Deploying standalone Elastic Agent

For advanced users who want to configure manually and manage upgrades of the agents themselves, deploying Elastic Agent in standalone mode is the way to go. In this recipe, we’ll go through the required steps to have Elastic Agent up and running without Fleet.

Note

Elastic recommends using Fleet-managed agents whenever possible as running a standalone Elastic Agent is more demanding in terms of operational workload.

Getting ready

To deploy Elastic Agent in standalone mode, a VM is required. If you have followed the Deploy Elastic Agent with Fleet recipe, you will need a separate VM for this recipe. You can follow this quick tutorial to set up a Linux VM on Google Cloud: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/focuses/56596?parent=catalog.

Make sure to have an Elastic Stack cluster ready, either self-managed or on Elastic Cloud.

The snippets of this recipe are available at the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing...