Technical requirements
The following technical requirements should be considered in order to follow the instructions in the following sections:
- Access to a cloud platform to provision compute instances and managed Kubernetes clusters is recommended. Most cloud providers provide free tiers for those interested.
- Ansible installed on your machine. Instructions to install Ansible can be found in the Ansible installation guide: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html.
- The
kubectl
command-line tool installed for running on Kubernetes. Instructions to install kubectl can be found in the Kubernetes documentation guide: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/. - Access to code samples for
Chapter 2
of this book's git clone can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Getting-Started-with-Elastic-Stack-8.0/tree/main/Chapter2.