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Upgrade to OpenSearch® with Terraform

If you manage your infrastructure with our Aiven Provider for Terraform then please note that you will need to upgrade the provider to 2.4.0 or later in order to have support for OpenSearch®.

To upgrade an existing Elasticsearch service to OpenSearch using Terraform:

  • Migrate the existing Elasticsearch resource to an OpenSearch resource.
  • Update the state of Terraform to be aware of and manage the resource as an OpenSearch service.

Use the following steps to complete the upgrade safely:

  1. Change the elasticsearch_version = 7 to opensearch_version = 1. This is the equivalent to clicking the migrate button in the console.

    # Existing Elasticsearch Resource
    resource "aiven_elasticsearch" "es" {
    project = "project-name"
    cloud_name = "google-us-east4"
    plan = "business-4"
    service_name = "es"

    elasticsearch_user_config {
    elasticsearch_version = 7
    }
    }
    # Modified Elasticsearch Resource, upgrades to OpenSearch v1
    resource "aiven_elasticsearch" "es" {
    project = "project-name"
    cloud_name = "google-us-east4"
    plan = "business-4"
    service_name = "es"

    elasticsearch_user_config {
    opensearch_version = 1
    }
    }

    Once you have updated your configuration, check that the change looks correct:

    terraform plan

    Apply the upgrade:

    terraform apply

    Your service will now upgrade to OpenSearch, and if you view it in the web console, it will show as an OpenSearch service.

  2. After the migration you will need to remove the Elasticsearch service from the Terraform state.

    terraform state rm 'aiven_elasticsearch.<service-name>'
  3. Update the resource configuration to be an OpenSearch resource type, the example shown above would then look like this:

    resource "aiven_opensearch" "os" {
    project = "project-name"
    cloud_name = "google-us-east4"
    plan = "business-4"
    service_name = "es"

    opensearch_user_config {
    opensearch_version = 1
    }
    }
  4. Bring the Terraform state back in sync with your OpenSearch service by importing the service.

    terraform import 'aiven_opensearch.os' <project-name>/<service-name>

Your Elasticsearch service has been upgraded to OpenSearch with Terraform, and the resource configuration updated to use a resource type of OpenSearch.

If you have had any Elasticsearch ACLs and users, do not forget to import OpenSearch counterparts to the Terraform state.

terraform import 'aiven_opensearch_acl_config.os-acl-config' <project-name>/<service-name>
terraform import 'aiven_opensearch_acl_rule.os-acl-rule' <project-name>/<service-name>/<username>/<index>
terraform import 'aiven_opensearch_user.os-user' <project-name>/<service-name>/<username>

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