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2019


Deploy a secure instance of Elasticsearch on Kubernetes

·5 mins
It’s easy to deploy Elasticsearch on Kubernetes. You get yourself a copy of the Elastic Helm Charts and you run helm install. Job well done… or not? The default Elasticsearch configuration doesn’t enable any encryption or security mechanism, that doesn’t sound really safe! In this blog post, I’ll explain how you secure your Elasticsearch instance by enabling encryption (SSL transport and HTTP over SSL) and native authentication.