[Apiman-user] Elasticsearch configuration

[Eric Wittmann]

No problem.  If you end up with a production configuration strategy for 
elasticsearch+apiman we'd love to hear about it!  Perhaps a guest blog 
post?  :)

Just a thought...

-Eric

On 2/24/2016 1:52 PM, Aikeaguinea wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016, at 10:44 AM, Eric Wittmann wrote:
>> 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?
>>>
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