JDK 9 has removed JVM options that were valid in JDK 8 (e.g., GC logging
flags) and replaced them with new flags that are not available in JDK
8. This means that a single JVM options file can no longer apply to JDK
8 and JDK 9, complicating development, complicating our packaging story,
and complicating operations. This commit extends the JVM options syntax
to specify the range of versions the option applies to. If the running
JVM matches the range of versions, the flag will be used to start the
JVM otherwise the flag will be ignored.
We implement this parser in Java for simplicity, and with this we start
our first step towards a Java launcher.
Relates #27675
The RPM and Debian packages depend on coreutils (for mktemp among
others). This commit adds an explicit package dependency on coreutils.
Relates #27660
For too long we have been groping around in the dark when faced with GC
issues because we rarely have GC logs at our disposal. This commit
enables GC logging by default out of the box.
Relates #27610
The JVM defaults to dumping the heap to the working directory of
Elasticsearch. For the RPM and Debian packages, this location is
/usr/share/elasticsearch. This directory is not writable by the
elasticsearch user, so by default heap dumps in this situation are
lost. This commit modifies the packaging for the RPM and Debian packages
to set the heap dump path to /var/lib/elasticsearch as the default
location for dumping the heap. This location is writable by the
elasticsearch user by default. We add documentation of this important
setting if /var/lib/elasticsearch is not suitable for receiving heap
dumps.
Relates #26755
The environment variable CONF_DIR was previously inconsistently used in
our packaging to customize the location of Elasticsearch configuration
files. The importance of this environment variable has increased
starting in 6.0.0 as it's now used consistently to ensure Elasticsearch
and all secondary scripts (e.g., elasticsearch-keystore) all use the
same configuration. The name CONF_DIR is there for legacy reasons yet
it's too generic. This commit renames CONF_DIR to ES_PATH_CONF.
Relates #26197
Today our shell scripts march on if they encounter an error during
execution. One place that this actually causes a problem is with the
Java version checker. What can happen is this: if the user botches their
installation so that the JavaVersionChecker can not be found on the
classpath, when we attempt to run the Java version checker, first an
error message that the class can not be found is displayed, and then we
print a message that their version of Java is not compatible; this
happens even if they are using a Java 8 installation. The problem is
that we should have immediately aborted when the class could not be
loaded. Since we do not exit when the shell script encounters an error,
we end up conflating failue to run the version check with a failed
version check. Instead, we really should abort the moment that one of
our scripts encounters an error. To do this, we make the following
changes:
- enable set -e and set -o pipefail
- make the Java version checker responsible for printing the error
message to the console
- remove the exit status check from the scripts
- actually on Windows, we still have to check the exit status because
there is no equivalent of set -e
- when we check for daemonization, we can no longer check the exit
status from grep because a failed grep will abort the script;
instead, we move the grep execution to be the condition for the if as
this does not trip the set -e failure conditions
- we should source elasticsearch-env before doing anything, so we move
the definition of parse_jvm_options below sourcing elasticsearch-env
- we make consistent all places where we use a subshell to use
backticks
Relates #26057
This commit introduces the elasticsearch-env script. The purpose of this
script is threefold:
- vastly simplify the various scripts used in Elasticsearch
- provide a script that can be included in other scripts in the
Elasticsearch ecosystem (e.g., plugins)
- correctly establish the environment for all scripts (e.g., so that
users can run `elasticsearch-keystore` from a package distribution
without having to worry about setting `CONF_DIR` first, otherwise the
keystore would be created in the wrong location)
Relates #25815
This commit changes the default heap size to 1 GB. Experimenting with
elasticsearch is often done on laptops, and 1 GB is much friendlier to
laptop memory. It does put more pressure on the gc, but the tradeoff is
a smaller default footprint. Users running in production can (and
should) adjust the heap size as necessary for their usecase.
This commit removes the default path settings for data and logs. With
this change, we now ship the packages with these settings set in the
elasticsearch.yml configuration file rather than going through the
default.path.data and default.path.logs dance that we went through in
the past.
Relates #25408
Removes the `distribution:bwc` project in favor of
`distribution:bwc-release-snapshot` and
`distribution:bwc-stable-snapshot`.
`distribution:bwc-release-snapshot` builds a snapshot of the
latest release branch (5.4 now) if needed for backwards
compatibility. `distribution:bwc-stable-snapshot` builds a
snapshot of the latest stable branch (5.x now) if needed for
backwards compatibility.
Some packaging tests depend on snapshot versions of packaging
distributions yet the build does not use a repository that includes such
distributions. While we could add such a repository, a better strategy
is to follow our approach for other BWC tests where we depend on a
locally-compiled archive distribution. This commit adds a local
compilation of packaging artifacts and substitutes these anywhere that
we would otherwise depend on a snapshot of these artifacts.
Relates #24861
When installing plugin permissions, we try to set the permissions on all
installed files ourselves because a umask from the user could violate
everything needed to get the permissions right. Sadly, directories were
not handled correctly at all and so we were still left with broken
installations with umasks like 0077. This commit fixes this issue, adds
a thorough unit test for the situation, and most importantly, adds a
test that sets the umask before installing the plugin.
Relates #24527
The plugin cli currently resides inside the elasticsearch jar. This
commit moves it into a plugin-cli jar. This is change alone is a no-op;
it does not change anything about what is loaded at runtime. But it will
allow easier testing (with fixtures in the future to test ES or maven
installation), as well as eventually not loading these classes when
starting elasticsearch.
After splitting integ tests into cluster configuration and the test
runner task, we still have dependencies of the test runner added as deps
of the cluster. This commit adds dependencies directly to the cluster,
so that the runner can have other dependencies independent of what is
needed for the cluster.
Adds the option for a plugin to specify extra directories containing notices
and licenses files to be incorporated into the overall notices file that is
generated for the plugin.
This can be useful, for example, where the plugin has a non-Java dependency
that itself incorporates many 3rd party components.
The current rest backcompat tests, which run against a mixed cluster of
5.x and 6.0 nodes, depend on snapshot builds of 5.x. However, this has
the potential for inconsistency that results in CI failures, and happens
quite often, whenever some backcompat logic is added to 5.x, but the bwc
test on master fails because the 5.x code has not yet been published as
a snapshot.
This change creates a git clone of the 5.x branch,
builds the zip distribution, and ties that into gradle substitutions for
the 5.x version.
Gradle's finalizedBy on tasks only ensures one task runs after another,
but not immediately after. This is problematic for our integration tests
since it allows multiple project's integ test clusters to be
simultaneously. While this has not been a problem thus far (gradle 2.13
happened to keep the finalizedBy tasks close enough that no clusters
were running in parallel), with gradle 3.3 the task graph generation has
changed, and numerous clusters may be running simultaneously, causing
memory pressure, and thus generally slower tests, or even failure if the
system has a limited amount of memory (eg in a vagrant host).
This commit reworks how integ tests are configured. It adds an
`integTestCluster` extension to gradle which is equivalent to the current
`integTest.cluster` and moves the rest test runner task to
`integTestRunner`. The `integTest` task is then just a dummy task,
which depends on the cluster runner task, as well as the cluster stop
task. This means running `integTest` in one project will both run the
rest tests, and shut down the cluster, before running `integTest` in
another project.
All plugins currently have their own licenses dir for the
dependencyLicenses task, but core disables this and has the check inside
distribution. This may have been better for maven, but for
gradle it makes more sense to just use the dependencyLicenses task that
automatically exists inside :core, and remove the hacked up version that
is inside distribution.
Today when running gradle clean
:distribution:(integ-test-zip|tar|zip):assemble, the created archive
distribution will be missing the empty plugins directory. This is
because the empty plugins folder created in the build folder for the
copy spec task is created during configuration and then is later wiped
away by the clean task. This commit addresses this issue, by pushing
creation of the directory out of the configuration phase.
Relates #21271
Today when installing Elasticsearch from an archive distribution (tar.gz
or zip), an empty plugins folder is not included. This means that if you
install Elasticsearch and immediately run elasticsearch-plugin list, you
will receive an error message about the plugins directory missing. While
the plugins directory would be created when starting Elasticsearch for
the first time, it would be better to just include an empty plugins
directory in the archive distributions. This commit makes this the
case. Note that the package distributions already include an empty
plugins folder.
Relates #21204
* Build: Remove old maven deploy support
This change removes the old maven deploy that we have in parallel to
maven-publish, and makes maven-publish fully work with publishing to
maven local. Using `gradle publishToMavenLocal` should be used to
publish to .m2.
Note that there is an unfortunate hack that means for
zip artifacts we must first create/publish a dummy pom file, and then
follow that with the real pom file. It would be nice to have the pom
file contains packaging=zip, but maven central then requires sources and
javadocs. But our zips are really just attached artifacts, so we already
set the packaging type to pom for our zip files. This change just works
around a limitation of the underlying maven publishing library which
silently skips attached artifacts when the packaging type is set to pom.
relates #20164closes#20375
* Remove unnecessary extra spacing
The integ-test-zip distribution did not specify a value for
path.conf. As such, it picked up the default value of
/etc/elasticsearch. This means that on machines that have this
directory, integration tests could fail because they would try to pick
up configuration from that directory rather than from the home directory
of the exploded distribution. This commit fixes this issue by specifying
a value of path.conf for the integ-test-zip distribution.
Relates #20271
This commit sets the default min heap equal to the default max
heap. This is to align the default out-of-box settings with the heap
size bootstrap check.
Some tests still start http implicitly or miss configuring the transport clients correctly.
This commit fixes all remaining tests and adds a depdenceny to `transport-netty` from
`qa/smoke-test-http` and `modules/reindex` since they need an http server running on the nodes.
This also moves all required permissions for netty into it's module and out of core.
Recent changes adds an extra bin/ directory that contains Windows bat files in the normal Bin folder of elasticsearch. For exemple the script elasticsearch.bat is located in bin/bin/elasticsearch.bat instead of bin/elasticsearch.bat.
The distributions had their own copies of these extra files, which was a
carry over from maven. This change removes the duplicate files and
copies them from the root of the project.
closes#18597
This change tweaks the metadata version associated with the deb and rpm
packages. For rpm, dashes are allowed in versions, so we can use the
version as it already exists. For rpm, dashes are not allowed, so this
uses underscores instead. This only affects prerelease versions (eg
alpha/beta/rc), and usually someone doesn't specify the version, so the
inconsistency doesn't matter that much.
This change makes `gradle run` use the full zip distribution. Arguably
we could make it do the same when run inside plugins, but I started out
with this simple change. I am open to moving it into the RunTask itself
so that plugins will do this as well.
After considerable discussion, we have elected to set the default min
heap to 256m and the default max heap to 2g. This is to balance the
desire for a good out-of-the-box performance experience (default max
heap of 2g) with a good out-of-the-box experience running on machines
with limited resources or running multiple instances on a single modern
developer laptop (default min heap of 1g).
Benchmarking with the geonames data set shows that Elasticsearch truly
needs 2g of heap or the heap is a bottleneck for indexing rates. If our
goal is to satisfy the out-of-the-box-experience, we should prioritize
the out-of-the-box performance experience. Thus, the default heap should
be 2g until smaller heaps are not the bottleneck for indexing small data
sets.
This commit fixes the Debian package requires clause for bash. For the
RPM it is okay to specify the binary, but for the Debian package the
package name must be specified.
Today we encourage users to set their minimum and maximum heap settings
equal to each other to prevent the heap from resizing. Yet, the default
heap settings do not start Elasticsearch in this fashion. This commit
addresses this discrepancy by setting the default min heap to '512m' and
the default max heap to the default min heap.
Relates #16334
This commit adds a hard requirement to the RPM and Debian packages for
/bin/bash to be present, and adds a note regarding this to the migration
docs.
Relates #18259
Jason Tedor
Ryan Ernst
Nik Everett
David Roberts
javanna
Tanguy Leroux
Simon Willnauer