# Elasticsearch Chef Cookbook [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/elastic/cookbook-elasticsearch.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/elastic/cookbook-elasticsearch) [![Cookbook Version](https://img.shields.io/cookbook/v/elasticsearch.svg)](https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/elasticsearch)[![Build Status](https://jenkins-01.eastus.cloudapp.azure.com/job/elasticsearch-cookbook/badge/icon)](https://jenkins-01.eastus.cloudapp.azure.com/job/elasticsearch-cookbook/) **Please** review the [frequently asked questions](FAQ.md) and [contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) before opening issues or submitting pull requests. ## Looking for Elasticsearch 5.x or 6.x? Please [check out the previous 3.x.x releases](https://github.com/elastic/cookbook-elasticsearch/tree/3.x.x) of this cookbook. Please consider pinning your cookbook to '~> 3.0' for support for Elasticsearch 6 and earlier, or '~> 4.0' release for Elasticsearch 6 and beyond. ## Attributes Please consult [attributes/default.rb](attributes/default.rb) for a large list of checksums for many different archives and package files of different elasticsearch versions. Both recipes and resources/providers here use those default values. You may use `%s` in your URL and this cookbook will use sprintf/format to insert the version parameter as a string into your download_url. |Name|Default|Other values| |----|-------|------------| | For Elasticsearch < 7: || |`default['elasticsearch']['download_urls']['debian']`|[See values](attributes/default.rb).|`%s` will be replaced with the version attribute above| |`default['elasticsearch']['download_urls']['rhel']`|[See values](attributes/default.rb).|`%s` will be replaced with the version attribute above| |`default['elasticsearch']['download_urls']['tarball']`|[See values](attributes/default.rb).|`%s` will be replaced with the version attribute above| | For Elasticsearch >= 7: || |`default['elasticsearch']['download_urls_v7']['debian']`|[See values](attributes/default.rb).|`%s` will be replaced with the version attribute above| |`default['elasticsearch']['download_urls_v7']['rhel']`|[See values](attributes/default.rb).|`%s` will be replaced with the version attribute above| |`default['elasticsearch']['download_urls_v7']['tarball']`|[See values](attributes/default.rb).|`%s` will be replaced with the version attribute above| This cookbook's `elasticsearch::default` recipe also supports setting any `elasticsearch_` resource using attributes: ``` default['elasticsearch']['user'] = {} default['elasticsearch']['install'] = {} default['elasticsearch']['configure'] = {} default['elasticsearch']['service'] = {} default['elasticsearch']['plugin'] = {} ``` For example, this will pass a username 'foo' to `elasticsearch_user` and set a uid to `1234`: ``` default['elasticsearch']['user']['username'] = 'foo' default['elasticsearch']['user']['uid'] = '1234' ``` ## Recipes Resources are the intended way to consume this cookbook, however we have provided a single recipe that configures Elasticsearch by downloading an archive containing a distribution of Elasticsearch, and extracting that into `/usr/share`. See the attributes section above to for what defaults you can adjust. ### default The default recipe creates an elasticsearch user, group, package installation, configuration files, and service with all of the default options. Please note that there are [additional examples within the test fixtures](test/fixtures/cookbooks/elasticsearch_test), including a demonstration of how to configure two instances of Elasticsearch on a single server. ## Resources ## Notifications and Service Start/Restart The resources provided in this cookbook **do not automatically restart** services when changes have occurred. They ***do start services by default when configuring a new service*** This has been done to protect you from accidental data loss and service outages, as nodes might restart simultaneously or may not restart at all when bad configuration values are supplied. elasticsearch_service has a special `service_actions` parameter you can use to specify what state the underlying service should be in on each chef run (defaults to `:enabled` and `:started`). It will also pass through all of the standard `service` resource actions to the underlying service resource if you wish to notify it. You **must** supply your desired notifications when using each resource if you want Chef to automatically restart services. Again, we don't recommend this unless you know what you're doing. We are supporting whyrun mode in this cookbook, simply because we're using all builtin resources from core Chef, and these also already support whyrun. If you contribute to this cookbook, please be sure to maintain that or guard dangerous Ruby code with something like `if !whyrun_mode? || nested_resource.whyrun_supported?`. ### Resource names Many of the resources provided in this cookbook need to share configuration values. For example, the `elasticsearch_service` resource needs to know the path to the configuration file(s) generated by `elasticsearch_configure` and the path to the actual ES binary installed by `elasticsearch_install`. And they both need to know the appropriate system user and group defined by `elasticsearch_user`. Search order: In order to make this easy, all resources in this cookbook use the following search order to locate resources that apply to the same overall Elasticsearch setup: 1. Resources that share the same resource name 1. Resources that share the same value for `instance_name` 1. Resources named `default` or resources named `elasticsearch` - This fails if both `default` and `elasticsearch` resources exist Examples of more complicated resource names are left to the reader, but here we present a typical example that should work in most cases: ```ruby elasticsearch_user 'elasticsearch' elasticsearch_install 'elasticsearch' elasticsearch_configure 'elasticsearch' elasticsearch_service 'elasticsearch' elasticsearch_plugin 'x-pack' ``` ### elasticsearch_user Actions: `:create`, `:remove` Creates a user and group on the system for use by elasticsearch. Here is an example with many of the default options and default values (all options except a resource name may be omitted). Examples: ```ruby elasticsearch_user 'elasticsearch' ``` ```ruby elasticsearch_user 'elasticsearch' do username 'elasticsearch' groupname 'elasticsearch' shell '/bin/bash' comment 'Elasticsearch User' action :create end ``` ### elasticsearch_install Actions: `:install`, `:remove` Downloads the elasticsearch software, and unpacks it on the system. There are currently three ways to install -- `'repository'` (the default), which creates an apt or yum repo and installs from there, `'package'`, which downloads the appropriate package from elasticsearch.org and uses the package manager to install it, and `'tarball'` which downloads a tarball from elasticsearch.org and unpacks it. This resource also comes with a `:remove` action which will remove the package or directory elasticsearch was unpacked into. You may always specify a download_url and/or download_checksum, and you may include `%s` which will be replaced by the version parameter you supply. Please be sure to consult the above attribute section as that controls how Elasticsearch version, download URL and checksum are determined if you omit them. **NOTE**: The `:remove` action has not been implemented yet. Pull requests are very much welcome & encouraged, if you'd like to see this feature. Examples: ```ruby elasticsearch_install 'elasticsearch' ``` ```ruby elasticsearch_install 'my_es_installation' do type 'package' # type of install version '7.3.0' action :install # could be :remove as well end ``` ```ruby elasticsearch_install 'my_es_installation' do type 'tarball' # type of install dir '/usr/local' # where to install download_url "https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.7.2.tar.gz" # sha256 download_checksum "6f81935e270c403681e120ec4395c28b2ddc87e659ff7784608b86beb5223dd2" action :install # could be :remove as well end ``` ```ruby elasticsearch_install 'my_es_installation' do type 'tarball' # type of install version '7.3.0' action :install # could be :remove as well end ``` ```ruby elasticsearch_install 'my_es_installation' do type 'package' # type of install download_url "https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.7.2.deb" # sha256 download_checksum "791fb9f2131be2cf8c1f86ca35e0b912d7155a53f89c2df67467ca2105e77ec2" instance_name 'elasticsearch' action :install # could be :remove as well end ``` ### elasticsearch_configure Actions: `:manage`, `:remove` Configures an elasticsearch instance; creates directories for configuration, logs, and data. Writes files `log4j2.properties`, `elasticsearch.in.sh` and `elasticsearch.yml`. The main attribute for this resource is `configuration`, which is a hash of any elasticsearch configuration directives. The other important attribute is `default_configuration` -- this contains the minimal set of required defaults. Note that these are both _not_ a Chef mash, everything must be in a single level of keys and values. Any settings you pass in configuration will be merged into (and potentially overwrite) any default settings. See the examples, [as well as the attributes in the resource file](libraries/resource_configure.rb), for more. Examples: With all defaults - ```ruby elasticsearch_configure 'elasticsearch' ``` With mostly defaults - ```ruby elasticsearch_configure 'elasticsearch' do allocated_memory '512m' configuration ({ 'cluster.name' => 'escluster', 'node.name' => 'node01', 'http.port' => 9201 }) end ``` Very complicated - ```ruby elasticsearch_configure 'my_elasticsearch' do # if you override one of these, you probably want to override all path_home "/opt/elasticsearch" path_conf "/etc/opt/elasticsearch" path_data "/var/opt/elasticsearch" path_logs "/var/log/elasticsearch" path_pid "/var/run/elasticsearch" path_plugins "/opt/elasticsearch/plugins" path_bin "/opt/elasticsearch/bin" # override logging parameters cookbook_log4j2_properties "my_wrapper_cookbook" template_log4j2_properties "my_log4j2.properties.erb" logging({:"action" => 'INFO'}) allocated_memory '123m' jvm_options %w( -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:+PrintGCDetails ) configuration ({ 'node.name' => 'crazy' }) action :manage end ``` ### elasticsearch_service Actions: `:configure`, `:remove` Writes out a system service configuration of the appropriate type, and enables it to start on boot. You can override almost all of the relevant settings in such a way that you may run multiple instances. Most settings will be taken from a matching `elasticsearch_config` resource in the collection. ```ruby elasticsearch_service 'elasticsearch' ``` If you'd like to skip init scripts and systemd scripts, simply pass `nil` for the template file (init_source or systemd_source) and this cookbook will entirely skip trying to setup those scripts. Combined with changing the default service actions, this will have the same effect as `action :nothing`. ### elasticsearch_plugin Actions: `:install`, `:remove` Installs or removes a plugin to a given elasticsearch instance and plugin directory. Please note that there is currently no way to upgrade an existing plugin using commandline tools, so we haven't exposed that feature here either. Furthermore, there isn't a way to determine if a plugin is compatible with ES or even what version it is. So once we install a plugin to a directory, we generally assume that is the desired one and we don't touch it further. See https://github.com/elastic/cookbook-elasticsearch/issues/264 for more info. NB: You [may encounter issues on certain distros](http://blog.backslasher.net/java-ssl-crash.html) with NSS 3.16.1 and OpenJDK 7.x. Officially supported or commercial plugins require just the plugin name: ```ruby elasticsearch_plugin 'analysis-icu' do action :install end elasticsearch_plugin 'shield' do action :install end ``` Plugins from GitHub require a URL of 'username/repository' or 'username/repository/version': ```ruby elasticsearch_plugin 'kopf' do url 'lmenezes/elasticsearch-kopf' action :install end elasticsearch_plugin 'kopf' do url 'lmenezes/elasticsearch-kopf/1.5.7' action :install end ``` Plugins from Maven Central or Sonatype require 'groupId/artifactId/version': ```ruby elasticsearch_plugin 'mapper-attachments' do url 'org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments/2.6.0' action :install end ``` Plugins can be installed from a custom URL or file location as follows: ```ruby elasticsearch_plugin 'mapper-attachments' do url 'http://some.domain.name//my-plugin-1.0.0.zip' action :install end elasticsearch_plugin 'mapper-attachments' do url 'file:/path/to/my-plugin-1.0.0.zip' action :install end ``` The plugin resource respects the `https_proxy` or `http_proxy` (non-SSL) [Chef settings](https://docs.chef.io/config_rb_client.html) unless explicitly disabled using `chef_proxy false`: ```ruby elasticsearch_plugin 'kopf' do url 'lmenezes/elasticsearch-kopf' chef_proxy false action :install end ``` To run multiple instances per machine, an explicit `plugin_dir` location has to be provided: ```ruby elasticsearch_plugin 'x-pack' do plugin_dir '/usr/share/elasticsearch_foo/plugins' end ``` If for some reason, you want to name the resource something else, you may provide the true plugin name using the `plugin_name` parameter: ```ruby elasticsearch_plugin 'xyzzy' do plugin_name 'kopf' url 'lmenezes/elasticsearch-kopf' action :install end ``` ## License This software is licensed under the Apache 2 license, quoted below. Copyright (c) 2015 Elasticsearch Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.