Elastic Search by example Part 2

In the previous blog post we saw how to get up and running with elastic search, we now are going to define the index and load some data into it.

Defining the index

in our quest to build the classifieds application we will need a place to store the data. In elastic data is stored in an index, think of an index as a database a logical entity which will contain all the data.

An index consists of a Type, types can be thought of as tables in a database.


using kopf or head (described in part 1) we can define an index in our elastic instance