IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the
current release documentation.
Getting started with AWS
editGetting started with AWS
editThe plugin provides a hosts provider for zen discovery named ec2
. This hosts
provider finds other Elasticsearch instances in EC2 through AWS metadata.
Authentication is done using
IAM
Role credentials by default. To enable the plugin, set the unicast host
provider for Zen discovery to ec2
:
discovery.zen.hosts_provider: ec2