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Fresh installation of ECE using Podman hostsedit

This section provides guidelines and recommendations to install ECE using a Podman-based environment. The recommended approach consists of two (2) high-level steps.

Step 1: Install ECE.

Step 2: Add additional Podman hosts

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  1. Install ECE

    Use the ECE installer script together with the --podman flag.

    Refer to the official Install ECE online documentation to adapt the command line parameters to your environment.

    JVM heap sizes describes recommended JVM options.

    Important while running ./elastic-cloud-enterprise.sh

    • Execute the installer script as user elastic.
    • Ensure to use an installer script that supports podman.
    • Make sure you use --podman.
    • Use --cloud-enterprise-version VERSION_NAME to specify the correct version.

  2. Add additional Podman hosts

    Refer to the official Install Elastic Cloud Enterprise on an additional host and Install ECE online documentation to adapt the command line parameters to your environment including fetching the role token.

    JVM heap sizes describes recommended JVM options.

    Important while running ./elastic-cloud-enterprise.sh

    • Execute the installer script as user elastic.
    • Ensure to use an installer script that supports podman.
    • Make sure you use --podman.

    • To fetch a role token following the Generate Roles Tokens guidelines, you need to send a JSON token to the admin console. Double check the correct format of the roles. Roles are a list of individual strings in quotes, NOT a single string.

      Example

      { "persistent": true, "roles": [ "allocator","coordinator","director","proxy" ] }
    • The ECE version of the additional host must be the same as the version used in step 2. Use --cloud-enterprise-version VERSION_NAME to specify the correct version.

    • Make sure to apply the roles to the additional host. The value for the --roles flag is a single string.

      Example

      --roles "allocator,coordinator,director,proxy"

    To add a new allocator, use --roles "allocator". To add a new coordinator, director, proxy, and allocator, use --roles "allocator,coordinator,director,proxy"

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