Azure Classic discovery plugin

The Azure Classic Discovery plugin uses the Azure Classic API to identify the addresses of seed hosts.

This plugin can be installed using the plugin manager:

sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin install discovery-azure-classic

The plugin must be installed on every node in the cluster, and each node must be restarted after installation.

You can download this plugin for offline install from https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch-plugins/discovery-azure-classic/discovery-azure-classic-8.16.1.zip. To verify the .zip file, use the SHA hash or ASC key.

The plugin can be removed with the following command:

sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin remove discovery-azure-classic

The node must be stopped before removing the plugin.