collins-b/elasticsearch-aws-ec2

Elasticsearch cluster using Terraform on AWS(EC2) to the minimal

This module creates ES cluster on AWS

Pre-requisite

• Terraform
• AWS account
• Node

How to run

• Clone this repository, https://github.com/collins-b/elasticsearch-aws-ec2.git.

• cd elasticsearch-aws-ec2.

• Initialise Terraform, terraform init

• Run terraform apply to provision ES in an AWS EC2 instance

• Change directory into indexer. Create a .env file with contents similar to https://github.com/collins-b/elasticsearch-aws-ec2/indexer/.env.example. Populate the variable value with the public IP address of the created EC2 Iinstance. You can get this by describing your instance or by directly viewing it on the AWS console.

  • Install required packages by running npm install.

  • Index data in sample.json file, by running node index.js

  • Search can be done by running node search_name.js

NOTE: Make sure you have AWS access_key and AWS secret_key

NOTE

I was run out of time(1.5 hours), so I couldn't implement a sound monitoring. I could use cloudwatch and SNS to monitor the ES cluster. Alerts could be done via email anytime the healthcheck of the ES fails.