How to use Elasticsearch on Heroku

Question

I've just finished watching both Railscasts' episodes on Elasticsearch. I've also went ahead and implemented it into my rails application (3.1) and everything is working great. How I want to deploy my app to Heroku but I'm unsure how to get Elasticsearch working on Heroku (specifically on a cedar stack).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Heroku now supports ElasticSearch with the Bonsai add on. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/bonsai

Answer 2

You can very easily [and freely ;-)] roll your own ElasticSearch server on Amazon EC2, and just connect to it with your app. This is what we're doing, and it's working nicely...

http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/elasticsearch-on-ec2/