note to self, secure elasticsearch
Recently I spun up a box on a cloud hosting provider planning to make a tens of thousdands of queries to an Elasticsearch instance on the same box. I could have done this on my own machine, but didn’t want to take up compute resources. I installed R and Elasticsearch on the box, then went about doing my thang. A day later when things were still running, the hosting provider sent me a message that apparently my box had been serving up a DDoS attack....