[[discovery-ec2]] === EC2 Discovery Plugin The EC2 discovery plugin uses the https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java[AWS API] for unicast discovery. [[discovery-ec2-install]] [float] ==== Installation This plugin can be installed using the plugin manager: [source,sh] ---------------------------------------------------------------- sudo bin/plugin install discovery-ec2 ---------------------------------------------------------------- The plugin must be installed on every node in the cluster, and each node must be restarted after installation. [[discovery-ec2-remove]] [float] ==== Removal The plugin can be removed with the following command: [source,sh] ---------------------------------------------------------------- sudo bin/plugin remove discovery-ec2 ---------------------------------------------------------------- The node must be stopped before removing the plugin. [[discovery-ec2-usage]] ==== Getting started with AWS The plugin will default to using http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html[IAM Role] credentials for authentication. These can be overridden by, in increasing order of precedence, system properties `aws.accessKeyId` and `aws.secretKey`, environment variables `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` and `AWS_SECRET_KEY`, or the elasticsearch config using `cloud.aws.access_key` and `cloud.aws.secret_key`: [source,yaml] ---- cloud: aws: access_key: AKVAIQBF2RECL7FJWGJQ secret_key: vExyMThREXeRMm/b/LRzEB8jWwvzQeXgjqMX+6br ---- [[discovery-ec2-usage-security]] ===== Transport security By default this plugin uses HTTPS for all API calls to AWS endpoints. If you wish to configure HTTP you can set `cloud.aws.protocol` in the elasticsearch config. You can optionally override this setting per individual service via: `cloud.aws.ec2.protocol` or `cloud.aws.s3.protocol`. [source,yaml] ---- cloud: aws: protocol: https ec2: protocol: https ---- In addition, a proxy can be configured with the `proxy_host` and `proxy_port` settings (note that protocol can be `http` or `https`): [source,yaml] ---- cloud: aws: protocol: https proxy_host: proxy1.company.com proxy_port: 8083 ---- You can also set different proxies for `ec2` and `s3`: [source,yaml] ---- cloud: aws: s3: proxy_host: proxy1.company.com proxy_port: 8083 ec2: proxy_host: proxy2.company.com proxy_port: 8083 ---- [[discovery-ec2-usage-region]] ===== Region The `cloud.aws.region` can be set to a region and will automatically use the relevant settings for both `ec2` and `s3`. The available values are: * `us-east` (`us-east-1`) * `us-west` (`us-west-1`) * `us-west-1` * `us-west-2` * `ap-southeast` (`ap-southeast-1`) * `ap-southeast-1` * `ap-southeast-2` * `ap-northeast` (`ap-northeast-1`) * `eu-west` (`eu-west-1`) * `eu-central` (`eu-central-1`) * `sa-east` (`sa-east-1`) * `cn-north` (`cn-north-1`) [[discovery-ec2-usage-signer]] ===== EC2 Signer API If you are using a compatible EC2 service, they might be using an older API to sign the requests. You can set your compatible signer API using `cloud.aws.signer` (or `cloud.aws.ec2.signer`) with the right signer to use. [[discovery-ec2-discovery]] ==== EC2 Discovery ec2 discovery allows to use the ec2 APIs to perform automatic discovery (similar to multicast in non hostile multicast environments). Here is a simple sample configuration: [source,yaml] ---- discovery: type: ec2 ---- You must also set `cloud.aws.region` if you are not using default AWS region. See <> for details. The ec2 discovery is using the same credentials as the rest of the AWS services provided by this plugin (`repositories`). See <> for details. The following are a list of settings (prefixed with `discovery.ec2`) that can further control the discovery: `groups`:: Either a comma separated list or array based list of (security) groups. Only instances with the provided security groups will be used in the cluster discovery. (NOTE: You could provide either group NAME or group ID.) `host_type`:: The type of host type to use to communicate with other instances. Can be one of `private_ip`, `public_ip`, `private_dns`, `public_dns`. Defaults to `private_ip`. `availability_zones`:: Either a comma separated list or array based list of availability zones. Only instances within the provided availability zones will be used in the cluster discovery. `any_group`:: If set to `false`, will require all security groups to be present for the instance to be used for the discovery. Defaults to `true`. `ping_timeout`:: How long to wait for existing EC2 nodes to reply during discovery. Defaults to `3s`. If no unit like `ms`, `s` or `m` is specified, milliseconds are used. [[discovery-ec2-permissions]] ===== Recommended EC2 Permissions EC2 discovery requires making a call to the EC2 service. You'll want to setup an IAM policy to allow this. You can create a custom policy via the IAM Management Console. It should look similar to this. [source,js] ---- { "Statement": [ { "Action": [ "ec2:DescribeInstances" ], "Effect": "Allow", "Resource": [ "*" ] } ], "Version": "2012-10-17" } ---- [[discovery-ec2-filtering]] ===== Filtering by Tags The ec2 discovery can also filter machines to include in the cluster based on tags (and not just groups). The settings to use include the `discovery.ec2.tag.` prefix. For example, setting `discovery.ec2.tag.stage` to `dev` will only filter instances with a tag key set to `stage`, and a value of `dev`. Several tags set will require all of those tags to be set for the instance to be included. One practical use for tag filtering is when an ec2 cluster contains many nodes that are not running elasticsearch. In this case (particularly with high `ping_timeout` values) there is a risk that a new node's discovery phase will end before it has found the cluster (which will result in it declaring itself master of a new cluster with the same name - highly undesirable). Tagging elasticsearch ec2 nodes and then filtering by that tag will resolve this issue. [[discovery-ec2-attributes]] ===== Automatic Node Attributes Though not dependent on actually using `ec2` as discovery (but still requires the cloud aws plugin installed), the plugin can automatically add node attributes relating to ec2 (for example, availability zone, that can be used with the awareness allocation feature). In order to enable it, set `cloud.node.auto_attributes` to `true` in the settings. [[discovery-ec2-endpoint]] ===== Using other EC2 endpoint If you are using any EC2 api compatible service, you can set the endpoint you want to use by setting `cloud.aws.ec2.endpoint` to your URL provider.