Ansible Role: Elasticsearch

An Ansible Role that installs Elasticsearch on RedHat/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

elasticsearch_network_host: localhost

Network host to listen for incoming connections on. By default we only listen on the localhost interface. Change this to the IP address to listen on a specific interface, or 0.0.0.0 to listen on all interfaces.

elasticsearch_http_port: 9200

The port to listen for HTTP connections on.

elasticsearch_script_inline: true
elasticsearch_script_indexed: true

Whether to allow inline scripting against ElasticSearch. You should read the following link as there are possible security implications for enabling these options: Enable Dynamic Scripting. Available options include: true, false, and sandbox.

Dependencies

• geerlingguy.java

Example Playbook

- hosts: search
  roles:
    - geerlingguy.java
    - geerlingguy.elasticsearch

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.