Elasticsearch Cookbook

This cookbook will install Elasticsearch and configure it. Only the very basic functionality are covered:

• install the ES package (it should be available on the APT repos);
• adjust the configuration files through the templates;

Requirements

breaking changes

Till version '0.1.10' this cookbook can be used with ES up to version 1.7.x. In order to use ES version 2.x it is necessary to use version '0.1.11'.

packages

• openjdk-7-jdk - Java is needed to run Elasticsearch (in this case the latest OpenJDK version).

Attributes

The default attributes are used:

• inside the ES Debian default file;
• elasticsearch.yml (default configuration file).

NOTE: The value of attributes related to threadpools, heap size and so on are based on the recommendations on the official guide. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/administration.html

Usage

elasticsearch::default

Just include elasticsearch in your node's run_list:

{
  "name":"my_node",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[elasticsearch]"
  ]
}