Updating plugins with the ansible\elasticsearch playbook

biggtimber · August 21, 2020, 7:07pm

How do you use the ansible\elasticsearch playbook to update the es_plugins? I did an update from 7.8 to 7.9 and it's not updating the plugin.

Julien_MAILLERET · September 16, 2020, 7:06am

Hi @biggtimber,
Elasticsearch plugins should be reinstalled when Elasticsearch is updated.

es_plugins_reinstall should be set to true when Elasticsearch package install task changed:

github.com

elastic/ansible-elasticsearch/blob/master/tasks/elasticsearch-plugins.yml#L3-L7


# es_plugins_reinstall will be set to true if elasticsearch_install_from_repo.changed or elasticsearch_install_from_package.changed
# i.e. we have changed ES version(or we have clean installation of ES), or if no plugins listed. Otherwise it is false and requires explicitly setting.
- name: set fact es_plugins_reinstall to true
  set_fact: es_plugins_reinstall=true
  when: (((debian_elasticsearch_install_from_repo is defined and debian_elasticsearch_install_from_repo.changed) or (redhat_elasticsearch_install_from_repo is defined and redhat_elasticsearch_install_from_repo.changed)) or (elasticsearch_install_from_package is defined and elasticsearch_install_from_package.changed)) or es_plugins is not defined or es_plugins is none

If that's not the case, you can still force es_plugins_reinstall to true, however, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be set to true automatically when Elasticsearch is upgraded.

Can you provide your Ansible playbook and logs so we can investigate?

biggtimber · October 2, 2020, 7:38pm

hmm. I didnt' change that variable anywhere in my playbook, but I am doing other things in there that might be causing some failures. Let me break them out into seperate ones and mess with it some more. Thanks.

system · October 30, 2020, 7:39pm

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