Using Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) for orchestration
Managing large Elasticsearch clusters manually can often require a lot of work. Scaling clusters and managing version upgrades and so on requires administrators to plan and execute changes, often in sensitive environments. This effect can be compounded if a team is managing multiple Elasticsearch deployments within an organization. Orchestration capabilities can significantly help in such scenarios.
ECE is a subscription product offered by Elastic, giving teams the ability to provision and manage Elasticsearch deployments using an easy-to-use API or a web interface. ECE can handle rolling upgrades to deploy changes in configuration, stack version upgrades, and deployment scaling events without any manual intervention. It also supports multi-zone setups to provide high availability to Elasticsearch deployments.
ECE architecture
ECE uses Docker to run platform services as virtualized components. It relies on the following...