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Author SHA1 Message Date
James Rodewig cde5b7d2b3
[DOCS] Relocate discovery module content (#56611) (#57454)
* Moves `Discovery and cluster formation` content from `Modules` to
`Set up Elasticsearch`.

* Combines `Adding and removing nodes` with `Adding nodes to your
  cluster`. Adds related redirect.

* Removes and redirects the `Modules` page.

* Rewrites parts of `Discovery and cluster formation` to remove `module`
  references and meta references to the section.
2020-06-01 14:13:13 -04:00
David Turner 69b78f7f8a "Adding nodes" instructions only work on localhost (#52677)
The introductory sections of the reference manual contains some simplified
instructions for adding a node to the cluster. Unfortunately they are a little
too simplified and only really work for clusters running on `localhost`. If you
try and follow these instructions for a distributed cluster then the new node
will, confusingly, auto-bootstrap itself into a distinct one-node cluster.

Multiple nodes running on localhost is a valid config, of course, but we should
spell out that these instructions are really only for experimentation and that
it takes a bit more work to add nodes to a distributed cluster. This commit
does so.

Also, the "important config" instructions for discovery say that you MUST set
`discovery.seed_hosts` whereas in fact it is fine to ignore this setting and
use a dynamic discovery mechanism instead. This commit weakens this statement
and links to the docs for dynamic discovery mechanisms.

Finally, this section is also overloaded with some technical details that are
not important for this context and are adequately covered elsewhere, and
completely fails to note that the default discovery port is 9300. This commit
addresses this.
2020-02-27 09:18:37 +00:00
Lisa Cawley 17b0aa3f31
[DOCS] Intro for adding nodes (#37202) 2019-01-15 11:11:01 -08:00