Currently we suggesting users create a Node (using NodeBuilder in 2.x) to have a client that is capable of keeping up-to-date information. This is generally a bad idea as it means elasticsearch has no control over eg max heap size or gc settings, and is also problematic for users because they must deal with dependency collisions (and in 2.x+ dependencies of elasticsearch itself).
A better alternative, and what we should document, is to run a local elasticsearch server using bin/elasticsearch, and then use the transport client to connect to that local node. This local connection is virtually free, and allows the client code to be completely isolated from the elasticsearch process. Plugins are then also easy to deal with: just install them in elasticsearch as usual.
Related to #16679
This makes some minor improvements (does not fix all problems!)
It reorders unicast disco in elasticsearch.yml to be right after the network host,
for better locality.
It removes the warning (unreleased) about publish addresses, lets try to really discourage setting
that unless you need to (behind a proxy server). Most people should be fine with `network.host`
Finally it reorganizes the network docs page a bit:
We add a table of 4 "basic" settings at the very beginning:
* network.host
* discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts
* http.port
* transport.tcp.port
The first two being the most important, which addresses to bind and talk to, and the other two
being the port numbers.
The rest of the stuff I tried to simplify and reorder under "advanced" headers.
This is just a quick stab, I still think we need more effort into this thing, but we gotta start somewhere.
* Allow for multiple host specifications (e.g. _en0_,192.168.1.2,_site_).
* Add _site_ and _global_ scopes as counterparts to _local_.
* Warn on heuristic selection of publish address.
* Remove the arbitrary _non_loopback_ setting.
Closes#13954
When running in GCE platform, an instance has access to:
http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/network-interfaces/0/ip
Which gives back the private IP address, for example `10.240.0.2`.
http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/network-interfaces/0/externalIp
Gives back the public Ip address, for example `130.211.108.21`.
As we have for `ec2`, we can support new network host settings:
* `_gce:privateIp:X_`: The private IP address of the machine for a given network interface.
* `_gce:hostname_`: The hostname of the machine.
* `_gce_`: Same as `_gce:privateIp:0_` (recommended).
Closes#13605.
Closes#13590.
BTW resolveIfPossible now throws IOException so code is also updated for ec2 discovery and
some basic tests have been added.
With 2.0, we now bind to `localhost` by default instead of binding to the network card and use its IP address.
When the discovery plugin gets from AWS API the list of nodes that should form the cluster, this list is pinged then. But as each node is bound to `localhost`, ping does not get an answer and the node elects itself as the master node.
`network.host` must be set.
Closes#13589.
When elasticsearch is configured by interface (or default: loopback interfaces),
bind to all addresses on the interface rather than an arbitrary one.
If the publish address is not specified, default it from the bound addresses
based on the following sort ordering:
* ipv4/ipv6 (java.net.preferIPv4Stack, defaults to true)
* ordinary addresses
* site-local addresses
* link local addresses
* loopback addresses
One one address is published, and multicast is still always over ipv4: these
need to be future improvements.
Closes#12906Closes#12915
Squashed commit of the following:
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Author: Robert Muir <rmuir@apache.org>
Date: Mon Aug 17 14:45:33 2015 -0400
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Author: Robert Muir <rmuir@apache.org>
Date: Mon Aug 17 14:24:16 2015 -0400
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Date: Mon Aug 17 13:29:42 2015 -0400
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localhost all the way down
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Author: Robert Muir <rmuir@apache.org>
Date: Mon Aug 17 12:03:03 2015 -0400
fix docs, fix another bug in multicast (publish host = bad here!)
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Date: Mon Aug 17 11:50:49 2015 -0400
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Date: Mon Aug 17 11:49:35 2015 -0400
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Author: Robert Muir <rmuir@apache.org>
Date: Mon Aug 17 11:06:02 2015 -0400
Fix transport / interface code
Next up: multicast and then http
Allow to set the value default to network.tcp.no_delay and network.tcp.keep_alive so they won't be set at all, since on solaris, setting tcpNoDelay can actually cause failure
relates to #7115
David Pilato
Clinton Gormley
Dongjoon Hyun
Robert Muir
Lee Hinman
Shay Banon
Gaurav Arora