The EC2 discovery plugin provides a list of seed addresses to the discovery process by querying the AWS API for a list of EC2 instances matching certain criteria determined by the plugin settings.

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Installationedit

This plugin can be installed using the plugin manager:

sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin install discovery-ec2

The plugin must be installed on every node in the cluster, and each node must be restarted after installation.

You can download this plugin for offline install from https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch-plugins/discovery-ec2/discovery-ec2-8.0.0-alpha2.zip. To verify the .zip file, use the SHA hash or ASC key.

Removaledit

The plugin can be removed with the following command:

sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin remove discovery-ec2

The node must be stopped before removing the plugin.