Enable more stack features: Add Enterprise Search to a deployment

The RESTful API is also useful for adding Elastic Stack features to existing deployments. In this example, we’ll show you how to create a new Enterprise Search instance and associate it with an existing Elasticsearch resource that is part of a deployment. We’ll use My First Deployment that you created in Create a First Deployment: Elasticsearch and Kibana.

Before you begin

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This example requires a deployment with an Elasticsearch cluster to work with that is not being used for anything important. If you don’t already have one, you can follow our My First Deployment example to create one.

Steps

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To add Enterprise Search to an existing deployment:

Make a PUT request to the deployment that includes this resource.

There are different options you can specify, but the most important one is that you need to include the ref_id of the Elasticsearch resource that Enterprise Search will be associated with, by using the field elasticsearch_cluster_ref_id.

curl -k -X PUT -H "Authorization: ApiKey $ECE_API_KEY" https://$COORDINATOR_HOST:12443/api/v1/deployments/$DEPLOYMENT_ID -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '
{
  "name": "My First Deployment",
  "prune_orphans": false,
  "metadata": {
    "system_owned": false,
    "hidden": false
  },
  "resources": {
    "elasticsearch": [
      {
        "region": "ece-region",
        "ref_id": "main-elasticsearch",
        "plan": {
          "cluster_topology": [
            {
              "id": "hot_content",
              "node_roles": [
                "data_hot",
                "data_content",
                "master",
                "ingest",
                "remote_cluster_client",
                "transform"
              ],
              "zone_count": 3,
              "elasticsearch": {
                "enabled_built_in_plugins": [],
                "node_attributes": {
                  "data": "hot"
                }
              },
              "instance_configuration_id": "data.default",
              "size": {
                "value": 4096,
                "resource": "memory"
              }
            },
            {
              "id": "warm",
              "node_roles": [
                "data_warm",
                "remote_cluster_client"
              ],
              "zone_count": 1,
              "elasticsearch": {
                "enabled_built_in_plugins": [],
                "node_attributes": {
                  "data": "warm"
                }
              },
              "instance_configuration_id": "data.highstorage",
              "size": {
                "value": 0,
                "resource": "memory"
              }
            },
            {
              "id": "cold",
              "node_roles": [
                "data_cold",
                "remote_cluster_client"
              ],
              "zone_count": 1,
              "elasticsearch": {
                "enabled_built_in_plugins": [],
                "node_attributes": {
                  "data": "cold"
                }
              },
              "instance_configuration_id": "data.highstorage",
              "size": {
                "value": 0,
                "resource": "memory"
              }
            },
            {
              "id": "frozen",
              "node_roles": [
                "data_frozen"
              ],
              "zone_count": 1,
              "elasticsearch": {
                "enabled_built_in_plugins": [],
                "node_attributes": {
                  "data": "frozen"
                }
              },
              "instance_configuration_id": "data.frozen",
              "size": {
                "value": 0,
                "resource": "memory"
              }
            },
            {
              "id": "coordinating",
              "node_roles": [
                "ingest",
                "remote_cluster_client"
              ],
              "zone_count": 1,
              "elasticsearch": {
                "enabled_built_in_plugins": []
              },
              "instance_configuration_id": "coordinating",
              "size": {
                "value": 0,
                "resource": "memory"
              }
            },
            {
              "id": "master",
              "node_roles": [
                "master",
                "remote_cluster_client"
              ],
              "zone_count": 1,
              "elasticsearch": {
                "enabled_built_in_plugins": []
              },
              "instance_configuration_id": "master",
              "size": {
                "value": 0,
                "resource": "memory"
              }
            },
            {
              "id": "ml",
              "node_roles": [
                "ml",
                "remote_cluster_client"
              ],
              "zone_count": 1,
              "elasticsearch": {
                "enabled_built_in_plugins": []
              },
              "instance_configuration_id": "ml",
              "size": {
                "value": 0,
                "resource": "memory"
              }
            }
          ],
          "elasticsearch": {
            "version": "8.13.2"
          },
          "deployment_template": {
            "id": "default"
          },
          "autoscaling_enabled": false
        }
      }
    ],
    "enterprise_search": [
      {
        "region": "ece-region",
        "ref_id": "main-enterprise_search",
        "elasticsearch_cluster_ref_id": "main-elasticsearch",
        "plan": {
          "cluster_topology": [
            {
              "node_type": {
                "appserver": true,
                "worker": true,
                "connector": true
              },
              "instance_configuration_id": "enterprise.search",
              "size": {
                "value": 4096,
                "resource": "memory"
              },
              "zone_count": 1
            }
          ],
          "enterprise_search": {},
          "transient": {
            "strategy": {
              "autodetect": {}
            }
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}
'

DEPLOYMENT_ID: The deployment ID for My First Deployment

After the configuration change is complete, your deployment now includes Enterprise Search. If you switch back to the Cloud UI, you can open Enterprise Search to test that it works as expected.

The My First Deployment card in the ECE UI now shows Elastic Enterprise Search sized at 4GB RAM in 1 zone

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