Elastic Cloud Enterprise ships with a number of different versions of the Elastic Stack containing Elasticsearch and Kibana. Periodically, you might need to manage Elastic Stack versions for one of the following reasons:

New or updated versions of the Elastic Stack must be prepared to work with Elastic Cloud Enterprise and are provided as packs that you can download.

The following packs containing Elastic Stack versions are available:

Before you begin

The examples shown all use HTTPS over port 12443, which requires that you have a TLS certificate configured. Alternatively, you can specify the -k option to turn off certificate verification or use HTTP over port 12400.

Get Elastic Stack Informationedit

You can obtain information about existing Elastic Stack versions that are available in your installation through the Cloud UI or through the command line.

To obtain information about available Elastic Stack versions through the Cloud UI:

To obtain information about available Elastic Stack versions through the command line:

curl -X GET -u USER:PASSWORD https://COORDINATOR_HOST:12443/api/v1/stack/versions

For example (output abridged for brevity):

curl -X GET -u root:4Z52y8Gq7PrxMDy47ipJPSh4ozBMynOGa9HWxcy2D3j https://10.56.12.153:12443/api/v1/stack/versions
{
  "stacks": [
    {
      "version": "2.4.5",
      "template": {
        "template_version": "",
        "hashes": []
      },
      "elasticsearch": {
        "docker_image": "docker.elastic.co/cloud-enterprise/elasticsearch:2.4.5-0",
        "plugins": [
          "graph",
          "analysis-icu",
          "analysis-kuromoji",
          "analysis-smartcn",
          "analysis-stempel",
          "analysis-phonetic",
          "watcher",
          "mapper-attachments",
          "delete-by-query"
        ],
        "default_plugins": [
          "found-elasticsearch",
          "cloud-aws",
          "found-license-plugin",
          "shield",
          "marvel-agent"
        ...
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "version": "5.2.2",
      "template": {
        "template_version": "",
        "hashes": []
      },
      "elasticsearch": {
        "docker_image": "docker.elastic.co/cloud-enterprise/elasticsearch:5.2.2-0",
        "plugins": [
          "analysis-icu",
          "analysis-kuromoji",
          "analysis-smartcn",
          "analysis-stempel",
          "analysis-phonetic",
          "mapper-attachments",
          "ingest-attachment",
          "ingest-geoip",
          "ingest-user-agent"
        ],
        "default_plugins": [
          "repository-s3",
          "found-elasticsearch",
          "x-pack"
        ...
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

You can also query for a specific version with a URI such as https://COORDINATOR_HOST:12443/api/v1/stack/versions/5.3.2, for example.

Add Elastic Stack Packsedit

You can add new Elastic Stack packs to your installation through the Elastic Cloud Enterprise installation script or through the RESTful API.

To add a new Elastic Stack pack through the Elastic Cloud Enterprise installation script from the command line:

To add a new Elastic Stack pack through the RESTful API from the command line:

Update Elastic Stack Packsedit

Updating an Elastic Stack pack might become necessary if an Elastic Stack version has been updated with security fixes, for example. You can update an existing Elastic Stack version through the command line.

Updated versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana are used when you create new clusters, but they are not automatically applied to already running clusters. To update existing Elasticsearch clusters and Kibana after an updated Elastic Stack pack has been added, you need to change the cluster configuration.

To update Elastic Stack packs through the RESTful API from the command line: