Elastic Search Installer

Installs Elastic Search as a service

Install elastic search

$ elastic_search_installer install my_cluster

Force Install

Force install elastic search in my_cluster (first remove installation directory)

$ elastic_search_installer install --force my_cluster

Help

$ elastic_search_installer help
$ elastic_search_installer help install

Full process to Install

Clone the repo

Change to /tmp and clone the repo:

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/asynchrony/elastic-search-installer.git
cd elastic-search-installer

Install elastic search and configure, change 'my_cluster_name' to be the elastic search cluster name of your choice

bin/elastic_search_installer install my_cluster_name

Install the init script

Install the init script, so the service starts up on boot:

# AS ROOT
cp /tmp/elastic-search-installer/scripts/elasticsearch-init-script.sh /etc/init.d/elasticsearch
chmod +x /etc/init.d/elasticsearch

double check the variables at the top of the init script. You may need to update some of them.

If running Debian or Ubuntu:

# AS ROOT
update-rc.d elasticsearch defaults

If running GENTOO:

# AS ROOT
rc-update add elasticsearch default

Otherwise:

# AS ROOT
chkconfig --add elasticsearch

Start Elastic Search

# AS ROOT
/etc/init.d/elasticsearch start
/etc/init.d/elasticsearch status

Test our installation

run the smoke test:

# Back to normal user!
bin/elastic_search_installer test

Make sure the output says that the smoke test passed.