Starting from ECK 2.4.0, a Helm chart is available for managing Elastic Stack resources using the ECK Operator. It is available from the Elastic Helm repository and can be added to your Helm repository list by running the following command:

helm repo add elastic https://helm.elastic.co
helm repo update

Installing Elasticsearch and Kibana using the eck-stack Helm Chartedit

Similar to the quickstart, the following section describes how to setup an Elasticsearch cluster with a simple Kibana instance managed by ECK, and how to customize a deployment using the eck-stack Helm chart’s values.

# Install an eck-managed Elasticsearch and Kibana using the default values, which deploys the quickstart examples.
helm install es-kb-quickstart elastic/eck-stack -n elastic-stack --create-namespace

Customizing Kibana and Elasticsearch using the eck-stack Helm Chart’s example valuesedit

There are example Helm values files for installing and managing a more advanced Elasticsearch and/or Kibana in the project repository.

To use one or more of these example configurations, use the --values Helm option, as seen in the following section.

# Install an eck-managed Elasticsearch and Kibana using the Elasticsearch node roles example with hot, warm, and cold data tiers, and the Kibana example customizing the http service.
helm install es-quickstart elastic/eck-stack -n elastic-stack --create-namespace --values https://github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/tree/main/deploy/eck-stack/examples/elasticsearch/hot-warm-cold.yaml --values https://github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/tree/main/deploy/eck-stack/examples/kibana/http-configuration.yaml

Installing individual components of the Elastic Stack using the Helm Chartsedit

You can install individual components in one of two ways using the provided Helm Charts.

Using Helm values to install only Elasticsearch

helm install es-quickstart elastic/eck-stack -n elastic-stack --create-namespace --set=eck-kibana.enabled=false

Using the eck-elasticsearch Helm Chart directly to install only Elasticsearch

helm install es-quickstart elastic/eck-elasticsearch -n elastic-stack --create-namespace