Connection timed out error when running "flask deploy-elser"

[seialkali]

When trying to deploy the ELSER Model via the instructions in this tutorial, there is a step to run the command flask deploy-elser. When running this command, I get Error: Connection timed out.

I've tried specifying a request_timeout in the the constructor for the Search class.:

self.es = Elasticsearch(cloud_id=os.environ['ELASTIC_CLOUD_ID'],
                       api_key=os.environ['ELASTIC_API_KEY'],
                       request_timeout=300)

This allowed me to get past the download stage and start the deployment, but then I got the following error:

Error: ApiError(408, 'model_deployment_timeout_exception', 'Timed out after [30s] waiting for trained model deployment [.elser_model_2] to start. Use the trained model stats API to track the state of the deployment and try again once it has started.')

It appears that the tutorial needs to be amended to account for the client and api timeouts.

[xeraa]

As a sidenote for anyone else stumbling over this problem: The first request might take a bit longer and time out. Additional requests should be faster, so don't get discouraged by the first timeout but give it a bit of time and then try again (unless there's an error).