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ElasticSearch Cookbook

By : Alberto Paro
Book Image

ElasticSearch Cookbook

By: Alberto Paro

Overview of this book

ElasticSearch is one of the most promising NoSQL technologies available and is built to provide a scalable search solution with built-in support for near real-time search and multi-tenancy. This practical guide is a complete reference for using ElasticSearch and covers 360 degrees of the ElasticSearch ecosystem. We will get started by showing you how to choose the correct transport layer, communicate with the server, and create custom internal actions for boosting tailored needs. Starting with the basics of the ElasticSearch architecture and how to efficiently index, search, and execute analytics on it, you will learn how to extend ElasticSearch by scripting and monitoring its behaviour. Step-by-step, this book will help you to improve your ability to manage data in indexing with more tailored mappings, along with searching and executing analytics with facets. The topics explored in the book also cover how to integrate ElasticSearch with Python and Java applications. This comprehensive guide will allow you to master storing, searching, and analyzing data with ElasticSearch.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
ElasticSearch Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Networking setup


Correctly setting up a networking is very important for your node and cluster.

As there are a lot of different install scenarios and networking issues in this recipe we will cover two kinds of networking setups:

  • Standard installation with autodiscovery working configuration

  • Forced IP configuration; used if it is not possible to use autodiscovery

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch installation and to know your current networking configuration (that is, IP).

How to do it...

For configuring networking, we will perform the steps as follows:

  1. Open the ElasticSearch configuration file with your favorite text editor.

    Using the standard ElasticSearch configuration file (config/elasticsearch.yml), your node is configured to bind on all your machine interfaces and does autodiscovery broadcasting events, that means it sends "signals" to every machine in the current LAN and waits for a response. If a node responds to it, they can join in a cluster.

    If another node is available in the...