Chapter 9. Data Transformation and Federated Search

In the last chapter, we covered most of the topics related to Elasticsearch cluster administration. We started with describing different types of nodes and how to configure them, and then looked into Elasticsearch discovery and recovery modules in detail. Next, we covered the cat API of Elasticsearch, which is very useful for finding out node/cluster/index stats in a very readable format. Finally, we discussed snapshot and restore APIs which allow you to perform incremental backups to various repositories like shared file systems or the cloud, and to restore the snapshots back into the cluster.

In this chapter, we will cover one of the most exciting features introduced in Elasticsearch: ingest ...

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