If you're crazy like me and run elasticsearch on Windows, I can't recommend elasticsearch-setup [1] highly enough. Combined with node discovery via the EC2 API

If you're crazy like me and run elasticsearch on Windows, I can't recommend elasticsearch-setup [1] highly enough. Combined with node discovery via the EC2 API [2], it's been rock-solid. [1] http://ruilopes.com/elasticsearch-setup/ http://ruilopes.com/elasticsearch-setup/ [2] http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/modules/discovery/ec2/ http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/modules/discove...