Hi could anyone suggest me a good elastic client for elixir? I came across elastix (https://github.com/werbitzky/elastix) and tirexs(https://github.com/Zatvobor/tirexs). But they do not seem to show any examples on authentication part of the API… Would be grateful if someone suggests me the how to achieve this.
Thanks in advance…
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Hey, have you given a look at elistix? Super simple and no new DSL to learn!
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I’ve used elastix and have good luck with it. It’s pretty small and simple. The official elasticsearch documentation is great.
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Thank you paulsullivanjr. Yes I tried… but it does not seem to give any example on how to use credentials and configs to mention certificates… Not sure how to do that…
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Thanks for the reply pablofullana… I have not tried it… but how do I set basic auth credentials and make it work with ssl?
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Check the links out that may be helpful. I haven’t done this yet and don’t know what the license looks like but these links may provide some help. Hope it helps.
https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/security
http://blog.raffaeu.com/archive/2016/02/17/enable-authentication-in-elasticsearch.aspx
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It looks like elastix supports the Shield authentication parameters - you’d just need to set the appropriate options under :elastix in your config.exs: https://github.com/werbitzky/elastix/blob/master/lib/elastix/http.ex#L62
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I can confirm that tirexs can handle authentication against ES. Either embed the username password in the URI string param (http://user:password@hostname:port/path) or in the %URI{} object set userinfo: "user:password". For runtime configurability, do it via conform 
On the ES side you need to install x-pack and configure accordingly. Reasonably easy to automate locking down the pre-seeded users and create your own using curl from bash/puppet/ansible.
x-pack requires a license, but will work for free for 30 days. It’s more than enough for dev&test.
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