We have to just run the vagrant up command.

export CLUSTER_TYPE=multi
vagrant up

Status of each vagrant machine forming the Elastic stack topology can be checked using

$ vagrant status
Current machine states:

esserver                  not created (virtualbox)
logstash-filebeat         not created (virtualbox)
kibana                    not created (virtualbox)

To create and provision the topology use below command

vagrant up

Advisable to run vagrant status again to check and ensure all the vagrant machines are running. The result should be something like the following:

$ vagrant status
Current machine states:

esserver                  running (virtualbox)
logstash-filebeat         running (virtualbox)
kibana                    running (virtualbox)

Automatically elasticsearch cluster,kibana,logstash and filebeat will be configured and pipeline will be build for ready to use.

http://127.0.0.1:9200

http://127.0.0.1:5601

Insteasd if each vm has to be created and provisioned independently, below commands can be used for each of them:

example :vagrant up esmaster

To ssh into any of the machine use

vagrant ssh "machine-name"
example : vagrant ssh esmaster

To stop all the vagrant machine (or specify specific vagrant machine)

vagrant halt

To stop and deletes all traces of all the vagrant machine (or specify specific vagrant machine)

vagrant destroy

Below command watches all local directories of any rsync synced folders and automatically initiates an rsync transfer when changes are detected

vagrant rsync-auto

Environment variable CLUSTER_TYPE can be used to create single or multi node cluster. CLUSTER_TYPE= 'multi' will spin up the Elasticsearch cluster with 1 master node and 2 data nodes, each in separate vagrant machines.

NOTE kibana vagrant machine is allocated 2 gb memory and 2 cpu. ES master node is allocated 1 gb memory