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Deploy on Elastic Cloud

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Deploy on Elastic Cloud

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To use Fleet for central management, a Fleet Server must be running and accessible to your hosts. Provisioning Fleet Server on Elastic Cloud as part of the hosted Elasticsearch Service is one of several approaches to setting up Fleet Server.

Fleet Server Cloud deployment model

Elastic Cloud runs a hosted version of Integrations Server that includes Fleet Server. No extra setup is required unless you want to scale your deployment.

Compatibility and prerequisites

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Fleet Server is compatible with the following Elastic products:

  • Elastic Stack 7.13 or later.

    • For version compatibility: Elasticsearch >= Fleet Server >= Elastic Agent (except for bugfix releases)
    • Kibana should be on the same minor version as Elasticsearch.

  • Elastic Cloud Enterprise 2.10 or later

    • Requires additional wildcard domains and certificates (which normally only cover *.cname, not *.*.cname). This enables us to provide the URL for Fleet Server of https://.fleet..
    • The deployment template must contain an Integrations Server node.

    For more information about hosting Fleet Server on Elastic Cloud Enterprise, refer to Manage your Integrations Server.

The TLS certificates used to secure connections between Elastic Agent and Fleet Server are managed by Elastic Cloud. You do not need to create a private key or generate certificates.

When Elasticsearch or Fleet Server are deployed, components communicate over well-defined, pre-allocated ports. You may need to allow access to these ports. See the following table for default port assignments:

Component communication Default port

Elastic Agent → Fleet Server

443

Elastic Agent → Elasticsearch

443

Elastic Agent → Logstash

5044

Elastic Agent → Fleet

443

Fleet Server → Fleet

443

Fleet Server → Elasticsearch

443

If you do not specify the port for Elasticsearch as 443, the Elastic Agent defaults to 9200.

Setup

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To confirm that an Integrations Server is available in your deployment:

  1. In Kibana, go to Management → Fleet.
  2. On the Agents tab, look for the Elastic Cloud agent policy. This policy is managed by Elastic Cloud, and contains a Fleet Server integration and an Elastic APM integration. You cannot modify the policy. Confirm that the agent status is Healthy.

Don’t see the agent? Make sure your deployment includes an Integrations Server instance. This instance is required to use Fleet.

Hosted Integrations Server

Next steps

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Now you’re ready to add Elastic Agents to your host systems. To learn how, see Install Fleet-managed Elastic Agents.

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