Access AWS VPC elasticsearch nodes from Heroku

Question

I have a VPC for elasticsearch nodes in AWS behind an internal load balancer. How can I access the nodes from a Heroku Ruby application.

I can't have the ES nodes as public facing.

Should I instead use a proxy to secure Elasticsearch and reach the proxy from the ruby app with some URL key? Is there a simpler way?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:16:06Z

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You probably want to look at a proxy Authentication mechanism. I personally would recommend using something like Squid

You can read more about its Authentication support here:

This is a another post that talks about a similar workflow to what you have:

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answered Apr 15, 2014 at 17:37

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Thank you Rico, I did some research earlier and decided to use nginx. Appreciate the help. Voted up.