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Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786465580
Length 696 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Alberto Paro Alberto Paro
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
1. Getting Started 2. Downloading and Setup FREE CHAPTER 3. Managing Mappings 4. Basic Operations 5. Search 6. Text and Numeric Queries 7. Relationships and Geo Queries 8. Aggregations 9. Scripting 10. Managing Clusters and Nodes 11. Backup and Restore 12. User Interfaces 13. Ingest 14. Java Integration 15. Scala Integration 16. Python Integration 17. Plugin Development 18. Big Data Integration

Installing plugins in Elasticsearch


One of the main features of Elasticsearch is the possibility to extend it with plugins. Plugins extend Elasticsearch features and functionalities in several ways.

In Elasticsearch 5.x, the plugins are native plugins--they are jars files that contain application code. They are used for:

  • ScriptEngine (JavaScript, Python, Scala, and Ruby)

  • Custom Analyzers, tokenizers, and scoring

  • REST entry points

  • Ingestion pipeline stages

  • Supporting new storages (Hadoop)

Getting ready

You need a working Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe and a prompt/shell to execute commands in Elasticsearch install directory.

How to do it...

Elasticsearch provides a script for automatic download and for installation of plugins in bin/directory called plugin.

The steps required to install a plugin are:

  • Call the plugin and install Elasticsearch command with the plugin name reference.

  • For installing an administrative interface for Elasticsearch...

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