Templates and Alias management example (ES 2.x)

gistfile1.txt

PUT /test {
  "mappings" : {
    "my_type" : {
      "dynamic_templates" : [
         {
           "my_integer_fields" : {
              "match" : "i_*",
              "mapping" : { "type" : "integer" }
           }
         },
         {
            "my_multi_strings" : {
               "match_mapping_type" : "string",
               "mapping" : {
                  "type" : "string", "index" : "analyzed",
                  "fields" : {
                     "sort" : { "type" : "string", "analyzer" : "alpha_sort"},
                     "raw" : { "type" : "string", "index" : "not_analyzed" }
                  }
               }
            }
         }
         ...

PUT _template/my_data_template
{
  "template": "my_data*",
  "settings": {
    "number_of_shards": 1
  },
  "mappings": {
    "_default_": {
      "_all": {
        "enabled": false
      }
    }
  },
  "order": 10
}

#https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/override-default-template.html

DELETE _template/order_prefix
GET _template/order_prefix
GET _template

#Aliases
POST /_aliases
{
    "actions" : [
        { "remove" : { "index" : "employees1", "alias" : "current" } },
        { "add" :    { "index" : "employees2", "alias" : "current" } }
    ]
}

POST /_aliases
{
    "actions" : [
        { "add" : { "index" : "employees", "alias" : "contacts" } },
        { "add" : { "index" : "clients", "alias" : "contacts" } }
    ]
}

POST /_aliases
{
    "actions" : [
        { "remove" : { "index" : "test1", "aliases" : [ "alias1" ,"alias2" ... ] } },
       ...
    ]
}

POST
{
    "actions" : [
        {
            "add" : {
                 "index" : "employees",
                 "alias" : "sales",
                 "filter" : { "term" : { "department" : "sales" } }
            }
        }
    ]
}