Elastic Sample Deployments

Collection of Terraform configurations that prototype Elastic deployments across managed Kubernetes services, Minikube, and Elastic Cloud projects.

Prerequisites

Tooling

• Machine: arm64 macOS host
• Terraform v1.5.7 (or newer)
• terraform-docs v0.20.0 for regenerating module documentation
• minikube v1.34.0 with the QEMU driver

Elastic stack components

• ECK Operator 2.14.0
• Istio gateway 1.24.0 for the Istio-focused samples

Repository Structure

Elastic Cloud

• ec-cloud/es-observe – Bootstraps an Elastic Cloud observability project ready for ingest pipelines and dashboards.
• ec-cloud/es-rally – Provisions an Elastic Cloud deployment tailored for Elastic Rally benchmarking scenarios.
• ec-cloud/serverless – Creates optional observability, search, and security serverless projects via the Elastic Cloud API.

Azure AKS

• eck-aks-istio – ECK on AKS fronted by Istio ingress gateway with Azure Storage snapshot integration.
• eck-aks-istio-tiered – Tiered AKS deployment combining Istio, multiple Elasticsearch tiers, and snapshot exports.

Google Kubernetes Engine

• eck-gke-stack-monitoring/infra – GKE infrastructure for the stack monitoring reference architecture.
• eck-gke-stack-monitoring/deployments – ECK resources and Beats/Fleet assets layered on the stack-monitoring cluster.
• eck-gke-uam/infra – Shared VPC and Autopilot-ready cluster assets for the user access monitoring scenario.
• eck-gke-uam/deployments – ECK components, Fleet integrations, and workloads that enable user access monitoring.
• gke-autopilot – Placeholder for an upcoming GKE Autopilot example (currently empty).

Amazon EKS

• eks-cluster – Provisions the base EKS cluster and dependencies used by several Elastic-on-EKS experiments.

k3d Stack Monitoring standalone Example

• es-k8s-mon – Stack monitoring example on k3d for non-ECK deployments

Minikube core scenarios

• eck-minikube-istio – Local Istio + ECK stack with MetalLB-backed ingress paths.
• eck-minikube-ccs – Cross-cluster search topology spanning multiple Elasticsearch namespaces.
• eck-minikube-tiered – Tiered hot/warm Elasticsearch deployment with dedicated master and data node sets.

Minikube advanced clusters

• eck-minikube-nodes – Baseline multi-node Minikube cluster with operator bootstrap and sample stacks.
• eck-minikube-nodes-snapshot – Snapshot-enabled cluster using 9.x snapshot artifacts and additional ML nodes.
• eck-minikube-stack-monitoring – Stack monitoring scenario that wires Beats and Fleet Server into ECK.

Minikube observability add-ons

• eck-minikube-otel – OpenTelemetry collector pipelines wired into Elasticsearch and Elastic APM.
• eck-minikube-uam – User access monitoring environment with scripted asset provisioning and audit trails.