Chapter 2. Downloading and Setting Up
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Downloading and installing ElasticSearch
- Setting up networking
- Setting up a node
- Setting up for Linux systems
- Setting up different node types
- Installing plugins in ElasticSearch
- Installing a plugin manually
- Removing a plugin
- Changing logging settings
Introduction
This chapter explains how to install and configure ElasticSearch, from a single developer machine to a big cluster, giving you hints on how to improve performance and skip misconfiguration errors.
There are different options to install ElasticSearch and set up a working environment for development and production.
When testing out ElasticSearch for a development cluster, the configuration tool does not require ...
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