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New elastic kubernetes script – deploy-elastick8s.sh

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Changelogs 2023/02/26 Added legacy APM server integration The old deploy-eck.sh script have grown and matured a bit and now it encompasses helm charts and native installs. I renamed the script to be more inclusive of its features. All of the older articles will reference this post. The new script is located deploy-elastick8s.sh This script was designed to easily stand up elastic and its stack on kubernetes in various modes to easily test and replicate issues for troubleshooting and to setup examples for various workloads. The deployments that this script creates is not for production use but to be used as… Continue Reading →

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Helm charts to install the Elastic Stack using minikube

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On the previous post we used the minikube wrapper kube.sh to install ECK – Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes. ECK uses an operator that was created by Elastic to deploy and orchestrate the Elastic Stack in kubernetes. ECK is not the only way to install elasticsearch in kubernetes, you can also use Helm charts to install the Stack. What is the difference between an operator and helm charts? Helm Helm is a package management system for kubernetes. The packaging format is called charts. In OS terms its like rpm or deb packages. An application is packed into a package that can… Continue Reading →

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minikube wrapper – kubernetes

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What is minikube? Minikube was developed to allow users to run Kubernetes LOCALLY. When you run minikube it will launch a minikube host as a container/VM depending on the driver and runs a single-node k8s cluster. Why minikube? Previously whenever I needed to test anything in the kubernetes environment I would stand up a full suite of servers 4 actually, 3 workers and 1 master node on a VM and it was very time-consuming to set up and use and also resource-intensive for my tiny home lab. I needed a way to create an environment fast and make it re-producible… 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 →