Secure settings
editSecure settings
editYou can specify secure settings with Kubernetes secrets. The secrets should contain a key-value pair for each secure setting you want to add. ECK automatically injects these settings into the keystore on each Elasticsearch node before it starts Elasticsearch. The ECK operator continues to watch the secrets for changes and will update the Elasticsearch keystore when it detects a change.
Basic usage
editIt is possible to reference several secrets:
spec: secureSettings: - secretName: one-secure-settings-secret - secretName: two-secure-settings-secret
For the following secret, a gcs.client.default.credentials_file
key will be created in Elasticsearch’s keystore with the provided value:
apiVersion: v1 kind: Secret metadata: name: one-secure-settings-secret type: Opaque data: gcs.client.default.credentials_file: RWxhc3RpYyBDbG91ZCBvbiBLOHMgKEVDSykK
Projection of secret keys to specific paths
editYou can export a subset of secret keys and also project keys to specific paths using the entries
, key
and path
fields:
spec: secureSettings: - secretName: gcs-secure-settings entries: - key: gcs.client.default.credentials_file - key: gcs_client_1 path: gcs.client.client_1.credentials_file - key: gcs_client_2 path: gcs.client.client_2.credentials_file
For the three entries listed in the gcs-secure-settings
secret, three keys are created in Elasticsearch’s keystore:
-
gcs.client.default.credentials_file
-
gcs.client.client_1.credentials_file
-
gcs.client.client_2.credentials_file
The referenced gcs-secure-settings
secret now looks like this:
apiVersion: v1 kind: Secret metadata: name: gcs-secure-settings type: Opaque data: gcs.client.default.credentials_file: RWxhc3RpYyBDbG91ZCBvbiBLOHMgKEVDSykK gcs_client_1: RWxhc3RpYyBDbG91ZCBvbiBLOHMgKEVDSykgLSBHQ1MgY2xpZW50IDEK gcs_client_2: RWxhc3RpYyBDbG91ZCBvbiBLOHMgKEVDSykgLSBHQ1MgY2xpZW50IDIK
More examples
editCheck How to create automated snapshots for an example use case that illustrates how secure settings can be used to set up automated Elasticsearch snapshots to a GCS storage bucket.