Raigad is a process/tool that runs alongside Elasticsearch to automate the following:
- Snapshot backup and restore.
- Configured deployments for a dedicated master/data/search approach.
- Tribe node deployments.
- Publishing Elasticsearch monitoring metrics.
- Support for AWS environment.
Elasticsearch is open source, distributed, real-time search and analytics engine: https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch/
The name "Raigad" refers to the name of an Indian fort in state of Maharashtra.
Raigad is actively developed and used at Netflix.
Features:
- Support multi-region Elasticsearch deployment in AWS via public IP.
- Automated security group update in multi-region environment.
- REST APIs for backup/restore and other operations.