A voting-only master-eligible node is a node that can participate in master elections but will not act
as a master in the cluster. In particular, a voting-only node can help elect another master-eligible
node as master, and can serve as a tiebreaker in elections. High availability (HA) clusters require at
least three master-eligible nodes, so that if one of the three nodes is down, then the remaining two
can still elect a master amongst them-selves. This only requires one of the two remaining nodes to
have the capability to act as master, but both need to have voting powers. This means that one of
the three master-eligible nodes can be made as voting-only. If this voting-only node is a dedicated
master, a less powerful machine or a smaller heap-size can be chosen for this node. Alternatively, a
voting-only non-dedicated master node can play the role of the third master-eligible node, which
allows running an HA cluster with only two dedicated master nodes.
Closes#14340
Co-authored-by: David Turner <david.turner@elastic.co>
The description field of xpack featuresets is optionally part of the
xpack info api, when using the verbose flag. However, this information
is unnecessary, as it is better left for documentation (and the existing
descriptions describe anything meaningful). This commit removes the
description field from feature sets.
The data frame plugin allows users to create feature indexes by pivoting a source index. In a
nutshell this can be understood as reindex supporting aggregations or similar to the so called entity
centric indexing.
Full history is provided in: feature/data-frame-transforms
This commit switches to using a trial license in the docs tests that run
on the default distribution. This is needed so that docs tests can be
executed against non-basic features.
This brings the name in line with everywhere else and means that name
seen on the feature usage and `GET _xpack` APIs will match the plugin
name.
This change also removes `IndexLifcycle.NAME` since this was only used
to name the scheduler job and that can be done using
`XPackField.INDEX_LIFECYCLE` instead
Yannick Welsch
Mayya Sharipova
Ryan Ernst
Hendrik Muhs
Martijn van Groningen
Andrei Stefan
Tal Levy
Jason Tedor
Colin Goodheart-Smithe
Lisa Cawley