Using setup with ELB about elasticsearch HOT 4 CLOSED

Yeah, that is true. Rather then hardcoding the /health endpoint in there, it would be cool to somehow allow using Chef 11 partial templates here, for the Nginx configuration template.

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Was fooling with this a bit. I see the problem that we would return 200 OK no matter how the Elasticsearch backend is actually doing, thus decreasing the usefulness of the check for ELB.

In the end, I think I have found a way -- returning the response from a HEAD request to localhost:9200. Can you check this out and verify it does not open any loophole?

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Seems reasonable to me, an ES aware ELB would work better in terms of availability. I will check and share my results. Actually I expect no issues with your solution. Thanks!

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Here comes very late feedback, working a like charm.
Cheers.

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