[Apiman-user] Elasticsearch configuration

[Eric Wittmann]

Apiman will automatically create the appropriate ES indexes if they do 
not exist.  However, it does this in a very naive way:

https://github.com/apiman/apiman/blob/master/gateway/engine/es/src/main/java/io/apiman/gateway/engine/es/ESClientFactory.java#L220-L233

That said, we aren't really elasticsearch experts, so I'm not too 
confident offering advice on how to scale/cluster a production instance 
of Elasticsearch (note that we are working on alternatives).

My suggestion is probably to create the indexes manually, and shard them 
however you think is appropriate.  Apiman will then simply use the 
indexes you create rather than create them for you.  You can use the ES 
Mappings files when configuring the indexes:

https://github.com/apiman/apiman/tree/master/gateway/engine/es/src/main/resources/io/apiman/gateway/engine/es

-Eric

On 2/23/2016 5:07 PM, Aikeaguinea wrote:
> I'm moving toward a production deployment of apiman on AWS. At least for
> now we're using Amazon's Elasticsearch service and have been able to
> configure and use it.
>
> For production, we need to pay attention to some of the finer details of
> clustering, etc. It looks like sharding is mainly controlled when an
> index is created. How does apiman manage creating replica shards? Does
> this need to be configured somehow?
>