TLS Certificates

This section only covers TLS certificates for the HTTP layer. Those for the transport layer used for Elasticsearch internal communication between Elasticsearch nodes in a cluster are managed by ECK and are not configurable.

Default self-signed certificate

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By default, the operator manages a self-signed certificate with a custom CA for each resource. The CA, the certificate and the private key are each stored in a separate Secret.

> kubectl get secret | grep es-http
hulk-es-http-ca-internal         Opaque                                2      28m
hulk-es-http-certs-internal      Opaque                                2      28m
hulk-es-http-certs-public        Opaque                                1      28m

The public certificate is stored in a secret named <name>-[es|kb|apm|ent]-http-certs-public.

> kubectl get secret hulk-es-http-certs-public -o go-template='{{index .data "tls.crt" | base64decode }}'
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIDQDCCAiigAwIBAgIQHC4O/RWX15a3/P3upsm3djANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQsFADA6
...
QLYL4zLEby3vRxq65+xofVBJAaM=
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

Reserve static IP and custom domain

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To use a custom domain name with the self-signed certificate, you can reserve a static IP and/or use an Ingress instead of a LoadBalancer Service. Whatever you use, your DNS must be added to the certificate SAN in the spec.http.tls.selfSignedCertificate.subjectAltNames section of your Elastic resource manifest.

spec:
  http:
    service:
      spec:
        type: LoadBalancer
    tls:
      selfSignedCertificate:
        subjectAltNames:
        - ip: 160.46.176.15
        - dns: hulk.example.com

Setup your own certificate

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You can bring your own certificate to configure TLS to ensure that communication between HTTP clients and the cluster is encrypted.

Create a Kubernetes secret with:

ca.crt: CA certificate (optional if tls.crt was issued by a well-known CA).
tls.crt: the certificate.
tls.key: the private key to the first certificate in the certificate chain.

kubectl create secret generic my-cert --from-file=ca.crt=tls.crt --from-file=tls.crt=tls.crt --from-file=tls.key=tls.key

Then you just have to reference the secret name in the http.tls.certificate section of the resource manifest.

spec:
  http:
    tls:
      certificate:
        secretName: my-cert

Disable TLS

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You can explicitly disable TLS for Kibana, APM Server, Enterprise Search and the HTTP layer of Elasticsearch.

spec:
  http:
    tls:
      selfSignedCertificate:
        disabled: true

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