What you need for this book
To follow along with the examples in this book, you'll need a real or virtualized three-node Elasticsearch cluster. You may optionally want two other nodes to run Marvel and Nagios, covered in Chapter 4, Marvel Dashboard, and Chapter 5, System Monitoring, respectively. It is possible to run Marvel and Nagios on the same host as a node in your Elasticsearch cluster, but you shouldn't do this in a production cluster. Check out VMWare Player (https://www.vmware.com/products/player) and VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) for standing up your own virtual five-node environment or Amazon EC2 (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/) for building a cluster in the cloud.
For your Elasticsearch nodes, you'll need a 64-bit ...
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