How do I manage schema/mapping migrations/evolutions in Elasticsearch?

Question

Flyway is a very convenient schema migration/evolution tool in the RDBMS world. I\'m looking for something similar for ES.

Even though ES is different from RDBMS and I g

Answer 1

For create-new-index-then-load-data-into-it-then-update-alias, what we do is:

1. We use templates for the mapping
2. And we use curator to create/update the index/alias automatically.

Still the curator has to be run periodically, but we run it in a cron job.