@David Severski

One more question

> 3) EC2-Classic is deprecated. Demonstrating use of VPC would be helpful.

What do you mean by that?


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Pavel P <[email protected]> wrote:

> @David Severski
>
> Thanks for the input.
>
> I've actually encountered the issue, when my security group was closed for
> the world and the private IPs were not stated in the security group rules.
> I had no idea why the could-aws does not connect to the hosts, because the
> public IPs were there.
> I've stated that issue in the article.
>
> However I agree with you, the cluster should not be available from the
> world.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 3:32 PM, David Severski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for collecting this information together! A couple points for
>> tweaking:
>>
>> 1) Instead of hard coding the IAM credentials into the file, associate
>> the instances with an IAM role. cloud-aws will use those automatically and
>> AWS will handle key rotation for you.
>> 2) You are launching all the instances into the same availability zone.
>> That greatly reduces the ability of the cluster to tolerate an AWS outage.
>> Stick each of your three nodes in a different availability zone and you'll
>> be much better off.
>> 3) EC2-Classic is deprecated. Demonstrating use of VPC would be helpful.
>> 4) I encourage AWS hosts _not_ to be named. Users should plan for hosts
>> to come and go. This means no-unique host names and hard coded IPs. AWS is
>> ephemeral infrastructure and ES, as a cluster app, is very happy playing in
>> this space.
>>
>> and the big one...
>>
>> 5) Your security group looks to open ES to the world. DON'T DO THIS!
>> There's been a tremendous amount of angst recently from ES clusters getting
>> owned via open tcp/9200 and these security groups look to open your cluster
>> to the entire internet. There's no need for that. cloud-aws will work with
>> private IPs just fine.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, August 14, 2014 10:13:34 AM UTC-7, Pavel P wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Below you can find one big article, summing up all my experience of
>>> building the cluster on AWS.
>>> When I started I had no information at all, but I found the needed
>>> pieces in different places, including this user group.
>>>
>>> With your help I succeeded, and want to share the knowledge, that
>>> newcomers would find everything in one place.
>>>
>>> Elasticsearch cluster on AWS. Part 1 - preparing the environment.
>>> <http://pavelpolyakov.com/2014/08/13/elasticsearch-cluster-on-aws-part-1-preparing-environment/>
>>> Elasticsearch cluster on AWS. Part 2 - configuring the elasticsearch.
>>> <http://pavelpolyakov.com/2014/08/14/elasticsearch-cluster-on-aws-part-2-configuring-the-elasticsearch/>
>>>
>>> Hope it would help someone!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
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