52-Node Bare-Metal Elasticsearch Cluster — Built in a Weekend

Designed and built one of the largest search indexing clusters for a global media intelligence company — 52 bare-metal nodes in Network Redux’s private cloud. Completed over a single weekend, in between flights from Portland to Kochi.

Context

A global media intelligence company needed a large-scale Elasticsearch cluster for search indexing, deployed on dedicated bare-metal infrastructure in a private cloud environment. The project required end-to-end delivery — from network architecture through OS provisioning to production handover — on an aggressive timeline.