Managing indices

In the previous recipe, we learned how to initialize a client to send calls to an Elasticsearch cluster. In this recipe, we will learn how to manage indices via client calls.

Getting ready

You will need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, as described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

You will also need the Python-installed packages from the Creating a client recipe in this chapter.

The full code for this recipe can be found in the ch15/code/indices_management.py file.

How to do it…

In Python, managing the life cycle of your indices is very easy. To do this, perform the following steps:

1. First, you must initialize a client reading credential from environment variables (ES_USER/ES_PASSWORD) and disable ssl key verification due to the self-signed SSL certificate, as shown in the following code:

   
import elasticsearch
   import os
   import ssl
   es = elasticsearch.Elasticsearch...