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Version: 3.1

Scale an Elasticsearch cluster with Portworx on Kubernetes

The following instructions explain how to scale an Elasticsearch cluster with Portworx on Kubernetes.

Portworx runs as a Disaggregated or Converged Deployment architectures model. When you add a new node to your Kubernetes cluster, Portworx will run on the node with the model you chose. Refer to Deployment architectures for Portworx for more details.

  1. Scale your Elasticsearch Cluster. Edit the Elasticsearch object and update spec.nodeSets.count to 4:

    kubectl -n elastic-system edit Elasticsearch
    elasticsearch.elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/elasticsearch edited

  2. List the associated pods to see the newly created Elasticsearch instance:

    watch kubectl -n elastic-system get pods --selector='elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/cluster-name=elasticsearch'
    NAME                      READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
    elasticsearch-es-node-0   1/1     Running   0          67m
    elasticsearch-es-node-1   1/1     Running   0          67m
    elasticsearch-es-node-2   1/1     Running   0          67m
    elasticsearch-es-node-3   1/1     Running   0          3m43s

  3. List Elasticsearch cluster nodes:

    kubectl exec elasticsearch-es-node-0 -n elastic-system -- curl -u "elastic:$ESPASSWORD"  -k "https://elasticsearch-es-http:9200/_cat/nodes?v"
    ip              heap.percent ram.percent cpu load_1m load_5m load_15m node.role   master name
    192.168.143.10            43          82   0    1.64    2.03     2.04 cdfhilmrstw -      elasticsearch-es-node-2
    192.168.148.113           57          77   7    2.73    3.55     2.83 cdfhilmrstw -      elasticsearch-es-node-3
    192.168.147.138           26          84   1    1.20    1.55     1.72 cdfhilmrstw -      elasticsearch-es-node-0
    192.168.45.31             27          85   1    1.30    2.56     2.65 cdfhilmrstw *      elasticsearch-es-node-1

  4. List Elasticsearch PVCs:

    kubectl -n elastic-system get pvc
    NAME                                         STATUS   VOLUME                                     CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   STORAGECLASS   AGE
    elasticsearch-data-elasticsearch-es-node-0   Bound    pvc-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-c7a3e5555f41   50Gi       RWO            px-csi-db      69m
    elasticsearch-data-elasticsearch-es-node-1   Bound    pvc-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-d1e920903be2   50Gi       RWO            px-csi-db      69m
    elasticsearch-data-elasticsearch-es-node-2   Bound    pvc-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-7f678ca8ba07   50Gi       RWO            px-csi-db      69m
    elasticsearch-data-elasticsearch-es-node-3   Bound    pvc-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-8452579d08d4   50Gi       RWO            px-csi-db      5m52s

  5. List Elasticsearch Portworx volumes:

    kubectl exec $PX_POD -n <px-namespace> -- /opt/pwx/bin/pxctl volume list
    ID                      NAME                                            SIZE    HA      SHARED  ENCRYPTED       PROXY-VOLUME    IO_PRIORITY     STATUS                          SNAP-ENABLED
    876851488987433344      pvc-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-8452579d08d4        50 GiB  3       no      no              no              LOW             up - attached on 10.13.25.216   no
    12772348667588675       pvc-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-7f678ca8ba07        50 GiB  3       no      no              no              LOW             up - attached on 10.13.25.240   no
    1013728801369127826     pvc-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-d1e920903be2        50 GiB  3       no      no              no              LOW             up - attached on 10.13.25.29    no
    695731562422595940      pvc-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-c7a3e5555f41        50 GiB  3       no      no              no              LOW             up - attached on 10.13.25.229   no
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