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How to run setup for various beats(filebeat, metricbeat, & more) in kubernetes to load dashboards and more

Posted on by jlim0930

Whenever you install beats or update beats its best if you run the setup so that the setup will update your index templates, ILM, visualizations, etc. I found that its always best before installing or upgrading to use a seed host to just run the setup before deploying or updating across your environment and to turn off template updates and dashboard loading on the beats locally so that your elasticsearch cluster is not flooded. In a baremetal environment this is easy to do but in docker and in kubernetes it gets a bit difficult. Sure you can setup a initContainer… Continue Reading →

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Kubernetes 101 & 102

Posted on by jlim0930

Lets dive into kubernetes(will refer to it as k8s from here on out). What is k8s? according to wikipedia: Kubernetes (commonly stylized as k8s) is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management. It was originally designed by Google and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It aims to provide a “platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts”. It works with a range of container tools, including Docker. Many cloud services offer a Kubernetes-based platform or infrastructure as a service (PaaS or IaaS) on which Kubernetes can… Continue Reading →