Controlling cluster rebalancing
By default, Elasticsearch tries to keep the shards and their replicas evenly balanced across the cluster. Such behavior is good in most cases, but there are times when we want to control this behavior—for example, during rolling restarts. We don't want to rebalance the entire cluster when one or two nodes are restarted. In this section, we will look at how to avoid cluster rebalance and control this process' behavior in depth.
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