Azure Repository

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To enable Azure repositories, you have first to set your azure storage settings in elasticsearch.yml file:

cloud:
    azure:
        storage:
            my_account:
                account: your_azure_storage_account
                key: your_azure_storage_key

Note that you can also define more than one account:

cloud:
    azure:
        storage:
            my_account1:
                account: your_azure_storage_account1
                key: your_azure_storage_key1
                default: true
            my_account2:
                account: your_azure_storage_account2
                key: your_azure_storage_key2

my_account1 is the default account which will be used by a repository unless you set an explicit one.

You can set the client side timeout to use when making any single request. It can be defined globally, per account or both. It’s not set by default which means that elasticsearch is using the default value set by the azure client (known as 5 minutes).

max_retries can help to control the exponential backoff policy. It will fix the number of retries in case of failures before considering the snapshot is failing. Defaults to 3 retries. The initial backoff period is defined by Azure SDK as 30s. Which means 30s of wait time before retrying after a first timeout or failure. The maximum backoff period is defined by Azure SDK as 90s.

cloud:
    azure:
        storage:
            timeout: 10s
            my_account1:
                account: your_azure_storage_account1
                key: your_azure_storage_key1
                default: true
                max_retries: 7
            my_account2:
                account: your_azure_storage_account2
                key: your_azure_storage_key2
                timeout: 30s

In this example, timeout will be 10s per try for my_account1 with 7 retries before failing and 30s per try for my_account2 with 3 retries.

Supported Azure Storage Account types

The Azure Repository plugin works with all Standard storage accounts

  • Standard Locally Redundant Storage - Standard_LRS
  • Standard Zone-Redundant Storage - Standard_ZRS
  • Standard Geo-Redundant Storage - Standard_GRS
  • Standard Read Access Geo-Redundant Storage - Standard_RAGRS

Premium Locally Redundant Storage (Premium_LRS) is not supported as it is only usable as VM disk storage, not as general storage.

Repository settings

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The Azure repository supports following settings:

account
Azure account settings to use. Defaults to the only one if you set a single account or to the one marked as default if you have more than one.
container
Container name. You must create the azure container before creating the repository. Defaults to elasticsearch-snapshots.
base_path
Specifies the path within container to repository data. Defaults to empty (root directory).
chunk_size
Big files can be broken down into chunks during snapshotting if needed. The chunk size can be specified in bytes or by using size value notation, i.e. 1g, 10m, 5k. Defaults to 64m (64m max)
compress
When set to true metadata files are stored in compressed format. This setting doesn’t affect index files that are already compressed by default. Defaults to false.
readonly
Makes repository read-only. Defaults to false.
location_mode
primary_only or secondary_only. Defaults to primary_only. Note that if you set it to secondary_only, it will force readonly to true.

Some examples, using scripts:

# The simpliest one
PUT _snapshot/my_backup1
{
    "type": "azure"
}

# With some settings
PUT _snapshot/my_backup2
{
    "type": "azure",
    "settings": {
        "container": "backup-container",
        "base_path": "backups",
        "chunk_size": "32m",
        "compress": true
    }
}


# With two accounts defined in elasticsearch.yml (my_account1 and my_account2)
PUT _snapshot/my_backup3
{
    "type": "azure",
    "settings": {
        "account": "my_account1"
    }
}
PUT _snapshot/my_backup4
{
    "type": "azure",
    "settings": {
        "account": "my_account2",
        "location_mode": "primary_only"
    }
}

Example using Java:

client.admin().cluster().preparePutRepository("my_backup_java1")
    .setType("azure").setSettings(Settings.builder()
        .put(Storage.CONTAINER, "backup-container")
        .put(Storage.CHUNK_SIZE, new ByteSizeValue(32, ByteSizeUnit.MB))
    ).get();

Repository validation rules

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According to the containers naming guide, a container name must be a valid DNS name, conforming to the following naming rules:

  • Container names must start with a letter or number, and can contain only letters, numbers, and the dash (-) character.
  • Every dash (-) character must be immediately preceded and followed by a letter or number; consecutive dashes are not permitted in container names.
  • All letters in a container name must be lowercase.
  • Container names must be from 3 through 63 characters long.