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
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 removes legacy checks for unsupported an environment
variable and unsupported system properties. This environment variable
and these system properties have not been supported since 1.x so it is
safe to stop checking for the existence of these settings.
Relates #25809
Today we enable users to customize the environment through the use of
ES_INCLUDE. This made sense for legacy reasons when we did not have
nicities like jvm.options (so dumped JVM options in the default include
script) and somewhat duplicates some of the functionality that we will
need from a dedicated environment script. This commit removes support
for ES_INCLUDE as a first step towards a dedicated include script.
Relates #25804
This commit removes the environment variable ES_JVM_OPTIONS that allows
the jvm.options file to sit separately from the rest of the config
directory. Instead, we use the CONF_DIR environment variable for custom
configuration location just as we do for the other configuration files.
Relates #25679
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
This commit removes path.conf as a valid setting and replaces it with a
command-line flag for specifying a non-default path for configuration.
Relates #25392
The environment variable ES_JVM_OPTIONS allows end-users to specify a
custom location for the jvm.options file. Unfortunately, this
environment variable is not exported from the SysV init scripts. This
commit addresses this issue, and includes a test that ES_JVM_OPTIONS and
ES_JAVA_OPTS work for the SysV init packages.
Relates #21445
On ubuntu 14.04, which uses upstart, where as our debian package uses
sysvinit, there is no stdout/stderr message printed when starting up,
because the start-stop-daemon swallows it.
As Elasticsearch is started to daemonize, we can remove the background
flag from the start-stop-daemon and thus see, if the system does not have
enough memory for starting up - something that happens often on VMs, since
Elasticsearch 5.0 uses 2gb by default instead of one.
Relates #21300
Relates #12716
Today when parsing settings during bootstrap, we add a system property
for every Elasticsearch setting. Additionally, settings can be set via
system properties. This commit simplifies this situation.
- settings are no longer propogated to system properties
- system properties can not be used to set settings
- the "es." prefix on settings is no longer required (nor permitted)
- test logging has a dedicated system property (tests.logger.level)
Relates #18198
Today when restarting Elasticsearch using the start-stop-daemon on
Debian-based systems using System V init, we sleep for one second
between the process successfully stopping and starting the process
again. This sleep is unnecessary as the stop function retries forever
until the previous instance successfully terminates. This commit removes
that unncessary sleep.
Relates #17966
Exit with proper exit code (1) and an error message if elasticsearch
executable binary does not exists or has insufficient permissions to
execute.
Squashed commit of the following:
commit 9768d316303418ba4f9c96d3f87c376048a1b1bc
Author: Puru <tuladharpuru@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Apr 22 23:26:47 2016 +0545
Fixed ES_HOME typo
commit 79a2b0394297f8b02b6f71b71ba35ff79f1a684e
Author: Puru <tuladharpuru@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Apr 10 11:00:24 2016 +0545
Improve elasticsearch startup script test
Added improvement as per conversation in https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/17082#issuecomment-206459613
commit 7be38e1fefd4baa6ccdbdc14745c00f6dc052e0c
Author: Puru <tuladharpuru@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Mar 23 13:23:52 2016 +0545
Add elasticsearch startup script test
The test ensures that elasticsearch startup script exists and is executable.
commit d10eed5c08260fa9c158a4487bbb3103a8d867ed
Author: Puru <tuladharpuru@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Mar 23 12:30:25 2016 +0545
Fixed IF syntax and failure message
commit 6dc66f616545572485b4d43bee05a4cbbf1bed72
Author: Puru <tuladharpuru@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Mar 12 11:08:11 2016 +0545
Fix exit code
Exit with proper exit code (1) and an error message if elasticsearch executable binary does not exists or has insufficient permissions to execute.
This commit adds a new configuration file jvm.options to centralize and
simplify management of JVM options. This separates the configuration of
the JVM from the packaging scripts (bin/elasticsearch*, bin/service.bat,
and init.d/elasticsearch) simplifying end-user operational management of
custom JVM options.
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".
It is rarely used and was not consistently handled by different distributions anyway.
This commit also adds a test for specifying CONF_DIR when installing plugins and
starting elasticsearch.
relates to #12712 and #12954closes#5329closes#13715
Only the debian init script did JAVA_HOME detection. Everything else just
relied on `bin/elasticsearch`'s `which java` style detection. This strips
the detection from the debian init script so its like the rpm init script.
Closes#13403
Adds an explicit description the RPM package so it doesn't inherit the description from the POM.
Closes#12550
Also, modified descriptions for deb and rpm packages to be the same and to reference the documentation rather than listing features that are out of date.
When installed as a service with a DEB or RPM package, we should gently wait for elasticsearch to stop (flushing indices on closing can take some time) and never kill the process.
Closes#11248
This change creates a proper `distribution` modules in which we have today packaging for
all of our four current packages:
* zip
* tar.gz
* rpm
* deb
Licenes have moved into the distribution project as well. So have the config/ and the bin/ directory
from the core/ project.
The RPM package is now built, if rpmbuild exists.
The bats tests have been moved as well.
Also the zip distribution now executes the REST integration tests.
Jason Tedor
Lee Hinman
Alexander Reelsen
Danilo Vaz
Joe Hillenbrand
Nik Everett
Laurent Defert
Rhommel Lamas
Britta Weber
Colin Goodheart-Smithe
Tanguy Leroux