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Helm charts to install the Elastic Stack using minikube

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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Elastic Cloud on kubernetes (ECK) on minikube

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