# Shard Allocation Awareness with the "coming" Azure ARM Discovery plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-allocation-awareness-with-the-coming-azure-arm-discovery-plugin/66919>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 22, 2016, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-allocation-awareness-with-the-coming-azure-arm-discovery-plugin/66919 "2016-11-22T23:49:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![casieowen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/casieowen/32/8734_2.png) [@casieowen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/casieowen)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-allocation-awareness-with-the-coming-azure-arm-discovery-plugin/66919/1 "2016-11-22T23:49:44Z")

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Hi,

I was recently at a ops/dev elasticsearch training program. The trainer went over shard allocation awareness and mentioned something about how this feature interacts with the aws plugin. We're running in Azure, so I just looked to see about how it might interact with the azure discovery plugin. According to this, the azure discovery plugin is deprecated in 5.0, and we should use the "coming" Azure ARM Discovery Plugin instead.

Questions are:

1. Any ETA on the Azure ARM Discovery Plugin?
2. How will shard allocation awareness interact with the Azure ARM Discovery plugin? Will elasticsearch be able to read the azure availability set/update domain configs and allocate shards accordingly, or will we need to manually specify those configs?

Thanks in advance,  
Casie

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-allocation-awareness-with-the-coming-azure-arm-discovery-plugin/66919/2 "2016-11-23T00:10:50Z")

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1. sadly no.
2. if we can do something similar to what we have for ec2, like automatically tag instances, then this would become possible to use awareness on those tags

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-allocation-awareness-with-the-coming-azure-arm-discovery-plugin/66919/3 "2016-12-21T00:10:51Z")

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