Downgrading an Elasticsearch node to an earlier version is unsupported, because
we do not make any attempt to guarantee that a node can read any of the on-disk
data written by a future version. Yet today we do not actively prevent
downgrades, and sometimes users will attempt to roll back a failed upgrade with
an in-place downgrade and get into an unrecoverable state.
This change adds the current version of the node to the node metadata file, and
checks the version found in this file against the current version at startup.
If the node cannot be sure of its ability to read the on-disk data then it
refuses to start, preserving any on-disk data in its upgraded state.
This change also adds a command-line tool to overwrite the node metadata file
without performing any version checks, to unsafely bypass these checks and
recover the historical and lenient behaviour.
The migrate tool was added when the native realm was created, to aid
users in converting from file realms that were per node, into the
cluster managed native realm. While this tool was useful at the time,
users should now be using the native realm directly. This commit
deprecates the tool, to be removed in a followup for 8.0.
Added documentation for node repurpose tool and included documentation on how to repurpose nodes safely. Adjusted order of tools in `elasticsearch-node` tool since the repurpose tool is most likely to be used.
Co-Authored-By: David Turner <david.turner@elastic.co>
Improve the documentation of parameter --pass of elasticsearch-certutil
Backport of: #40137
Co-Authored-By: Diego Cardozo Sandrim <diegocsandrim@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Vigneash Sundar <vikene@users.noreply.github.com>
This commit, mostly authored by @DaveCTurner,
adds documentation for elasticsearch-node tool #37696.
(cherry picked from commit 09425d5a5158c2d3fdad794411b3bbc4bba47b15)
* Adding new MonitoredSystem for APM server
* Teaching Monitoring template utils about APM server monitoring indices
* Documenting new monitoring index for APM server
* Adding monitoring index template for APM server
* Copy pasta typo
* Removing metrics.libbeat.config section from mapping
* Adding built-in user and role for APM server user
* Actually define the role :)
* Adding missing import
* Removing index template and system ID for apm server
* Shortening line lengths
* Updating expected number of built-in users in integration test
* Removing "system" from role and user names
* Rearranging users to make tests pass
Lisa Cawley
Alex Pang
David Turner
Ryan Ernst
James Rodewig
Henning Andersen
Tim Vernum
Andrey Ershov
Kazuhiro Sera
Vladimir Dolzhenko
Shaunak Kashyap