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GCE Discovery plugin
editGCE Discovery plugin
editThe Google Compute Engine Discovery plugin uses the GCE API to identify the addresses of seed hosts.
Installation
editVersion 9.0.0-beta1 of the Elastic Stack has not yet been released. The plugin might not be available.
This plugin can be installed using the plugin manager:
sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin install discovery-gce
The plugin must be installed on every node in the cluster, and each node must be restarted after installation.
You can download this plugin for offline
install from https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch-plugins/discovery-gce/discovery-gce-9.0.0-beta1.zip. To verify
the .zip
file, use the
SHA hash or
ASC key.
Removal
editThe plugin can be removed with the following command:
sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin remove discovery-gce
The node must be stopped before removing the plugin.