# elastic/ansible-elasticsearch

Ansible playbook for Elasticsearch

Repository: https://github.com/elastic/ansible-elasticsearch
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ansible-elasticsearch
Language: Ruby
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: ansible, ansible-role, elasticsearch, role-elasticsearch
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-06-24T04:41:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4143, "days_push": 1531, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1589, forks 854 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:08.132488+00:00)

## What it is
An Ansible role by Elastic for installing and configuring Elasticsearch 6.x/7.x (with partial 8.x support) on Linux hosts. The project has been archived and is no longer maintained.

## Use cases
- deploy elasticsearch cluster with ansible
- automate elasticsearch installation on ubuntu
- configure elasticsearch nodes via infrastructure as code
- provision elasticsearch on centos with ansible
- set up elasticsearch role in ansible playbook

## When to choose
- you need to provision Elasticsearch 6.x/7.x on traditional Linux hosts with Ansible
- you maintain an existing deployment already built on this role
- you want a simple VM-based Elasticsearch setup without Kubernetes

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - the repo is archived and unmaintained
- you run Kubernetes - use ECK instead
- you want managed Elasticsearch - use Elastic Cloud
- you need multi-instance-per-host setups - officially unsupported since 7.1.1

## Facets
- artifact type: infra-config
- maturity: abandoned
- function: deployment, configuration-management, infrastructure-as-code, search-engine
- domain: infrastructure-as-code, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: ansible-role, elasticsearch, archived, provisioning, search, devops, linux

## Member repositories
- elastic/ansible-elasticsearch (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:08.132488+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:54:50.394583+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/elastic/ansible-elasticsearch (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:08.132488+00:00, sha 5976b5ef3ade)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.