Elastician

A set of tools to easily develop and manage Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack

Build or get from Docker Hub

Get from Docker Hub:

docker pull bigdataboutique/elastician

Build locally:

docker build .

Commands

Dump an index to a file

docker run  --net=host -v `pwd`:/data --rm bigdataboutique/elastician dump myindex --hosts http://10.63.246.27:9200

Upload file and ingest it into an index

docker run  --net=host -v `pwd`:/data --rm bigdataboutique/elastician ingest myindex_dump.jsonl.gz myindex --hosts http://10.63.246.27:9200

Both dump and ingest now have additional parameters to allow accessing ES using a certificate. Make sure the certificate file has the appropriate file permissions.

--crtfile - name of the certificate file. Notice that unless you specify a folder this should sit in the working directory of the container, which is /data .

--verify-cert/--no-verify-cert - Whether you're using a signed cert and want to verify it. By default false.

Copy index between clusters

docker run  --net=host --rm bigdataboutique/elastician copy source_index_name --target http://target-cluster:9200 --source http://10.63.246.27:9200

Perform a set of instructions on clusters (e.g. to copy indices between clusters)

docker run  --net=host -v `pwd`:/instructions --rm bigdataboutique/elastician copy-cluster /instructions/source.csv /instructions/target.csv  --target http://target-cluster:9200 --source http://10.63.246.27:9200

First file name is csv with rows in the following structure:

instruction,index_name,to_del

where instruction is either copy, dump, delete, to_del is X if the index in the source is to be deleted following the action

For ingest the format is:

ingest,file_name,index_name

Other parameters for copy-cluster:

--abort-on-failure: stops the default is true

--dump-timeout - default is u'1m'

--delete-timeout - default is 60

--error-on-timeout: whether the delete function should return an error on timeout

--preserve-index/--no-preserve-index - whether the index saved in the dumps should be used during ingest

Dump also has a read-timeout parameter which determines request timeout (as opposed to scroll timeout).

Copy and copy-cluster also have certificate parameters, that work similarly to those above:

--crtfile-target

--verify-cert-target/--no-verify-cert

--crtfile-source

--verify-cert-source/--no-verify-cert-source

Ingest and copy cluster have an ingest-timeout parameter. Default is 10, bump it up when you're getting timeouts while ingesting.

Dump's --sliced parameter allows dumping using a sliced scroll. Not yet added into copy cluster.

The --size parameter for dump and copy-cluster determines the bulk size