Company
Date Published
Author
Aravind Putrevu
Word count
941
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The text provides a comprehensive guide on deploying the Elastic Stack on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) as the operator, which is essential for managing, scaling, upgrading, and securely deploying the Elastic Stack. It outlines the steps to create an AKS cluster, install ECK, and set up an Elasticsearch cluster and Kibana, followed by detailed instructions on deploying Metricbeat to collect metrics and events from an Azure virtual machine. The process also includes configuring Elasticsearch and Kibana credentials in Metricbeat to enable data shipping and dashboard loading, as well as enabling the Azure module in Metricbeat for ingesting observability data from Azure Cloud. The guide concludes by encouraging the use of ECK for deploying secure Elastic Stack solutions on Kubernetes, offering the possibility of additional applications such as Elastic APM and cross-cluster features, and provides resources for further learning and support.