Azure Cloud Plugin for Elasticsearch ==================================== The Azure Cloud plugin allows to use Azure API for the unicast discovery mechanism. In order to install the plugin, run: ```sh bin/plugin -install elasticsearch/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/2.3.0 ``` You need to install a version matching your Elasticsearch version: | Elasticsearch | Azure Cloud Plugin| Docs | |------------------------|-------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | master | Build from source | See below | | es-1.x | Build from source | [2.5.0-SNAPSHOT](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/tree/es-1.x/#azure-cloud-plugin-for-elasticsearch) | | es-1.3 | Build from source | [2.4.0-SNAPSHOT](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/tree/es-1.3/#azure-cloud-plugin-for-elasticsearch) | | es-1.2 | 2.3.0 | [2.3.0](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/tree/v2.3.0/#azure-cloud-plugin-for-elasticsearch) | | es-1.1 | 2.2.0 | [2.2.0](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/tree/v2.2.0/#azure-cloud-plugin-for-elasticsearch) | | es-1.0 | 2.1.0 | [2.1.0](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/tree/v2.1.0/#azure-cloud-plugin-for-elasticsearch) | | es-0.90 | 1.0.0.alpha1 | [1.0.0.alpha1](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/tree/v1.0.0.alpha1/#azure-cloud-plugin-for-elasticsearch)| To build a `SNAPSHOT` version, you need to build it with Maven: ```bash mvn clean install plugin --install cloud-azure \ --url file:target/releases/elasticsearch-cloud-azure-X.X.X-SNAPSHOT.zip ``` Azure Virtual Machine Discovery =============================== Azure VM discovery allows to use the azure APIs to perform automatic discovery (similar to multicast in non hostile multicast environments). Here is a simple sample configuration: ``` cloud: azure: keystore: /path/to/keystore password: your_password_for_keystore subscription_id: your_azure_subscription_id service_name: your_azure_cloud_service_name discovery: type: azure # recommended # path.data: /mnt/resource/elasticsearch/data ``` How to start (short story) -------------------------- * Create Azure instances * Install Elasticsearch * Install Azure plugin * Modify `elasticsearch.yml` file * Start Elasticsearch How to start (long story) -------------------------- We will expose here one strategy which is to hide our Elasticsearch cluster from outside. With this strategy, only VM behind this same virtual port can talk to each other. That means that with this mode, you can use elasticsearch unicast discovery to build a cluster. Best, you can use the `elasticsearch-cloud-azure` plugin to let it fetch information about your nodes using azure API. ### Prerequisites Before starting, you need to have: * A [Windows Azure account](http://www.windowsazure.com/) * SSH keys and certificate * OpenSSL that isn't from MacPorts, specifically `OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014` doesn't seem to create a valid keypair for ssh. FWIW, `OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012` on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is known to work. You should follow [this guide](http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/linux-use-ssh-key/) to learn how to create or use existing SSH keys. If you have already did it, you can skip the following. Here is a description on how to generate SSH keys using `openssl`: ```sh # You may want to use another dir than /tmp cd /tmp openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout azure-private.key -out azure-certificate.pem chmod 600 azure-private.key azure-certificate.pem openssl x509 -outform der -in azure-certificate.pem -out azure-certificate.cer ``` Generate a keystore which will be used by the plugin to authenticate with a certificate all Azure API calls. ```sh # Generate a keystore (azurekeystore.pkcs12) # Transform private key to PEM format openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -nocrypt -in azure-private.key -inform PEM -out azure-pk.pem -outform PEM # Transform certificate to PEM format openssl x509 -inform der -in azure-certificate.cer -out azure-cert.pem cat azure-cert.pem azure-pk.pem > azure.pem.txt # You MUST enter a password! openssl pkcs12 -export -in azure.pem.txt -out azurekeystore.pkcs12 -name azure -noiter -nomaciter ``` Upload the generated key to Azure platform. **Important**: when prompted for a password, you need to enter a non empty one. See this [guide](http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/linux/how-to-guides/ssh-into-linux/) to have more details on how to create keys for Azure. Once done, you need to upload your certificate in Azure: * Go to the [management console](https://account.windowsazure.com/). * Sign in using your account. * Click on `Portal`. * Go to Settings (bottom of the left list) * On the bottom bar, click on `Upload` and upload your `azure-certificate.cer` file. You may want to use [Windows Azure Command-Line Tool](http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/nodejs/how-to-guides/command-line-tools/): * Install [NodeJS](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager), for example using homebrew on MacOS X: ```sh brew install node ``` * Install Azure tools: ```sh sudo npm install azure-cli -g ``` * Download and import your azure settings: ```sh # This will open a browser and will download a .publishsettings file azure account download # Import this file (we have downloaded it to /tmp) # Note, it will create needed files in ~/.azure. You can remove azure.publishsettings when done. azure account import /tmp/azure.publishsettings ``` ### Creating your first instance You need to have a storage account available. Check [Azure Blob Storage documentation](http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/how-to-guides/blob-storage/#create-account) for more information. You will need to choose the operating system you want to run on. To get a list of official available images, run: ```sh azure vm image list ``` Let's say we are going to deploy an Ubuntu image on an extra small instance in West Europe: * Azure cluster name: `azure-elasticsearch-cluster` * Image: `b39f27a8b8c64d52b05eac6a62ebad85__Ubuntu-13_10-amd64-server-20130808-alpha3-en-us-30GB` * VM Name: `myesnode1` * VM Size: `extrasmall` * Location: `West Europe` * Login: `elasticsearch` * Password: `password1234!!` Using command line: ```sh azure vm create azure-elasticsearch-cluster \ b39f27a8b8c64d52b05eac6a62ebad85__Ubuntu-13_10-amd64-server-20130808-alpha3-en-us-30GB \ --vm-name myesnode1 \ --location "West Europe" \ --vm-size extrasmall \ --ssh 22 \ --ssh-cert /tmp/azure-certificate.pem \ elasticsearch password1234!! ``` You should see something like: ``` info: Executing command vm create + Looking up image + Looking up cloud service + Creating cloud service + Retrieving storage accounts + Configuring certificate + Creating VM info: vm create command OK ``` Now, your first instance is started. You need to install Elasticsearch on it. > **Note on SSH** > > You need to give the private key and username each time you log on your instance: > >```sh >ssh -i ~/.ssh/azure-private.key elasticsearch@myescluster.cloudapp.net >``` > > But you can also define it once in `~/.ssh/config` file: > >``` >Host *.cloudapp.net > User elasticsearch > StrictHostKeyChecking no > UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null > IdentityFile ~/.ssh/azure-private.key >``` ```sh # First, copy your keystore on this machine scp /tmp/azurekeystore.pkcs12 azure-elasticsearch-cluster.cloudapp.net:/home/elasticsearch # Then, connect to your instance using SSH ssh azure-elasticsearch-cluster.cloudapp.net ``` Once connected, install Elasticsearch: ```sh # Install Latest Java version # Read http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/install-oracle-java-jdk-7-in-ubuntu-via.html for details sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer # If you want to install OpenJDK instead # sudo apt-get update # sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless # Download Elasticsearch curl -s https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.0.0.deb -o elasticsearch-1.0.0.deb # Prepare Elasticsearch installation sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-1.0.0.deb ``` Check that elasticsearch is running: ```sh curl http://localhost:9200/ ``` This command should give you a JSON result: ```javascript { "status" : 200, "name" : "Living Colossus", "version" : { "number" : "1.0.0", "build_hash" : "a46900e9c72c0a623d71b54016357d5f94c8ea32", "build_timestamp" : "2014-02-12T16:18:34Z", "build_snapshot" : false, "lucene_version" : "4.6" }, "tagline" : "You Know, for Search" } ``` ### Install elasticsearch cloud azure plugin ```sh # Stop elasticsearch sudo service elasticsearch stop # Install the plugin sudo /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/plugin -install elasticsearch/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/2.0.0 # Configure it sudo vi /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml ``` And add the following lines: ```yaml # If you don't remember your account id, you may get it with `azure account list` cloud: azure: keystore: /home/elasticsearch/azurekeystore.pkcs12 password: your_password_for_keystore subscription_id: your_azure_subscription_id service_name: your_azure_cloud_service_name discovery: type: azure # Recommended path.data: /mnt/resource/elasticsearch/data ``` Restart elasticsearch: ```sh sudo service elasticsearch start ``` If anything goes wrong, check your logs in `/var/log/elasticsearch`. Scaling Out! ------------ You need first to create an image of your previous machine. Disconnect from your machine and run locally the following commands: ```sh # Shutdown the instance azure vm shutdown myesnode1 # Create an image from this instance (it could take some minutes) azure vm capture myesnode1 esnode-image --delete # Note that the previous instance has been deleted (mandatory) # So you need to create it again and BTW create other instances. azure vm create azure-elasticsearch-cluster \ esnode-image \ --vm-name myesnode1 \ --location "West Europe" \ --vm-size extrasmall \ --ssh 22 \ --ssh-cert /tmp/azure-certificate.pem \ elasticsearch password1234!! ``` > **Note:** It could happen that azure changes the endpoint public IP address. > DNS propagation could take some minutes before you can connect again using > name. You can get from azure the IP address if needed, using: > > ```sh > # Look at Network `Endpoints 0 Vip` > azure vm show myesnode1 > ``` Let's start more instances! ```sh for x in $(seq 2 10) do echo "Launching azure instance #$x..." azure vm create azure-elasticsearch-cluster \ esnode-image \ --vm-name myesnode$x \ --vm-size extrasmall \ --ssh $((21 + $x)) \ --ssh-cert /tmp/azure-certificate.pem \ --connect \ elasticsearch password1234!! done ``` If you want to remove your running instances: ``` azure vm delete myesnode1 ``` Azure Repository ================ To enable Azure repositories, you have first to set your azure storage settings: ``` cloud: azure: storage_account: your_azure_storage_account storage_key: your_azure_storage_key ``` The Azure repository supports following settings: * `container`: Container name. Defaults to `elasticsearch-snapshots` * `base_path`: Specifies the path within container to repository data. Defaults to empty (root directory). * `concurrent_streams`: Throttles the number of streams (per node) preforming snapshot operation. Defaults to `5`. * `chunk_size`: Big files can be broken down into chunks during snapshotting if needed. The chunk size can be specified in bytes or by using size value notation, i.e. `1g`, `10m`, `5k`. Defaults to `64m` (64m max) * `compress`: When set to `true` metadata files are stored in compressed format. This setting doesn't affect index files that are already compressed by default. Defaults to `false`. Some examples, using scripts: ```sh # The simpliest one $ curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup1' -d '{ "type": "azure" }' # With some settings $ curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup2' -d '{ "type": "azure", "settings": { "container": "backup_container", "base_path": "backups", "concurrent_streams": 2, "chunk_size": "32m", "compress": true } }' ``` Example using Java: ```java client.admin().cluster().preparePutRepository("my_backup3") .setType("azure").setSettings(ImmutableSettings.settingsBuilder() .put(AzureStorageService.Fields.CONTAINER, "backup_container") .put(AzureStorageService.Fields.CHUNK_SIZE, new ByteSizeValue(32, ByteSizeUnit.MB)) ).get(); ``` Repository validation rules --------------------------- According to the [containers naming guide](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd135715.aspx), a container name must be a valid DNS name, conforming to the following naming rules: * Container names must start with a letter or number, and can contain only letters, numbers, and the dash (-) character. * Every dash (-) character must be immediately preceded and followed by a letter or number; consecutive dashes are not permitted in container names. * All letters in a container name must be lowercase. * Container names must be from 3 through 63 characters long. Testing ======= Integrations tests in this plugin require working Azure configuration and therefore disabled by default. To enable tests prepare a config file elasticsearch.yml with the following content: ``` cloud: azure: account: "YOUR-AZURE-STORAGE-NAME" key: "YOUR-AZURE-STORAGE-KEY" ``` Replaces `account`, `key` with your settings. Please, note that the test will delete all snapshot/restore related files in the specified bucket. To run test: ```sh mvn -Dtests.azure=true -Dtests.config=/path/to/config/file/elasticsearch.yml clean test ``` License ------- This software is licensed under the Apache 2 license, quoted below. Copyright 2009-2014 Elasticsearch Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 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