Ready for Elastic Stack 7.0, new features
include new cross-cluster search UI and deployment templates,
role-based access control, SAML and LDAP server authentication, ILM
integration, and keystore support
Elastic N.V. (NYSE: ESTC), the company behind Elasticsearch and
the Elastic Stack, announces the release of version 2.2 of Elastic
Cloud Enterprise (ECE). This release focuses on bringing many of
the recent Elastic Stack features to ECE in a more native way and
providing better security and user management capabilities in
multitenant environments. Elastic Cloud Enterprise version 2.2 is
immediately available for download at elastic.co.
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Cross-Cluster Search UI
ECE makes it easy to centrally provision and manage many
clusters, which simplifies the best practice of having a cluster
per tenant or use case rather than large multitenant clusters.
While this multi-cluster approach is clearly better for each user —
they have their own environment that can be easily upgraded on
their schedule, no noisy neighbor effects, etc. — there are often
benefits to being able to look across multiple users and
clusters.
To address this need for searching across clusters, ECE has
included a dedicated cross-cluster search API since version 2.1.
Version 2.2 takes this cross-cluster search (CCS) capability
further by providing a slick UI to manage the CCS workflow as a
native, first-class deployment template. The CCS UI lets users
easily configure a CCS deployment that can search across several or
even all of the deployments managed by ECE in a secure and
efficient way. Once the CCS deployment is defined, ECE takes care
of all the underlying plumbing to make sure your deployments are
configured securely and efficiently for CCS.
Role-Based Access Control (Beta)
ECE has always made security a priority, from end-to-end
encrypted communications to a wide array of supported
authentication types for managed clusters.
ECE 2.2 takes this security-first approach to the next level,
providing the ability to create users, audit their interactions
with the platform, and assign them with predefined roles for more
fine-grained control over access to the ECE environment.
Role-based access control is introduced as a beta feature in ECE
2.2 and supports one or more of the following pre-configured
roles:
- Platform admin: the almighty
superuser; identical permission to the admin user in previous ECE
versions.
- Platform viewer: view-only
permissions for the entire platform and hosted deployments;
identical permissions to the read-only user in previous ECE
versions.
- Deployments manager: allows
users to create and manage deployments on the platform, but does
not allow them to access any platform level operations and
resources such as deployment templates, instance configurations,
allocators, etc.
- Deployments viewer: allows users
to view only deployments, without the ability to operate on them in
any way.
In addition, users are also able to configure ECE to
authenticate users against a SAML identity provider or an LDAP
server, and map users in these user registries to the above
roles.
The addition of role-based access control to ECE is another step
in making ECE more secure. Future versions will include support for
custom roles and the ability to define teams and segregate
resources across these teams.
Integration with Index Lifecycle Management
In Elastic Stack version 6.7, Elastic introduced a much-awaited
feature: index lifecycle management (ILM). With ILM, users can
automate the management of indices over their lifetime, and
automatically apply operations such as index relocation to a
different node, force merging and shrinking an index, or deleting
it at different phases in its lifecycle.
Previous versions of ECE baked a more rudimentary index curation
functionality into the relevant deployment templates such as
hot-warm. In version 2.2, new clusters now leverage the more
sophisticated and feature-rich index lifecycle management provided
by the Elastic Stack, and implement things like index shrinking,
force merging, and even deletion.
Elasticsearch Keystore Support
Keystore is an Elasticsearch tool that allows users to securely
store sensitive settings such as credentials for blob store
repositories accessed from within Elasticsearch. These include AWS
S3, Azure Blob Storage, and Google Cloud Storage.
With ECE 2.2, users now have API and UI access to create and
store secure settings to an Elasticsearch keystore, and ECE makes
sure that these settings are always available to cluster nodes,
regardless of their location, which allows ECE users to configure
various Elasticsearch plugins more securely.
All New Ansible Playbooks
One of the more common requests from ECE users was to be able to
install and manage ECE installation with popular configuration
management and infrastructure-as-code tools. ECE version 2.2
includes a number of Ansible playbooks to install and manage ECE
more easily.
Ready for 7.0
ECE 2.2 is ready for the Elastic Stack version 7.0, which was
also released today. Greenfield ECE 2.2 installations will include
version 7.0 of the stack automatically, and ECE users who upgraded
from earlier versions can simply add the 7.0 stack pack to their
environment and upgrade their clusters to 7.0.
Another important improvement is that ECE 2.2 will support a
rolling upgrading from 6.7 to 7.0, without incurring any downtime —
a major version upgrade with zero downtime.
Additional Improvements
In addition to all the above, ECE 2.2 also includes several
enhancements that improve scalability and usability:
- Performance and stability improvements
due to more efficient use of ZooKeeper, which is the heart of the
ECE distributed state and coordination layer. These improvements
are achieved by significantly reducing the number of connections to
ZooKeeper. Clusters from version 6.7 onwards will no longer connect
directly to ZooKeeper for any purpose, effectively making the
platform much more scalable.
- System clusters have been upgraded to
version 6.6, which allows users to use the new infrastructure
monitoring and logging apps in Kibana to monitor and view logs and
metrics of ECE hosts and containers.
Learn More
- Read the ECE 2.2 release blog
- ECE Documentation
- Download ECE
- Read about Elastic’s customers
About Elastic
Elastic is a search company. As the creators of the Elastic
Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), Elastic builds
self-managed and SaaS offerings that make data usable in real time
and at scale for use cases like application search, site search,
enterprise search, logging, APM, metrics, security, business
analytics, and many more.
Elastic and associated marks are trademarks or registered
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and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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