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How to increase space for your elasticsearch instances in k8s on ECK

One of the most common issues of running elasticsearch on k8s is the need to increase space for your elasticsearch-data volume. It is very simple to do so lets demo it. I stood up an environment using my deploy-eck.sh script $ kubectl get pods,pvc NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE pod/eck-lab-es-data-0 1/1 Running 0 112m pod/eck-lab-es-data-1 1/1 Running 0 112m pod/eck-lab-es-data-2 1/1 Running 0 112m pod/eck-lab-es-master-0 1/1 Running 0 112m pod/eck-lab-es-master-1 1/1 Running 0 112m pod/eck-lab-es-master-2 1/1 Running 0 8m12s pod/eck-lab-kb-794785d7f7-zxqlk 1/1 Running 0 110m NAME STATUS VOLUME CAPACITY ACCESS MODES STORAGECLASS AGE persistentvolumeclaim/elasticsearch-data-eck-lab-es-data-0 Bound pvc-4081bb0d-1664-46fe-97bd-08520075bbdc 1Gi RWO standard 112m persistentvolumeclaim/elasticsearch-data-eck-lab-es-data-1… Continue Reading

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Google Cloud scripts

At work we use google cloud as our lab to stand up and take down instances. As I work, I noticed that I usually stand up the same type of instance and run the same post install all the time so instead of doing this manually I decided to create a script for the compute instance and another for the kubernetes cluster. Compute Instance gcp.sh – script to automate creating and deletion of compute instance script is located: https://github.com/jlim0930/scripts/blob/master/gcp.sh edit gcp_name & gcp_project to match your environment. Also zone and region as needed – The script will stand up a… Continue Reading

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Create secrets to use with your elastic stack to create keystore in kubernetes – minio example – helm example included

For this example I will stand up a very simple minio server on my localhost. Create kubernetes secrets for the s3.client.default.access_key and s3.client.default.secret_key. Configure my elasticsearch pod with initContainer to install the repository-s3 plugin and secureSettings to create the keystore. minio server This is a very simple, not secure setup just for testing $ mkdir data $ wget https://dl.min.io/server/minio/release/linux-amd64/minio $ chmod +x minio $ ./minio server ./data API: http://192.168.1.251:9000 http://172.17.0.1:9000 http://192.168.122.1:9000 http://192.168.49.1:9000 http://127.0.0.1:9000 RootUser: minioadmin RootPass: minioadmin Console: http://192.168.1.251:36012 http://172.17.0.1:36012 http://192.168.122.1:36012 http://192.168.49.1:36012 http://127.0.0.1:36012 RootUser: minioadmin RootPass: minioadmin Command-line: https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-client-quickstart-guide $ mc alias set myminio http://192.168.1.251:9000 minioadmin minioadmin Instead of getting… Continue Reading

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How to run setup for various beats(filebeat, metricbeat, & more) in kubernetes to load dashboards and more

Whenever you install beats or update beats its best if you run the setup so that the setup will update your index templates, ILM, visualizations, etc. I found that its always best before installing or upgrading to use a seed host to just run the setup before deploying or updating across your environment and to turn off template updates and dashboard loading on the beats locally so that your elasticsearch cluster is not flooded. In a baremetal environment this is easy to do but in docker and in kubernetes it gets a bit difficult. Sure you can setup a initContainer… Continue Reading

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ECE(elastic cloud enterprise) snapshot repository using object storage(minio) with self-signed TLS

Just FYI this is a complete rewrite of the previous article. It should be better organized and more closely align with real world situations. We will stand up a minio server with self-signed or internally signed SSL certificate that is not publicly trusted. This guide will work with any s3 compliant object storage not just minio. The certificate that we will create will be for internal use but you can and should create a more secure certificate to be used in your environment. If you have s3 compliant object storage with publicly trusted signed SSL certificate then all you would… Continue Reading

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Elastic Cloud on kubernetes (ECK) on minikube

ECK is Elastic cloud on kubernetes – Kubernetes Operator pattern that extends basic kubernetes orchestration to easily deploy, secure, upgrade Elasticsearch and the rest of the stack such as kibana, logstash, various beats, and much more. In my previous article I wrote about my kube.sh script which is a wrapper that installs a minikube environment to run your kubernetes projects. We will use the wrapper to deploy our kubernetes environment and start deploying elasticsearch using ECK. The steps below are not limited to my minikube wrapper script but you can follow the same process for any kubernetes environment. Lets get… Continue Reading