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Create an Elasticsearch cluster and install Kibana

You can use the Elastic Helm Charts, or a local deployment.

Set the credentials

There are four files to edit to create a k8s secret when you are connectign to self managed Elasticsearch and Kibana (self managed is effectively anything other than the managed Elasticsearch Service in Elastic Cloud). The files are:

  1. ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS
  2. ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD
  3. ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME
  4. KIBANA_HOST

Set these with the information for your Elasticsearch cluster and your Kibana host. Here are some examples

ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS

  1. A nodeGroup from the Elastic Elasticseach Helm Chart: 
    ["http://elasticsearch-master.default.svc.cluster.local:9200"]
  2. A single Elasticsearch node running on a Mac where your Beats are running in Docker for Mac: 
    ["http://host.docker.internal:9200"]
  3. Two Elasticsearch nodes running in VMs or on physical hardware: 
    ["http://host1.example.com:9200", "http://host2.example.com:9200"]

ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD

Just the password, no whitespace or quotes:

changeme

ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME

Just the username, no whitespace or quotes:

elastic

KIBANA_HOST

  1. The Kibana instance from the Elastic Kibana Helm Chart. The subdomain default refers to the default namespace. If you have deployed the Helm Chart using a different namespace, then your subdomain will be different: 
    "kibana-kibana.default.svc.cluster.local:5601"
  2. A Kibana instance running on a Mac where your Beats are running in Docker for Mac: 
    "host.docker.internal:5601"
  3. Two Elasticsearch nodes running in VMs or on physical hardware: 
    "host1.example.com:5601"

Edit the required files:

vi ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS
vi ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD
vi ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME
vi KIBANA_HOST

Create a Kubernetes secret

This command creates a secret in the Kubernetes system level namespace (kube-system) based on the files you just edited:

kubectl create secret generic dynamic-logging \
  --from-file=./ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS \
  --from-file=./ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD \
  --from-file=./ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME \
  --from-file=./KIBANA_HOST \
  --namespace=kube-system

Continue with the install

Open README-Main.md and complete the tutorial