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Install elasticsearch using enrollment tokens

Posted on by jlim0930

I have not installed elasticsearch using rpm/tarball in a super long time since I use my deploy-elastic.sh script to install elasticsearch onto docker containers. Decided to have a look today on the new way of standing up a cluster using enrollment tokens. Following the steps from https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/rpm.html – a bit adapated for my liking. Install elasticsearch onto first host: import GPG keys # rpm –import https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch create /etc/yum.repos.d/elasticsearch.repo [elasticsearch] name=Elasticsearch repository for 8.x packages baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/8.x/yum gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch enabled=1 autorefresh=1 type=rpm-md install elasticsearch via yum # yum install elasticsearch -y … Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Installing:… Continue Reading →

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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 →