elasticsearch-route53
This is an Elasticsearch plugin which registers the cluster in Route53 after reading hosted zone info from the ES properties.
Shortcut to installing Route53Plugin
On Elasticsearch 0.90:
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$ bin/plugin -url https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/downloads.9apps.net/elasticsearch-Route53Plugin-0.90.0.zip -install Route53Plugin
On Elasticsearch 1.0:
$ bin/plugin -url https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/downloads.9apps.net/elasticsearch-Route53Plugin-1.0.1.zip -install Route53Plugin
Generating the installable plugin
To generate the plugin for installation you need to use maven:
$ mvn clean package
which generates a file such as target/release/elasticsearch-Route53Plugin-0.90.0.zip.
Installing the plugin
Install it from the Elasticsearch installation directory, by running (change the location of your file):
$ bin/plugin -url file:/home/flavia/elasticsearch-Route53Plugin-0.90.0.zip -install Route53Plugin
To uninstall it you can run:
$ bin/plugin -remove Route53Plugin
Configuring the plugin
The plugin has some options that you can configure in the elasticsearch.yml:
- route53.registration.enabled: To enable or disable the plugin itself. True by default.
- route53.aws.access_key and route53.aws.secret_key (or access_key_id and secret_access_key): AWS credentials of the account where the hosted zone is registered. No default values. If using IAM, it should have at least permission to change record sets in Route53.
- route53.hosted_zone and route53.hosted_zone_id: The hosted zone name and id where you want to register your cluster. The name assigned will be ..
Development
We use Eclipse with the m2 plugin for development.