There's what's called "cluster metadata", and that's where settings can be
overridden for a live cluster either permanently (to survive cluster
restart) or temporarily using the various REST APIs (see for example
cluster API). Some settings (mostly node specific configs) can only be
changed via man
I would expect this question to be popular, but still cannot google the
answer.
If I have multiple ES nodes in the cluster, each having its own
configuration file (elasticsearch.yml) - what happens if some settings in
those files go out of sync? For instance, index creation config? Which
sett
