Creating a client

The official Elasticsearch clients are designed to manage a lot of issues that are typically required to create solid REST clients, such as retry if there are network issues, autodiscovery of other nodes of the cluster, and data conversions for communicating on the HTTP layer.

In this recipe, we'll learn how to instantiate a client with varying options.

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, which we described how to get in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

A Python 2.x or 3.x distribution should be installed. In Linux and the Mac OS X system, it's already provided in the standard installation...