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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

Installing a plugin manually


Sometimes your plugin is not available online or the standard installation fails, so you need to install your plugin manually.

Getting ready

You need an installed ElasticSearch server.

How to do it...

We assume that your plugin is named awesome and it's packed in a file called awesome.zip.

The steps required to execute a manually installed plugin are:

  1. Copy your zip file in the plugins directory in your ElasticSearch home installation.

  2. If the directory, named plugins, doesn't exist, create it.

  3. Unzip the contents of the plugin in the plugins directory.

  4. Remove the zip archive to clean up unused files.

How it works...

Every ElasticSearch plugin is contained in a directory (usually named as the plugin name).

If the plugin is a site one, the plugin should contain a directory called _site, which contains the static files that must be served by the server. If the plugin is a binary one, the plugin directory should be filled with one or more jar files.

When ElasticSearch starts, it...