AWS Open Source Blog
Build Your Own: Open Distro for Elasticsearch Build Scripts Now Available
Want to craft your own Docker images using Open Distro for Elasticsearch build scripts? Or build your RPM or Debian packages to customize your own Open Distro for Elasticsearch stack? Our build scripts for Elasticsearch and for Kibana are now available for you to do just that. As with the rest of Open Distro for […]
Read MoreRunning Open Distro for Elasticsearch on Kubernetes
This post is a walk-through on deploying Open Distro for Elasticsearch on Kubernetes as a production-grade deployment. Ring is an Amazon subsidiary specializing in the production of smart devices for home security. With its signature product, the Ring Video Doorbell and Neighborhood Security feed for many major cities, Ring is pursuing a mission to reduce […]
Read MoreRun Rally with Open Distro for Elasticsearch
It’s hard to size and scale an Elasticsearch cluster. You need to have sufficient storage for your data, but your mappings and the contents of the data are key components to your data’s size on disk. You need capacity for your queries and updates, but the amounts of CPU, JVM, disk, and network bandwidth you […]
Read MoreOpen Distro for Elasticsearch 0.9.0 Now Available
中文版 – The 0.9.0 release includes Elasticsearch 6.7.1, Kibana 6.7.1 from upstream and the latest Open Distro plugins which include the alerting plugin, the performance analyzer, the SQL plugin and the security plugin. The Kibana UI components for the Open Distro plugins are also part of this release. You can find the details on enhancements, […]
Read MoreBest Practices for Optimizing Distributed Deep Learning Performance on Amazon EKS
中文版 – In this post, we will demonstrate how to create a fully-managed Kubernetes cluster on AWS using Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), and how to run distributed deep learning training jobs using Kubeflow and the AWS FSx CSI driver. We then will discuss best practices to optimize machine learning training performance […]
Read MoreOpen Source News Roundup: April 22, 2019
中文版 Upcoming Events RailsConf (April 30-May 2 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) – Lounge & Lanyard Sponsor. Workshop on Going Serverless with Ruby on AWS Lambda by Alex Wood and Jingyi Chen. PyCon (May 1-9 in Cleveland, Ohio) – Platinum Sponsor. Come find us at Booth #439 to see how AWS <3 Python. Percona Live (May 28-30 […]
Read MoreLDAP Integration for Open Distro for Elasticsearch
中文版 – Open Distro for Elasticsearch’s security plugin comes with authentication and access control out of the box. In prior posts we showed how you can change your admin password in Open Distro for Elasticsearch and how you can add your own SSL certificates to Open Distro for Elasticsearch. One of the key steps to using […]
Read MoreOpen Distro for Elasticsearch Debian Packages Now Available for Version 0.8.0
中文版 – You can now download Open Distro for Elasticsearch version 0.8.0 for Debian and Ubuntu environments. Open Distro for Elasticsearch 0.8.0 is built on the Apache 2.0 licensed versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana 6.6.2. See the Open Distro for Elasticsearch downloads page for instructions on how to download and install the .deb packages. Note: […]
Read MoreLightweight Debugging with Performance Analyzer and PerfTop in Open Distro for Elasticsearch
中文版 – When you want to monitor your Elasticsearch cluster or debug an issue, you have a number of choices. You can use the various _cat and stats APIs to pull information out of the cluster. You can monitor and profile the JVM itself. These options can be cumbersome, and they lack visual displays. While […]
Read MoreNew Release: Open Distro for Elasticsearch version 0.8.0
中文版 – Open Distro for Elasticsearch 0.8.0 is now available for you to download and run. Release highlights include support for Elasticsearch 6.6.2, Kibana 6.6.2 and various minor enhancements and bug fixes for the plugins. The alerting plugin has been updated to the latest Kotlin version 1.3. The SQL plugin index pattern queries have been fixed […]
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