Apply the following specification to deploy Enterprise Search. ECK automatically configures the secured connection to an Elasticsearch cluster named quickstart, created in Elasticsearch quickstart.

cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: enterprisesearch.k8s.elastic.co/v1beta1
kind: EnterpriseSearch
metadata:
  name: enterprise-search-quickstart
spec:
  version: 8.13.2
  count: 1
  elasticsearchRef:
    name: quickstart
EOF

Monitor the Enterprise Search deployment.

Retrieve details about the Enterprise Search deployment:

kubectl get enterprisesearch

NAME                            HEALTH    NODES    VERSION   AGE
enterprise-search-quickstart    green     1        8.13.2      8m

List all the Pods belonging to a given deployment:

kubectl get pods --selector='enterprisesearch.k8s.elastic.co/name=enterprise-search-quickstart'

NAME                                                READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
enterprise-search-quickstart-ent-58b84db85-dl7c6    1/1     Running   0          2m50s

Access logs for that Pod:

kubectl logs -f enterprise-search-quickstart-ent-58b84db85-dl7c6

Access Enterprise Search.

A ClusterIP Service is automatically created for the deployment, and can be used to access the Enterprise Search API from within the Kubernetes cluster:

kubectl get service enterprise-search-quickstart-ent-http

Use kubectl port-forward to access Enterprise Search from your local workstation:

kubectl port-forward service/enterprise-search-quickstart-ent-http 3002

Open https://localhost:3002 in your browser.

Login as the elastic user created with the Elasticsearch cluster. Its password can be obtained with:

kubectl get secret quickstart-es-elastic-user -o=jsonpath='{.data.elastic}' | base64 --decode; echo