Required RBAC permissionsedit

Installing and running ECK, as well as using ECK-managed resources requires the following Kubernetes permissions:

Installing CRDsedit

This permission is required to install CRDs. CRDs (CustomResourceDefinitions) are the only non-namespaced resources required to be installed.

Name API group Optional? Usage

CustomResourceDefinition

apiextensions.k8s.io

no

Extend Kubernetes APIs with Elastic Stack application resources.

Installing the ECK operatoredit

These permissions are required to install the ECK operator in a Kubernetes cluster.

Name API group Optional? Usage

StatefulSet or Deployment

apps

no

The ECK operator can be either deployed as a StatefulSet or as a Deployment.

ServiceAccount

core

no

Service account that the operator Pods run as.

Role or ClusterRole

rbac.authorization.k8s.io

no

Role bound to the operators Service account. Depending on the installation type (global/restricted) either a global (ClusterRole) or a namespaced (Role) resource is needed.

RoleBinding or ClusterRoleBinding

rbac.authorization.k8s.io

no

Binding between the operators role and the operators service account. Depending on the installation type (global/restricted), either global (ClusterRoleBinding) or namespaced (RoleBinding) resource is needed.

ConfigMap

core

yes

Configuration parameters of the Operator. They can be specified directly in the StatefulSet (or Deployment) resource instead.

Namespace

core

yes

Namespace where the operator will run. It can be a pre-existing namespace as well.

ValidatingWebhookConfiguration

admissionregistration.k8s.io

yes

Validating webhook installation. It provides fast feedback for the user directly as a APIServer response. A subset of these validations is also run by the operator itself, but the results are only available through operator logs and Kubernetes events. Check docs for more.

Secret

core

yes

Secret containing the validating webhook’s endpoint CA certificate.

Service

core

yes

Service for validating webhook endpoint.

And all permissions that Running ECK operator section specifies.

Running ECK operatoredit

These permissions are needed by the Service Account that ECK operator runs as.

Name API group Optional? Usage

Pod

no

Assuring expected Pods presence during Elasticsearch reconciliation, safely deleting Pods during configuration changes and validating podTemplate by dry-run creation of Pods.

Endpoint

no

Checking availability of service endpoints.

Event

no

Emitting events concerning reconciliation progress and issues.

PersistentVolumeClaim

no

Expanding existing volumes. Check docs to learn more.

Secret

no

Reading/writing configuration, passwords, certificates, and so on.

Service

no

Creating Services fronting Elastic Stack applications.

ConfigMap

no

Reading/writing configuration.

StatefulSet

apps

no

Deploying Elasticsearch

Deployment

apps

no

Deploying Kibana, APM Server, EnterpriseSearch, Maps, Beats or Elastic Agent.

DaemonSet

apps

no

Deploying Beats or Elastic Agent.

PodDisruptionBudget

policy

no

Ensuring update safety for Elasticsearch. Check docs to learn more.

StorageClass

storage.k8s.io

yes

Validating storage expansion support. Check docs to learn more.

coreauthorization.k8s.io

SubjectAccessReview

yes

Controlling access between referenced resources. Check docs to learn more.

And all permissions that the Using ECK-managed resources chapter specifies.

Using ECK-managed resourcesedit

These permissions are needed to manage each Elastic Stack application. For example, to create, update and delete Elasticsearch clusters the permissions for the respective verbs must be held by the user that performs the operation.

Name API group Optional?

Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch/status
Elasticsearch/finalizers

elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co

no

Kibana
Kibana/status
Kibana/finalizers

kibana.k8s.elastic.co

no

APMServer
APMServer/status
APMServer/finalizers

apm.k8s.elastic.co

no

EnterpriseSearch
EnterpriseSearch/status
EnterpriseSearch/finalizers

enterprisesearch.k8s.elastic.co

no

Beat
Beat/status
Beat/finalizers

beat.k8s.elastic.co

no

Agent
Agent/status
Agent/finalizers

agent.k8s.elastic.co

no

ElasticMapsServer
ElasticMapsServer/status
ElasticMapsServer/finalizers

maps.k8s.elastic.co

no

Logstash
Logstash/status
Logstash/finalizers

logstashes.k8s.elastic.co

no