Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

Creating an index

You can create an index and specify the number of shards and replicas to create:

PUT /catalog{  "settings": {    "index": {      "number_of_shards": 5,      "number_of_replicas": 2    }  }}

It is possible to specify a mapping for a type at the time of index creation. The following command will create an index called catalog with five shards and two replicas. Additionally, it also defines a type called my_type with two fields, one of the text type and another of the keyword type:

PUT /catalog{  "settings": {    "index": {      "number_of_shards": 5,      "number_of_replicas": 2    }  },  "mappings": {    "my_type": {      "properties": {        "f1": {          "type": "text"        },        "f2": {          "type": "keyword"        }      }    }  }}