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Alberto Paro
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Alberto Paro

Alberto Paro is an engineer, manager, and software developer. He currently works as technology architecture delivery associate director of the Accenture Cloud First data and AI team in Italy. He loves to study emerging solutions and applications, mainly related to cloud and big data processing, NoSQL, Natural language processing (NLP), software development, and machine learning. In 2000, he graduated in computer science engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Then, he worked with many companies, mainly using Scala/Java and Python on knowledge management solutions and advanced data mining products, using state-of-the-art big data software. A lot of his time is spent teaching how to effectively use big data solutions, NoSQL data stores, and related technologies.
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Installing plugins in Elasticsearch


One of the main features of Elasticsearch is the possibility to extend it with plugins. Plugins extend Elasticsearch features and functionalities in several ways.

In Elasticsearch 5.x, the plugins are native plugins--they are jars files that contain application code. They are used for:

  • ScriptEngine (JavaScript, Python, Scala, and Ruby)

  • Custom Analyzers, tokenizers, and scoring

  • REST entry points

  • Ingestion pipeline stages

  • Supporting new storages (Hadoop)

Getting ready

You need a working Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe and a prompt/shell to execute commands in Elasticsearch install directory.

How to do it...

Elasticsearch provides a script for automatic download and for installation of plugins in bin/directory called plugin.

The steps required to install a plugin are:

  • Call the plugin and install Elasticsearch command with the plugin name reference.

  • For installing an administrative interface for Elasticsearch...

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Alberto Paro is an engineer, manager, and software developer. He currently works as technology architecture delivery associate director of the Accenture Cloud First data and AI team in Italy. He loves to study emerging solutions and applications, mainly related to cloud and big data processing, NoSQL, Natural language processing (NLP), software development, and machine learning. In 2000, he graduated in computer science engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Then, he worked with many companies, mainly using Scala/Java and Python on knowledge management solutions and advanced data mining products, using state-of-the-art big data software. A lot of his time is spent teaching how to effectively use big data solutions, NoSQL data stores, and related technologies.
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