Elastic N.V., the company behind Elasticsearch and the
Elastic Stack, has made it possible to deploy Elasticsearch and Kibana
to Kubernetes in a matter of minutes with Helm Charts (currently
available in alpha status). In tandem with the release, Elastic also
announced that it has joined the Cloud
Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), doubling down on its commitment
to supporting and promoting open cloud native technologies, and
furthering its collaboration with the CNCF community on future
development. Elastic is already aligned with the CNCF mission to promote
open cloud native technologies. Elastic builds products in an open and
transparent way and supports integrations with many key CNCF projects,
including Kubernetes and Prometheus. Elastic also has adopted standards
promoting vendor-neutral integrations, such as OpenTracing.
The rapid adoption of Kubernetes as the de-facto standard for managing
containerized workloads and services has led many Elastic users to
deploy Elasticsearch workloads to Kubernetes. Meanwhile, developers are
rapidly adopting Helm Charts as a standard way of creating, publishing,
and sharing Kubernetes applications. Elastic is launching Helm Charts
for Elasticsearch and Kibana to provide a standard, opinionated way to
install, configure, upgrade, and run these applications on Kubernetes.
This provides users with a set of best practices and templates for
deploying Elasticsearch and Kibana along with access to basic free
features, such as monitoring, Kibana Canvas and spaces. It's also easy
to upgrade to paid features such as security and machine learning.
"Our goal is to be there for our users wherever they are. Over the last
year, we invested heavily in native integration with Kubernetes to be
able to easily ship logs, metrics and APM data from services deployed on
it. I am happy that we are taking the first steps towards helping users
deploy Elasticsearch and Kibana in Kubernetes using Helm Charts," said
Shay Banon, founder and chief executive officer at Elastic. "I am also
super excited about joining CNCF to further our already strong
collaboration with CNCF, and the projects and companies involved in it."
Elastic Integrations with CNCF Projects
In addition to the introduction of Helm Charts, Elastic has already
delivered full integrations with Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing and
more. Elastic enables its users to monitor the Kubernetes platform and
associated CNCF projects through Kubernetes and Envoy. Users can monitor
base services underlying Kubernetes through Traefik and etcd modules,
and monitor applications running on top of Kubernetes through
auto-discovery of services and via Filebeat and Metricbeat. Elastic also
enables users to ingest trace data from applications instrumented in
accordance with the OpenTracing standard and ingest metrics from
Prometheus via the Metricbeat Prometheus module.
Elastic will be showcasing the alpha Helm Charts at KubeCon North
America, December 11-13, 2018 in Seattle at booth S58 as well as
demonstrating the integrations with Kubernetes, Prometheus, and
OpenTracing for full stack observability of cloud-native applications.