Elasticsearch workshop

Basic ElasticSearch hands-on workshop

Installation & Setup

Make sure the following items have been installed on your machine:
- Java 7 or 8
- Git (if you like a pretty interface to deal with git, try SourceTree)
- Maven
Install Oracle VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Install Vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html (on Mac and Windows the installer will make sure that vagrant command is known in the command prompt)
Clone this repository into your workspace
Open a command prompt, go to the elasticsearchworkshop folder and run
```
vagrant up
```
This will start up the vagrant box. The first time will take a while as it has to download the OS image, elasticsearch and other dependencies.

Shutting down the vagrant box can be done by typing
```
vagrant halt
```
You can restore the environment back to a clean, working state (in case things go south) by typing
```
vagrant provision
```
You can SSH into the virtual environment with
```
vagrant ssh
```
And when you're done playing around, you can remove all traces of it with
```
vagrant destroy
```
Import the maven projects into IDE of your choice
Run the tests of wes-core module to verify everything has been setup correctly by typing
```
cd wes-core
mvn clean install
```

If the tests pass, you are ready to start with the exercises.

All the exercises are located in the wes-exercises module.

Basic exercises are located in the following package:
```
be.ordina.wes.exercises.basics
```

Advanced search exercises:

be.ordina.wes.exercises.advanced_search

Solutions are located on the solutions branch

You can access the ElasticHQ plugin at http://localhost.:9200/_plugin/HQ (for checking server state etc.)

or the Marvel plugin at http://localhost.:9200/_plugin/marvel (free only for development)

IntelliJ users: In some rare cases you might need to set the working directory in the running configurations to $MODULE_DIR$
Windows users: If you're running a 64bit Vagrant box, you may need to enable hardware virtualization (VT-x) in your BIOS. To avoid this issue, we'll be using a 32bit box for this workshop.