Elasticsearch Talk

Speakers

Cedric Hurst: Principal & Lead Software Engineer

Kevin Greene: Senior Software Engineer

Gary Turovsky: Senior Software Engineer

Malynda Chizek Frouard Software Engineer

When

Tuesday February 18th, 2014

Where

Spantree Technology Group, LLC
1144 W Fulton Market, Suite 120 Chicago, IL 60607

Instructions for setting up this sample project

We ask that you walk through these steps before you stop by since you'll need to download stuff and we don't want to crush our office bandwidth. The project itself will likely evolve up until the time of the presentation, but the virtual machine stuff shouldn't change too much.

Tools You'll Need

Install the following tools to bootstrap your environment

• Install Git
• Install VirtualBox (we used version 4.3)
• Install Vagrant (we used version 1.3.5)

Clone this repository

From the command line, clone this repository with:

git clone --recursive --depth 1 [email protected]:Spantree/elasticsearch-talk.git

If you're new to git and run into trouble with this step, it might be due to missing github keys.

Set up your vagrant instance

Then initialize your vagrant instance with:

cd elasticsearch-talk
vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager
vagrant up

This will download a base Virtualbox Ubuntu image, set it up as a virtual machine to run locally, and install all the tools extra tools you'll need to play along. You may be required to enter your password at some point so that hostmanager can add an entry for "esdemo.local" to your /etc/hosts file.

Dance!

That's it. That's all there is to it.

You should now be able to access elasticsearch on your machine from a web browser at http://esdemo.local:9200:

You should also be able to ssh into your virtual machine using the vagrant ssh command:

Stay up-to-date

As mentioned, we may be altering the vagrant configuration up until the time of the presentation, so make sure you have the latest changes by doing the following from your host terminal:

git pull
vagrant reload
vagrant provision

Shut down vagrant

When you're all done elasticsearching, you can gracefull shut down your vagrant instance by running:

vagrant halt

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This will close the VM.

Remove the virtual machine from disk

If you want to conserve disk space, you can get rid of the disk images at ~/.vagrant.d and ~/VirtualBox VMs:

This repo will here for you should you need it again.

Show us some love

Email [email protected] if you run into issues. We'd be happy to help.