Elmatic

Elmatic is a portmanteau of "Elasticsearch" and "automatic," often used to describe tools, processes, or methodologies that automate the deployment, configuration, or management of Elasticsearch clusters. It suggests a system that can handle Elasticsearch operations with minimal manual intervention.

The term isn't formally defined by Elasticsearch or Elastic, the company behind it, but is rather used informally within the DevOps and system administration communities to indicate automation surrounding Elasticsearch infrastructure. The degree of automation implied by "Elmatic" can vary, ranging from automated provisioning of Elasticsearch nodes to self-healing clusters capable of automatically scaling and recovering from failures.

Common applications of "Elmatic" principles include:

• Automated Deployment: Utilizing tools like Ansible, Terraform, or Chef to automatically provision and configure Elasticsearch clusters on various platforms (cloud, on-premise, etc.).
• Configuration Management: Employing tools for centrally managing and automatically applying configuration changes across an Elasticsearch cluster.
• Monitoring and Alerting: Automating the monitoring of Elasticsearch performance metrics and generating alerts when thresholds are exceeded.
• Scaling and Recovery: Implementing automated processes for scaling Elasticsearch clusters up or down based on demand, and for automatically recovering from node failures.

The goal of "Elmatic" solutions is to reduce the operational overhead associated with managing Elasticsearch, allowing teams to focus on using Elasticsearch for their core data processing and search needs rather than spending excessive time on infrastructure maintenance.