Elastic Fluentd Kibana on Kubernetes
There are lots of articles explaining the installations of EFK stack individually or via scripts which can solve the purpose of getting the Stack up and running.
In this article I want to have a complete installation as a suite of EFK stack with X-pack features such as Authentication and SSL with Elastic 7.6.2.
At the end of the article I have linked the git repository with complete set!
From official Elastic doc.
Elastic released some security features for free as part of the default distribution (Basic license) starting in Elastic Stack 6.8 and 7.1. This new feature offering includes the ability to encrypt network traffic using SSL, create and manage users, define roles that protect index and cluster-level access, and fully secure Kibana.
After this article you shall be able to install EFK on your cluster up and running. As per the project needs and scope of the usage you can make use of different subscriptions provided by Elastic.
Pre-requisites
- Understanding of Elastic Search (Basic). I shall soon write how ES stack can be used.
- Basic understanding of fluentd and kibana to begin.
- Understanding of Kubernetes (Moderate). If working with cloud provider more understand…
