Quickstart

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/v1
kind: EnterpriseSearch
metadata:
  name: enterprise-search-quickstart
spec:
  version: 8.17.0
  count: 1
  elasticsearchRef:
    name: quickstart
EOF
```
Workplace Search in versions 7.7 up to and including 7.8 required an Enterprise license on ECK. You can start with a 30-day trial license.

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        8.17.0      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.

Your browser will show a warning because the self-signed certificate configured by default is not verified by a known certificate authority and not trusted by your browser. Acknowledge the warning for the purposes of this quickstart, but for a production deployment we recommend configuring valid certificates.

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
```
Access the Enterprise Search UI in Kibana.

Starting with version 7.14.0, the Enterprise Search UI is accessible in Kibana.

Apply the following specification to deploy Kibana, configured to connect to both Elasticsearch and Enterprise Search:
```
cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: kibana.k8s.elastic.co/v1
kind: Kibana
metadata:
  name: quickstart
spec:
  version: 8.17.0
  count: 1
  elasticsearchRef:
    name: quickstart
  enterpriseSearchRef:
    name: enterprise-search-quickstart
EOF
```
Use kubectl port-forward to access Kibana from your local workstation:
```
kubectl port-forward service/quickstart-kb-http 5601
```
Open https://localhost:5601 in your browser and navigate to the Enterprise Search UI.

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