Installing the Elastic Stack with ECK
ECK is the official Kubernetes operator for automating the deployment and management of Elasticsearch and other Elastic components on Kubernetes. ECK enables the use of Kubernetes-native tools and APIs to manage Elasticsearch clusters, offering capabilities for monitoring and securing them. It supports scaling, rolling upgrades, availability zone awareness, and the implementation of hot-warm-cold storage architectures. ECK allows for the exploitation of Elasticsearch’s power and flexibility on Kubernetes, both on-premises and in the cloud. In this guide, we will first install the ECK operator in a Kubernetes cluster and then use it to deploy an Elasticsearch cluster and Kibana.
Technical requirements
Ensure you have a Kubernetes cluster ready before deploying ECK and the Elastic Stack. For this recipe, you can use either minikube or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes also supports other Kubernetes distributions...
