Creating and setting up Fleet Server
Fleet Server is a key component of the new ingest architecture in the Elastic Stack, which revolves around the Elastic Agent. Before delving into this recipe, let’s review some important concepts about Fleet and the Agent.
Fleet serves as the central management component, providing a UI within Kibana that manages Agents and their configurations at scale. The Elastic Agent is a single, unified binary responsible for data collection tasks – gathering logs, metrics, security events, and more, running on your hosts.
Fleet Server connects the Elastic Agent to Fleet and acts as a control plane for Elastic Agents. It is an essential piece if you intend to use Fleet for centralized management. The schema in Figure 1.19 illustrates the various components and their interactions:
Figure 1.19 – Architecture including Elastic Agent and Fleet Server
In this recipe, we’ll cover the setup of Fleet...