It's really left up to you to decide. Options are;
- Load balancer like HAProxy, nginx - Multi entry DNS record (ie roundrobin) - Having a client join the cluster for inserts There may be more others can suggest. On 4 December 2014 at 07:19, Christopher Ambler <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a nice, performant cluster of 5 nodes. They're all on separate > machines on the same switch. Life is good. > > Now... > > Do I tell the consumers of my Elasticsearch cluster to hit any of the five > nodes as suits their fancy? Or do I give them the name of ONE node? If so, > is that node configured any differently? > > Or do I put all five behind a virtual IP and load balance them? > > I can't find any documentation on best practices here. > > Thoughts? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/51237fd8-eefa-4d2b-9c1a-296dd391e98d%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/51237fd8-eefa-4d2b-9c1a-296dd391e98d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X8g5%2BWn8fYcH1HR%3DGahjz3V6dxr-W3ZNUMURX9zgpYDUA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
