Offline Plugin Management
editOffline Plugin Management
editThe Logstash plugin manager was introduced in the 1.5 release. This section discusses setting up local repositories of plugins for use on systems without access to the Internet.
The procedures in this section require a staging machine running Logstash that has access to a public or private Rubygems server. This staging machine downloads and packages the files used for offline installation.
See the Private Gem Repositories section for information on setting up your own private Rubygems server.
Users who can work with a larger Logstash artifact size can use the Logstash (All Plugins) download link from the Logstash product page to download Logstash bundled with the latest version of all available plugins. You can distribute this bundle to all nodes without further plugin staging.
Building the Offline Package
editWorking with offline plugins requires you to create an offline package, which is a compressed file that contains all of the plugins your offline Logstash installation requires, along with the dependencies for those plugins.
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Create the offline package with the
bin/logstash-plugin pack
subcommand.When you run the
bin/logstash-plugin pack
subcommand, Logstash creates a compressed bundle that contains all of the currently installed plugins and the dependencies for those plugins. By default, the compressed bundle is a GZipped TAR file when you run thebin/logstash-plugin pack
subcommand on a UNIX machine. By default, when you run thebin/logstash-plugin pack
subcommand on a Windows machine, the compressed bundle is a ZIP file. See Managing Plugin Packs for details on changing these default behaviors.Downloading all dependencies for the specified plugins may take some time, depending on the plugins listed.
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Move the compressed bundle to the offline machines that are the source for offline plugin installation, then use the
bin/logstash-plugin unpack
subcommand to make the packaged plugins available.
Install or Update a local plugin
editTo install or update a local plugin, use the --local
option with the install and update commands, as in the following
examples:
Example 1. Installing a local plugin
bin/logstash-plugin install --local logstash-input-jdbc
Example 2. Updating a local plugin
bin/logstash-plugin update --local logstash-input-jdbc
Example 3. Updating all local plugins in one command
bin/logstash-plugin update --local
Managing Plugin Packs
editThe pack
and unpack
subcommands for bin/logstash-plugin
take the following options:
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Generate the offline package as a GZipped TAR file. The default behavior on UNIX systems. |
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Generate the offline package as a ZIP file. The default behavior on Windows systems. |
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Generates a new offline package that overwrites an existing offline with the specified name.
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