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Setting up your environment
editSetting up your environment
editThese examples contain a few variables to help you test in your own environment. These include:
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$ECE_API_KEY - The API key used to authenticate API calls on Elastic Cloud Enterprise. For details on generating and using an API key, see Authenticate using an API key.
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$COORDINATOR_HOST -
The address for the host that holds the coordinator role in your ECE installation. For example, in an AWS environment your coordinator host address would be in a format like
ec2-x-xx-xxx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com. -
$DEPLOYMENT_ID - The ID used to uniquely identify an ECE deployment. Our first What deployments are there? example shows you how to see the existing deployments and their IDs.
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$REF_ID - The unique ID for a resource in a deployment. This is first used in our Checking on progress example.
You can use an export command to set these variables in your shell environment, so that you can cut and paste each example into a terminal shell:
export API_KEY="YOUR_GENERATED_API_KEY" export COORDINATOR_HOST="ec2-x-xx-xxx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com"
These API examples all use HTTPS over port 12443 and run against a host that holds the coordinator role. Using HTTPS requires that you have a TLS certificate already installed. For testing purposes only, you can specify the -k option to turn off certificate verification, as shown in our examples, or use HTTP over port 12400 until you get your TLS certificate sorted out.