ansible-elasticsearch-nginx

Ansible playbook to setup an elasticsearch cluster with nginx load-balancer

Supported OS: Ubuntu 14.04 User: ubuntu, with passwordless sudo

1. Create necessary host groups in your ansible inventory file /etc/ansible/hosts

   [es-balancer] 192.168.66.1

   [es-node] 192.168.66.2 192.168.66.3 192.168.66.4

2. Start the playbook as: ansible-playbook ES.yml

Many necessary defaults are predefined. Such as:

• Oracle java 8
• Cluster name test-elasticsearch (elasticsearch.yml.j2: cluster.name: test-elasticsearch)
• Separate ES data directory (you can just remove: "path.data: /mnt/elasticsearch" in elasticsearch.yml.j2 file and task 4 in ES-1.4 file)