Originally published on Sep 17, 2019, at ObjectRocket.com/blog
We are happy to announce that the Rackspace ObjectRocket offering now includes Elasticsearch® version 7.2.1 (and previous versions), hosted on our ObjectRocket platform.
General Availability = stability and support
Rackspace ObjectRocket has been offering a hosted Elasticsearch offering since version 1.5. We have a lot of time and experience invested in our original hosting platform, which has been running for five years, so we’re confident in our ability to host and support all of our customers’ needs, no matter what they are. We are happy to announce that our offerings include Elasticsearch version 7.2.1 (plus earlier versions), hosted on our new ObjectRocket platform.
When we set out to build a whole new hosting platform almost two years ago, we started on the long path of building up that experience and confidence into a new and more powerful platform. We took it as an opportunity to improve upon the original product, but we have taken a slow and measured approach in launching our new product to ensure it was just right. The top two priorities are achieving production-ready stability and making sure that our support teams have the right tools to do what they do best.
This product entered alpha two years ago, and we quickly got one of our first customers to participate in a load test with a production workload. Since then, we continued to refine and then entered Beta in March 2019. From there, we continued on another six months of testing, improvements, and refinements to get us to General Availability. Our team, our platform, and the product itself is ready for whatever you want to throw at it.
Elasticsearch features available now
Along with stability and support, we launched with the following features:
- Security: We protect your cluster with TLS-encrypted connections, ACL/IP whitelisting, role-based access control, and encryption at rest.
- Dedicated clustered instances: Your instance runs on a minimum of three dedicated containers. No limits on indexes or connections.
- Kibana® and Cerebro® included: All instances come with an instance of Kibana for visualization and Cerebro for admin tools.
- Automated scaling: Our API enables you to add nodes to your cluster when you need them and remove nodes when you don’t.
- Stats and monitoring: Our metrics service provides visibility into the performance and status of your instance.
That’s just a sampling of what we have in place today, and there’s a lot more coming! Contact us with any questions about the General Availability release of Elasticsearch on our hosting platform or to learn more about our offerings.
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