Introduction

There are different options in installing ElasticSearch and setting up a working environment for development and production.

This chapter explains the installation process and the configuration from a single developer machine to a big cluster, giving hints on how to improve the performance and skip misconfiguration errors.

The setup step is very important, because a bad configuration can bring bad results, poor performances and kill your server.

In this chapter, the management of ElasticSearch plugins is also discussed: installing, configuring, updating, and removing plugins.