Commit e3af1619 authored by Mike Barretta's avatar Mike Barretta Committed by Russell Dickenson

Updated Elasticsearch install docs link to point to 6.8 vs "current" as the...

Updated Elasticsearch install docs link to point to 6.8 vs "current" as the current version is 7.3  (which isn't supported by gitlab). Also added a link to Elastic Cloud as an alternative option to AWS Elasticsearch Service.
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## Installing Elasticsearch ## Installing Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is _not_ included in the Omnibus packages. You will have to Elasticsearch is _not_ included in the Omnibus packages. You will have to
[install it yourself](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/install-elasticsearch.html "Elasticsearch installation documentation") [install it yourself](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/install-elasticsearch.html "Elasticsearch 6.8 installation documentation")
whether you are using the Omnibus package or installed GitLab from source. whether you are using the Omnibus package or installed GitLab from source.
Providing detailed information on installing Elasticsearch is out of the scope Providing detailed information on installing Elasticsearch is out of the scope
of this document. of this document.
NOTE: **Note:** NOTE: **Note:**
Elasticsearch should be installed on a separate server, whether you install Elasticsearch should be installed on a separate server, whether you install
it yourself or by using the it yourself or use a cloud hosted offering like Elastic's [Elasticsearch Service](https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch/service) (available on AWS, GCP, or Azure) or the
[Amazon Elasticsearch](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/latest/developerguide/es-gsg.html) [Amazon Elasticsearch](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/latest/developerguide/es-gsg.html) service. Running Elasticsearch on the same server as GitLab is not recommended
service. Running Elasticsearch on the same server as GitLab is not recommended and will likely cause a degradation in GitLab instance performance.
and it will likely cause performance degradation on the GitLab installation.
NOTE: **Note:** NOTE: **Note:**
**For a single node Elasticsearch cluster the functional cluster health status will be yellow** (will never be green) because the primary shard is allocated but replicas can not be as there is no other node to which Elasticsearch can assign a replica. **For a single node Elasticsearch cluster the functional cluster health status will be yellow** (will never be green) because the primary shard is allocated but replicas can not be as there is no other node to which Elasticsearch can assign a replica.
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