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Reindex and aliases

Elastic B(y|i)te S01

Apr. 2021

David Pilato
David Pilato
Reindex and aliases

Abstract

You should always use aliases in Elasticsearch. This talk will explain why and how you can use this API. The Reindex API helps you to reindex a dataset into another index. We will cover this with some practical examples.

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I'll be speaking about "Reindex and Aliases" on Tuesday for the #DailyElasticByte (8 minutes every day before lunch to learn something about #ElasticStack) ➑️ https://t.co/O6l2jlZBOq #elasticsearch pic.twitter.com/rl4iIofUKW

— David Pilato πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡«πŸ‡· (@dadoonet) March 15, 2021

I'll be speaking in 5 minutes at https://t.co/O6l2jlZBOq about #Elasticsearch aliases and the reindex API. πŸ€—

— David Pilato πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡«πŸ‡· (@dadoonet) March 16, 2021
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Gave 6 talks at Elastic B(y|i)te S01
  • 2021-04-22 en (Searchable) Snapshots
  • 2021-04-20 en Text Analysis
  • 2021-04-16 en Ingest Processors
  • 2021-04-13 en Reindex and aliases
  • 2021-04-09 en Index Split, Shrink and Rollover
  • 2021-04-06 en Composable Index Templates

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Details

I discovered Elasticsearch project in 2011. After contributed to the project and created open source plugins for it, David joined elastic the company in 2013 where he is Developer and Evangelist. He also created and still actively managing the French spoken language User Group. At elastic, he mainly worked on Elasticsearch source code, specifically on open-source plugins. In his free time, he likes talking about elasticsearch in conferences or in companies (Brown Bag Lunches AKA BBLs). He is also author of FSCrawler project which helps to index your pdf, open office, whatever documents in elasticsearch using Apache Tika behind the scene.

Who am I?

Developer | Evangelist at elastic and creator of the Elastic French User Group. Frequent speaker about all things Elastic, in conferences, for User Groups and in companies with BBL talks. In my free time, I enjoy coding and deejaying as DJ Elky, just for fun. Living with my children in Cergy, France.

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