Thanks for that warning, Koen.

While we are on the subject, how does querying ES through Arches work, 
exactly? 


On Wednesday, 1 February 2017 03:47:49 UTC-5, Koen Van Daele wrote:
>
> It might be good to point out that - as Alexei mentioned - opening up your 
> Elasticsearch instance to the world is a security breach and can get you 
> hit by ransomware attacks. As has happened recently with elasticsearch 
> instances around the world: 
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/elasticsearch-ransomware-attacks-now-number-in-the-thousands/
>  So 
> if you do change the default setup, you need to make sure only Arches can 
> to talk to Elasticsearch (or you need to setup a good security system in 
> front of Elasticsearch).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Koen
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> *Verzonden:* dinsdag 31 januari 2017 21:52
> *Aan:* Vincent Meijer
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> *Onderwerp:* Re: [Arches] Arches 4: ElasticSearch 
>  
> Hey Vincent, glad you brought this up. That graphic does more to show the 
> resulting system architecture from the commands in the dev installation 
> than it does to show the possible ways Arches can be setup. So, as Alexei 
> mentioned it is a little misleading: Arches need not be setup with 
> elasticsearch inside, but certain install steps allow that to happen out of 
> convenience. I'll fix some of the text to say that. As mentioned in the 
> note above the graphic, final distribution architecture isn't set yet 
> anyway. 
>
> Glad we can work these wrinkles while drafting the documentation!
>
> Adam
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Vincent Meijer <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Got it, thanks!
>>
>> On Tuesday, 31 January 2017 13:19:46 UTC-5, Alexei Peters wrote: 
>>>
>>> Does it mean that external apps can query ElasticSearch only through the 
>>>> Arches app? 
>>>
>>>
>>> Essentially, yes, although you can open up the port to access ES 
>>> directly, but I would consider that a security breach.   
>>>
>>>
>>> Director of Web Development - Farallon Geographics, Inc. - 971.227.3173
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Vincent Meijer <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for explaining! Could you please tell a little bit more about 
>>>> what it means that the Arches app acts as a proxy to ElasticSearch?  
>>>> Does it mean that external apps can query ElasticSearch only through 
>>>> the Arches app? 
>>>>
>>>> Vincent
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, 31 January 2017 12:44:33 UTC-5, Alexei Peters wrote: 
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Vincent, 
>>>>> Good question!  This graphic is actually a little misleading and 
>>>>> should be changed to show Arches app acting as a proxy to to the 
>>>>> Elasticsearch server.
>>>>> Elasticsearch runs as a separate service and additional instances of 
>>>>> Elasticsearch can be setup on additional machines if needed.
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Alexei
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Director of Web Development - Farallon Geographics, Inc. - 
>>>>> 971.227.3173
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Vincent Meijer <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In Arches 4 the ElasticSearch server is incorporated inside Arches 
>>>>>> itself: 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/archesproject/arches/wiki/Dev-Installation#system-architecture
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was wondering how this works and what the idea behind this is. It 
>>>>>> seems odd to me.
>>>>>> E.g. How would it work if you want to run a cluster of Arches 
>>>>>> instances? 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>> Vincent
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