DevOps Classroom Series – 24/Feb/2020

Elastic Search

• Is based on Apache Lucene
• Is a Document Database

Installation

• Create an Centos 7 instance with atleast 2 cores and 4 GB of RAM (t2.medium)
• Login into the centos instance and install java 1.8 using

sudo yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel -y

java -version

• Now follow instructions from here
• note:
  1. Follow package based installation [Install from rpm repository] not manual
  2. Run Elastic Search using Systemd
  3. To check if elastic search is running execute curl -X GET "localhost:9200/?pretty"