Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

To execute these commands, HTTP clients can be used, such as curl (https://curl.haxx.se/), postman (https://www.getpostman.com/), or others. I suggest using the Kibana console as it provides code completion and better character escaping for Elasticsearch.

To execute the following commands correctly, use the indexed document in the Indexing a document recipe.

To use dynamic scripting languages, they must be enabled. See Chapter 9, Managing Cluster, for more information.