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Elasticsearch Features

FeaturesCommunityEnterprise
Combined Cluster (n nodes with master,data,ingest: ture; n >= 1 )✓✓
Topology Cluster (n master, m data, x ingest nodes; n,m,x >= 1 )✓✓
Hot-Warm-Cold Topology Cluster (a hot, b warm, c cold nodes; a,b,c >= 1 )✓✓
TLS: Add, Remove, Update, Rotate ( Cert Manager )✗✓
Automated Version Update✗✓
Automatic Vertical Scaling✗✓
Automated Horizontal Scaling✗✓
Automated Volume Expansion✗✓
Backup/Recovery: Instant, Scheduled ( Stash )✓✓
Dashboard ( Kibana , Opensearch-Dashboards )✓✓
Grafana Dashboards✗✓
Initialization from Snapshot ( Stash )✓✓
Authentication ( OpensSearch / X-Pack / OpenDistro / Search Guard )✓✓
Authorization ( OpensSearch / X-Pack / OpenDistro / Search Guard )✓✓
Persistent Volume✓✓
Exports Prometheus Matrices✓✓
Custom Configuration✓✓
Using Custom Docker Image✓✓
Initialization From Script✗✗
Autoscaling (vertically)✗✓

Lifecycle of Elasticsearch Object

  lifecycle

Available Elasticsearch Versions

KubeDB supports Elasticsearch provided by Elastic with xpack auth plugin. Opensearch and Opendistro are supported too. KubeDB also supports some versions of Elasticsearch with searchguard auth plugin. Compatible Kibana and Opensearch-Dashboards are supported by Most of the Elasticsearch versions with xpack auth plugin and OpenSearch. Kibana and Opensearch-Dashboards can be provisioned externally or by using KubeDB with ElasticsearchDashboard CRD.

X-PackOpenSearch
VersionElasticSearchDashboard(Kibana)
6.8.x✓✓
7.13.x✓✓
7.14.x✓✓
7.16.x✓✓
7.17.x✓✓
8.2.x✓✓
8.5.x✓✓
8.6.x✓✓
8.8.x✓✓
8.11.x✓✓
VersionOpenSearchDashboard
(OpenSearch-Dashboards)
1.1.x✓✓
1.2.x✓✓
1.3.x✓✓
2.0.x✓✓
2.5.x✓✓
2.8.x✓✓
2.11.x✓✓

The listed ElasticsearchVersions are tested and provided as a part of the installation process (ie. catalog chart), but you are open to create your own ElasticsearchVersion object with your custom Elasticsearch image.

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