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Date Published
Author
Alexander Reelsen
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1332
Language
English
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Summary

Terraform, a popular infrastructure-as-code tool, can be used to manage Elastic Cloud resources by utilizing two specific providers: the Elastic Cloud provider and the Elasticstack provider. This integration allows users to automate the deployment, configuration, and management of Elasticsearch and Kibana instances without relying on the Elastic Cloud UI. Users can define infrastructure configurations in Terraform files and execute commands to initialize, validate, and apply these configurations, enabling seamless cluster management, including setting up Cross Cluster Search (CCS) and Cross Cluster Replication (CCR). The Elasticstack provider further enhances functionality by allowing users to manage Elasticsearch components such as index pipelines and dashboards through Terraform scripts. This approach supports efficient and automated cloud operations, and users are encouraged to provide feedback and report issues on the respective GitHub repositories for these Terraform providers.