How to change primary shard count in OCP 4.5+

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • We have a large Elasticsearch cluster of many ES nodes
  • By default it seems each index has a primary shard on every node
  • To reduce load we'd like to change the primary shard count in our EFK cluster

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
    • 4.x

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