playbooks-retailor/roles/elasticsearch/README.md

elasticsearch

Play configures ELK stack using docker & is available without HTTPS. Configure container variables in tasks/SERVICE.yml files, environment variables for the services & Java can also be configured here.

The following are manual steps required during setup.

elastic

After creating elasticsearch container SSH into the running host and generate a new password for user elastic using command:

docker exec -it elasticsearch /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-reset-password -u elastic

kibana

Create a password for kibana_system user:

export ELASTIC_PASSWORD=
export KIBANA_PASSWORD=
curl -s -X POST -u "elastic:${ELASTIC_PASSWORD}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://elasticsearch:9200/_security/user/kibana_system/_password -d "{\"password\":\"${KIBANA_PASSWORD}\"}" | grep -q "^{}";