Just opensourced a starcluster plugin for provisioning elasticsearch clusters automatically in the cloud.

What is Starcluster?

Starcluster is great for spinning up clusters of ec2 nodes quickly for some analytics / data chomping.

If you’re not familiar take a look at this very cool screencast:

Starcluster and Elasticsearch = best friends

Elasticsearch is a great fit - it runs smoothly on ec2 and for ease of searching big data is second to none.