Elastcisearch Part 1 – Installation On Windows with “ingest-attachment” Plugin

1- Elasticsearch needs JDK installation. First we install JDK

2- Download “elasticsearch-6.x.x.msi” from
https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch

After installation you can see the elasticsearch service in services.msc like below:

And you can see the installed Elastiseach cluster in browser:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now we install “ingest-attachment” plugin for indexing the documents like text, pdf or docx files. Open Command Windows and type the command below for install plugin

 

 

 

 

Next chapter we use this elasticsearch cluster in a ASP.Net project. We use Elasticsearch .NET client. We’ll see what is NEST library and what can it does?