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Default ec2 endpoint is ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (#30323) 

Today our docs claim that the `discovery-ec2` plugin auto-detects the EC2
endpoint, but this is not the case. This fixes these docs.

Closes #27464.
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David Pilato 2018-12-14 10:30:39 +01:00 committed by David Turner
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[[discovery-ec2-usage]]
==== Getting started with AWS
The plugin provides a hosts provider for zen discovery named `ec2`. This hosts provider
finds other Elasticsearch instances in EC2 through AWS metadata. Authentication is done using
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html[IAM Role]
credentials by default. The only necessary configuration change to enable the plugin
is setting the unicast host provider for zen discovery:
The plugin provides a hosts provider for zen discovery named `ec2`. This hosts
provider finds other Elasticsearch instances in EC2 through AWS metadata.
Authentication is done using
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html[IAM
Role] credentials by default. To enable the plugin, set the unicast host
provider for Zen discovery to `ec2`:
[source,yaml]
----
@ -51,9 +52,9 @@ Those that must be stored in the keystore are marked as `Secure`.
`endpoint`::
The ec2 service endpoint to connect to. This will be automatically
figured out by the ec2 client based on the instance location, but
can be specified explicitly. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region.
The ec2 service endpoint to connect to. See
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region. This
defaults to `ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com`.
`protocol`::