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".
Before this commit he tests always run bin/plugin as root which is somewhat
unrealistic and causes trouble (log files owned by root instead of
elasticsearch). After this commit `bin/plugin` runs as root when elasticsearch
is installed via the repository and as elasticsearch otherwise which is much
more realistic.
This also adds extra timeout to starting elasticsearch which is required
when all the plugins are installed. And it fixes up a problem with logging
elasticsearch's log if elasticsearch doesn't start which came up multiple
time while debugging this problem.
Also adds docs recommending running `bin/plugin` as the user that owns the
Elasticsearch files or root if installed with the packages.
Closes#13557
At the moment, when installing from an url, a user provides the plugin name on
the command line like:
* bin/plugin install [plugin-name] --url [url]
This can lead to problems when picking an already existing name from another
plugin, and can potentially overwrite plugins already installed with that name.
This, this PR introduces a mandatory `name` property to the plugin descriptor
file which replaces the name formerly provided by the user.
With the addition of the `name` property to the plugin descriptor file, the user
does not need to specify the plugin name any longer when installing from a file
or url. Because of this, all arguments to `plugin install` command are now
either treated as a symbolic name, a URL or a file without the need to specify
this with an explicit option.
The new syntax for `plugin install` is now:
bin/plugin install [name or url]
* downloads official plugin
bin/plugin install analysis-kuromoji
* downloads github plugin
bin/plugin install lmenezes/elasticsearch-kopf
* install from URL or file
bin/plugin install http://link.to/foo.zip
bin/plugin install file:/path/to/foo.zip
If the argument does not parse to a valid URL, it is assumed to be a name and the
download location is resolved like before. Regardless of the source location of
the plugin, it is extracted to a temporary directory and the `name` property from
the descriptor file is used to determine the final install location.
Relates to #12715
* Centralised plugin docs in docs/plugins/
* Moved integrations into same docs
* Moved community clients into the clients section of the docs
* Removed docs/community
Closes#11734Closes#11724Closes#11636Closes#11635Closes#11632Closes#11630Closes#12046Closes#12438Closes#12579
Clinton Gormley
Jason Tedor
Jim Ferenczi
David Pilato
Andrzej Wisłowski
Tanguy Leroux
Kevin Kirsche
Nik Everett
Christoph Büscher