elasticsearch

In a previous post, I talked about how I have tended towards the philosophy of ‘Immutable Infrastructure’. As part of that philospohy, when a box is created in my environment, it has a lifespan of 14 days. On the 14th day, I get a notification to tell me that the box is due for renewal. When it comes to ElasticSearch nodes, there is a process I follow to renew a box.

As discussed in a previous post, I like to build separate AMIs for each of my systems. This allows me to scale up and recycle nodes easily. I have been doing this with ElasticSearch for a while now. I usually build an AMI with Packer and Ansible and I use Terraform to roll out the infrastructure ###Building ElasticSearch AMIs with Packer The packer template looks as follows: {% raw %}