Installing and upgrading ElasticSearch on Windows Azure / CentOS

es.sh

#default login for Azure is azureuser
cd ~
sudo yum update
sudo yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk -y

wget http://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.90.0.Beta1.tar.gz -O elasticsearch.tar.gz

tar -xf elasticsearch.tar.gz
rm elasticsearch.tar.gz
mv elasticsearch-* elasticsearch
sudo mv elasticsearch /usr/local/share

curl -L http://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-servicewrapper/tarball/master | tar -xz
mv *servicewrapper*/service /usr/local/share/elasticsearch/bin/
rm -Rf *servicewrapper*
sudo /usr/local/share/elasticsearch/bin/service/elasticsearch install
sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch start

#curl http://localhost:9200 

# only if server has < 1Gb RAM
vim /usr/local/share/elasticsearch/bin/service/elasticsearch.conf
# in this config file, set the RAM usage to a lower level than that of the server
 
sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch start

#optional: create Image for MS Azure http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/linux/how-to-guides/capture-an-image/
sudo waagent -force –deprovision
export HISTSIZE=0
logout

#UPGRADING ElasticSearch
wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.90.0.tar.gz -O elasticsearch.tar.gz

tar -xf elasticsearch.tar.gz
rm elasticsearch.tar.gz
mv elasticsearch-* elasticsearch

sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch stop

#manually delete lib folder in /usr/local/share/elasticsearch/lib
sudo rm /usr/local/share/elasticsearch/lib/*

#sync new files
sudo rsync -avh elasticsearch/* /usr/local/share/elasticsearch

sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch start