title: Securing elasticsearch
body: <p>I am completely new to elasticsearch but I like it very much. The only thing I can't find and can't get done is to secure elasticsearch for production systems. I read a lot about using nginx as a proxy in front of elasticsearch but I never used <code>nginx</code> and never worked with proxies.</p>
  
  <p>Is this the typical way to secure elasticsearch in production systems?</p>
  
  <p>If so, are there any tutorials or nice reads that could help me to implement this feature. I really would like to use elasticsearch in our production system instead of solr and tomcat.</p>