1. Creating an Elasticsearch cluster
You probably guessed, Elasticsearch is the one to use here. We will start by creating our first Elasticsearch cluster!
First, we head over to the Elasticsearch dashboard and create a new domain. We select development and testing, and call it tw-data-domain-1.
We only want 1 node for now, and let's select t2small for the instance type. The number of nodes and instance type control how much data the Elasticsearch instance can handle and how fast.
Click next, and select public access. We want this dashboard to be public and allow anyone to access it. Under access policy, select custom, then ipv4, put an asterisk under principal and under action allow. This will allow anyone from any IP to access our instance. Since we're not handling any secret data, this is ok.
Click next, then confirm. It will take about ten-fifteen minutes to set up our instance.
2. Let's practice!