Today, certain bootstrap properties are set and read via system
properties. This action-at-distance way of managing these properties is
rather confusing, and completely unnecessary. But another problem exists
with setting these as system properties. Namely, these system properties
are interpreted as Elasticsearch settings, not all of which are
registered. This leads to Elasticsearch failing to startup if any of
these special properties are set. Instead, these properties should be
kept as local as possible, and passed around as method parameters where
needed. This eliminates the action-at-distance way of handling these
properties, and eliminates the need to register these non-setting
properties. This commit does exactly that.
Additionally, today we use the "-D" command line flag to set the
properties, but this is confusing because "-D" is a special flag to the
JVM for setting system properties. This creates confusion because some
"-D" properties should be passed via arguments to the JVM (so via
ES_JAVA_OPTS), and some should be passed as arguments to
Elasticsearch. This commit changes the "-D" flag for Elasticsearch
settings to "-E".
- moves calculation of the delay to a single place (ReplicaShardAllocator)
- reduces coupling between GatewayAllocator and RoutingService
- in master failover situations, elapsed delay time is forgotten
Closes#14808
This adds the `cluster.routing.allocation.total_shards_per_node`
setting, which limits the total number of shards across all indices on
each node. It defaults to -1 and can be dynamically configured.
Resolves#14456
Allocation filtering by IP only works today using the node host address. But in some cases, you might want to filter using the publish address which could be different.
Change the default delayed allocation timeout from 0 (no delayed allocation) to 1m. The value came from a test of having a node with 50 shards being indexed into (so beefy translog requiring flush on shutdown), then shutting it down and starting it back up and waiting for it to join the cluster. This took, on a slow machine, about 30s.
The value is conservatively low and does not try to address a virtual machine / OS restart for now, in order to not have the affect of node going away and users being concerned that shards are not being allocated to the rest of the cluster as a result of that. The setting can always be changed in order to increase the delayed allocation if needed.
closes#12166
Simon Willnauer
Jason Tedor
Boaz Leskes
Dongjoon Hyun
Yannick Welsch
Lee Hinman
David Pilato
Clinton Gormley
Shay Banon