December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
3h 25m
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A node is a single instance of the Elasticsearch server and it can host data. This means that shards of indices are allowed to be allocated on the nodes. By default, each node is considered to be a data node, but you can turn the setting off.
You can make a non-data node by adding node.data: false to the elasticsearch.yml file.
There are two types of non-data nodes: dedicated master nodes and client nodes.
Dedicated master nodes will have the settings node.data: false and node.master :true. Such nodes are responsible for managing the cluster. Index and search requests are not sent to these nodes.
Client nodes will have the settings node.data: false and node.master: false. It can be used to balance ...
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