A long awaited feature has been added, stealthily. It's fully in the documentation, but I do
not yet plan to make a big announcement about it. In actions that search through indices, you
can now specify a search_pattern to limit the number of indices that will be filtered. If
no search pattern is specified, the behavior will be the same as it ever was: it will search
through _all indices. The actions that support this option are: allocation, close,
cold2frozen, delete_indices, forcemerge, index_settings, open, replicas, shrink, and snapshot.
Bugfix
A mixup with naming conventions from the PII redacter tool got in the way of the cold2frozen
action completing properly.
Changes
Version bump: es_client==8.13.0
With the version bump to es_client comes a necessary change to calls to create a
repository. In https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-specification/pull/2255 it became
clear that using type and settings as it has been was insufficient for repository
settings, so we go back to using a request body as in older times. This change affects
esrepomgr in one place, and otherwise only in snapshot/restore testing.
Added the curator.helpers.getters.meta_getter to reduce near duplicate functions.
Changed curator.helpers.getters.get_indices to use the _cat API to pull indices. The primary
driver for this is that it avoids pulling in the full mapping and index settings when all we
really need to return is a list of index names. This should help keep memory from ballooning
quite as much. The function also now allows for a search_pattern kwarg to search only for
indices matching a pattern. This will also potentially make the initial index return list much
smaller, and the list of indices needing to be filtered that much smaller.
Tests were added to ensure that the changes for get_indices work everywhere.
Tests were added to ensure that the new search_pattern did not break anything, and does
behave as expected.
Announcement
search_patternto limit the number of indices that will be filtered. If no search pattern is specified, the behavior will be the same as it ever was: it will search through_allindices. The actions that support this option are: allocation, close, cold2frozen, delete_indices, forcemerge, index_settings, open, replicas, shrink, and snapshot.Bugfix
Changes
es_client==8.13.0es_clientcomes a necessary change to calls to create a repository. In https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-specification/pull/2255 it became clear that usingtypeandsettingsas it has been was insufficient for repository settings, so we go back to using a requestbodyas in older times. This change affectsesrepomgrin one place, and otherwise only in snapshot/restore testing.get_indiceswork everywhere.search_patterndid not break anything, and does behave as expected.