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elasticsearch stack monitoring on kubernetes(ECK)

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UPDATE: Since ECK operator 1.7 there is a new way to deploy stack monitoring. I’ve added the section at the end to cover for this. The old method still works and depending on your use case you can still use the old method versus new. The main difference between the OLD and NEW is that the OLD method uses filebeat and metricbeat pods while the new method uses filebeat and metricbeat sidecar containers. Lets get started with monitoring your elastic stack in kubernetes. There are multiple ways of doing this and I will divide this up into 3 sections, using… Continue Reading →

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Fleet server with elasticsearch in docker container

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UPDATE – 3/30/2022: another 8.1.x update to automatically populate the CA trusted fingerprint and the Advanced YAML settings to add the generated ca.crt onto fleet for easier use – Please go to the bottom of the article for an explaination UPDATE: 8.1.0 release introduced some changes where the default policies are no longer created on default and you will need to manually create it. I will add the steps to the end of the document Fleet server in docker container Fleet & Fleet server was released as of 7.14.0 and it uses the elastic-agent as a single, unified way to… Continue Reading →

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Elastic Cloud on kubernetes (ECK) on minikube

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ECK is Elastic cloud on kubernetes – Kubernetes Operator pattern that extends basic kubernetes orchestration to easily deploy, secure, upgrade Elasticsearch and the rest of the stack such as kibana, logstash, various beats, and much more. In my previous article I wrote about my kube.sh script which is a wrapper that installs a minikube environment to run your kubernetes projects. We will use the wrapper to deploy our kubernetes environment and start deploying elasticsearch using ECK. The steps below are not limited to my minikube wrapper script but you can follow the same process for any kubernetes environment. Lets get… Continue Reading →