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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