Running on Kubernetes
Elastic Stack components can be run on Kubernetes using Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK). Kubernetes is an open source platform for managing containerized workloads using declarative configuration. Kubernetes is a popular platform used by many organizations for existing workloads. ECK is a Kubernetes operator that supports the orchestration of Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Beats deployments. It can also handle rolling upgrades and configuration changes without downtime. The ECK operator allows teams that run existing workloads on Kubernetes to deploy and manage multiple Elasticsearch deployments on the same platform they already use with ease.
Note
ECK is a paid subscription feature offered by Elastic.
Provision a Kubernetes cluster to test the deployment of Elasticsearch and Kibana before running the following commands. You can use either a local or a cloud-based managed Kubernetes cluster, such as Google GKE or AWS EKS:
- Install the ECK Kubernetes...