Effective DevOps with AWS

Creating and launching an ElasticSearch cluster

As mentioned, AWS has a managed service for ElasticSearch. We will use it to create our cluster.

Create a new file and call it elasticsearch-cf-template.py. Our script will start almost like the nodeserver-cf-template.py file, but with a number of imports, including some for the elasticsearch service:

"""Generating CloudFormation template.""" 
 
from ipaddress import ip_network 
 
from ipify import get_ip 
 
from troposphere import ( 
    GetAtt, 
    Join, 
    Output, 
    Export, 
    Parameter, 
    Ref, 
    Template, 
) 
 
from troposphere.elasticsearch import ( 
    Domain, 
    EBSOptions, 
    ElasticsearchClusterConfig, 
) 

We will continue the script with the creation of the template and the extraction of the IP address. In the context of ElasticSearch, ...