Monthly Archives: June 2020
How to Set Master Nodes in Elasticsearch
Problem In order to horizontally scale an elasticsearch cluster in the cloud we need to make sure we don’t remove the master nodes if we scale the cluster down during times of less usage. We do this in Amazon Web Services by having two groups of compute instances. The first block is equal to the […]
Automatically Terraform Elasticsearch Cluster in AWS
Terraform Elasticsearch in Amazon Web Services The elasticsearch cluster needs to know the seed ip addresses, which makes it a little bit tricker to do in terraform. We actually need to do have two separate ec2 declarations. The second batch will grab the first batches ip addresses. The userdata automatically will install and set up […]