Assignment

Q.1 What did you choose to automate the provisioning and bootstrapping of the instance? Why

• Automation: I used Terraform for provisioning the AWS resource.
• BootStraping: I used a Shell Scripting for configuring The Linux Severs.

Q.2 How did you choose to secure ElasticSearch? Why?

• Elasticseach can be secured using SSL/TLS Connections and also we can configured using User/Roles.

Q.3 How would you monitor this instance? What metrics would you monitor?

• I will Monitor the Instances using AWS Cloudwatch Service.I will monitor instances like Memory Utilization ,CPU Utilizationand and Disk Utilization.

Q.4 Could you extend your solution to launch a secure cluster of ElasticSearch nodes? What would need to change to support this use case?

• Yes,we can secure our ElasticSearch nodes Using SSL/TLS Communication.

Q.5 Could you extend your solution to replace a running ElasticSearch instance with little or no downtime ? How?

• We can Use AWS ElasticSearch Manage Service and also we can integrates nodes with Active Directory.

Q.6 Was it a priority to make your code well structured, extensible, and reusable?

• Yes it is priority to make our code Well Structured.Later,we can modify our code as per our requirements.

Q.7. What sacrifices did you make due to time?

• When launching the master node ,we need to configured our nodes IP in elasticsearch.yml.So SSL Automation connection is pending.

REFERENCES:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/configuring-security.html