For the Westworld of Warcraft project, a data store for the host data is required and due to needing to learn Elastic Search for another client, it was chosen. To get started an Elastic Search cluster needed to be deployed in the Azure environment. There is a template in the Azure Marketplace that makes setup easy.

Both Azure docs and Elastic have getting started guides that should be looked over before setting up an enterprise cluster in Azure. For the Westworld of Warcraft project, there only needed to be a public end point for ingest, a public end point for consumption, and a public end point for a jump box. Using the Azure Marketplace template, Kibana was selected as the jump and the load balancer was set to external. The load balancer set to external was specific to this project because the Westworld of Warcraft clients needed a public endpoint to upload to (this changed after a better solution was found).

Once the cluster successfully deployed, a public IP address is created for the load balancer. That IP address is used by the Elastic NEST library in the application. To connect to the external load balancer, use a URI that follows the following format:

{username}:{password}@{external loadbalancer ip}:9200

Now test your configuration with the following code (replacing the URI string with your components):

public class Person
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
}

var settings = new ConnectionSettings
     (new Uri("{username}:{password}@{external loadbalancer ip}:9200"))
    .DefaultIndex("people");

var client = new ElasticClient(settings);

var person = new Person
{
    Id = 1,
    FirstName = "Martijn",
    LastName = "Laarman"
};

var indexResponse = client.IndexDocument(person);