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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 manually


Sometimes your plugin is not available online or standard installation fails, so you need to install your plugin manually.

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...

We assume that your plugin is named awesome and it's packed in a file called awesome.zip.

The steps required to manually install a plugin are:

  • Copy your zip file in the plugins directory in your Elasticsearch home installation

  • If the directory named plugins doesn't exist, create it

  • Unzip the content of the plugin in the plugins directory

  • Remove the zip archive to clean up unused files

How it works...

Every Elasticsearch plugin is contained in a directory (usually named as the plugin name). The plugin directory should be filled with one or more JAR files.

When Elasticsearch starts, it scans the plugins directory and loads them.

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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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