Chapter 1. Getting Started with ElasticSearch Cluster

The first thing we need to do with ElasticSearch is install it. As with many applications, you start with the installation and configuration, usually forgetting about the importance of those steps until something bad happens. In this chapter we will focus quite extensively on this part of ElasticSearch. Be advised that this chapter is not a definitive guide to every configuration option and parameter. Of course, we would like to describe them all, but if we did that we would have to write a book that is twice (or even more) the size of the one you are holding in your hands! In addition to that, ElasticSearch is like all the other software applications available today—it evolves every day and ...

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