enrise / elasticsearch-formula

A Salt formula to install and configure ElasticSearch

Archived and unmaintained

This is an old repository that is no longer used or maintained. We advice to no longer use this repository.

Original README can be found below:

elasticsearch-formula

This formula will install the latest stable version of Elasticsearch from the official repo.

Compatibility

This formula currently only works on Debian-based systems (Debian, Ubuntu etc).

Contributing

Pull requests for other OSes and bug fixes are more than welcome.

Usage

Include "elasticsearch" in your project for the "full stack". Optionally you can select which states you require. If you don't have java running yet, you must include "elasticsearch.java"

Configuration

The included pillar.example shows the available options.

elasticsearch-formula's Issues

Initial provisioning of elasticsearch doesn't work

On the first provision of a machine that has elasticsearch enabled, the service won't start. After a second run it works just fine.

----------
          ID: elasticsearch
    Function: service.running
      Result: False
     Comment: Service elasticsearch has been enabled, and is dead
     Started: 16:27:08.634264
    Duration: 144.244 ms
     Changes:   
              ----------
              elasticsearch:
                  True

Pillar:

elasticsearch:
  version: 1.4.5
  repo_version: 1.4

Unusual install behaviour

I recently noticed some unusual behaviour, when setting up ES on a fresh Ubuntu 14.04.02 LTS VM, the pkg requirement for "default-jre-headless" wasn't found. It's in the repo, and I could manually install it, but afterwards, the requisites not found issue still popped up. By commenting out

require:
pkg: default-jre-headless

in install.sls, it worked. It seems that somehow, the minion wasn't able to find or resolve the dependency. As a test, I removed default-jre-headless and elasticsearch, and did a new highstate with the pkg requirement commented out, and it resolved all by itself.

If there is no reason other than 'completeness' for that pkg to be required, I'd like to remove it (and put in a PR).

Update Java dependency

@Enrise/matchminds what do you think about moving/copying your implementation of installing Oracle 8 Java and the JRE extension into this formula?

Elastic advices (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/_installation.html) to use this, so why not make it default.