Inserting an ingest pipeline

The power of the pipeline definition is the ability for it to be updated and created without a node restart (compared to Logstash). The definition is stored in a cluster state via the put pipeline API.

Now that we've defined a pipeline, we need to provide it to the Elasticsearch cluster.

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

To execute the commands, every HTTP client can be used, such as curl (https://curl.haxx.se/), postman (https://www.getpostman.com/), or similar. Use the Kibana console, as it provides the code completion and better character escaping for...