azure-quickstart-templates/elasticsearch

Install Elasticsearch cluster on Virtual Machines with data node storage scale units

This template deploys an Elasticsearch cluster on Virtual Machines and uses template linking to create data node scale untis. The template provisions 3 dedicated master and client nodes in separate availability sets and storage accounts. Data node scale unit count and nodes in a scale unit can be configured as parameters. A load balancer is configured with a rule to route traffic on port 9200 to the client nodes, and also includes a single SSH management rule mapped to one of the client nodes. Multiple data disks are attached (the number depends on the size of the virtual machine selected) and data is striped across them as an approach to improve disk throughput.

This template also deploys a Storage Account, Virtual Network, Availability Sets, Public IP addresses, Load Balancer, and a Network Interface.

Below are the parameters that the template expects

Name	Description
storageAccountPrefix	Unique DNS Name for the Storage Account and the template will use this to create at storage account for each data node scale unit. Keep this short - scale unit and vm are appended this
adminUsername	Username for the Virtual Machines
adminPassword	Password for the Virtual Machine
dnsNameforLBIP	Unique DNS Name for the Public IP used for load balancer.
loadBalancerType	Type of load balancer to place the client nodes on (internal/external)
region	region where the resources will be deployed
virtualNetworkName	Name of Virtual Network
OS	The OS platform to deploy elasticsearch on
jumpbox	Add a management box to the deployment
vmSizeMasterNodes	Size of the Cluster Master Virtual Machine Instances
vmSizeClientNodes	Size of the Cluster Data Virtual Machine Instances
vmSizeDataNodes	Size of the Cluster Data Virtual Machine Instances (This will also affect number of data disks)
dataNodeScaleUnits	Number of Elasticsearch data scale units which include a configurable number of nodes and a storage account
dataNodesPerUnit	Number of Elasticsearch data nodes to provision with each scale unit
esClusterName	Name of the Elasticsearch cluster (elasticsearch)
esVersion	Elasticsearch version to deploy (1.5.0)
dataDiskSize	The size of each data disk attached in Gb (default 100GB)

##Notes Security Warning! The configuration allows you to enabled external load balanced endpoints on a public IP. The endpoint is not secure and it's recommended that you keep these endpoints internal or secure them. Elasticsearch Sheild product should be considered.