# Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/c/orchestration/eck/79.md?page=17

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## [Single node consuming more disk space](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-node-consuming-more-disk-space/285250)

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**Author:** [@purushothamkdr143](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/purushothamkdr143)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 29, 2021, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-node-consuming-more-disk-space/285250 "2021-09-29T11:24:59Z")

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Hi All, I have setup Elasticsearch cluster using eck operator. details as follows. master nodes: 3 data nodes: 9 only single data node is consuming more disk space although it has less number of shards than the other…

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## [Deploying ECK on AWS EKS with i3 and d2 instances and local volumes](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deploying-eck-on-aws-eks-with-i3-and-d2-instances-and-local-volumes/235223)

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**Author:** [@Chris\_Austin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chris_Austin)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 28, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deploying-eck-on-aws-eks-with-i3-and-d2-instances-and-local-volumes/235223 "2021-09-28T14:51:27Z")

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I'm attempting to deploy Elasticsearch w/ ECK on EKS with i3 hot nodes and d2 warm nodes, with the EC2 instances created through Terraform as part of an autoscaling group so I can have failover across availability zones.…

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## [Deploying ECK with Network-attached PersistentVolumes (e.g. AWSElasticBlockStore)](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deploying-eck-with-network-attached-persistentvolumes-e-g-awselasticblockstore/285353)

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**Author:** [@brsolomon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brsolomon)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 28, 2021, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deploying-eck-with-network-attached-persistentvolumes-e-g-awselasticblockstore/285353 "2021-09-28T12:53:39Z")

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The ECK docs would greatly benefit from an MCVE on how to deploy ECK with Network-attached PersistentVolumes and a provisioner such as kubernetes.io/aws-ebs. The Best Practices in AWS section suggests using one of Instan…

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## [ECK Update Secret for Kibana.yml fails](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-update-secret-for-kibana-yml-fails/285082)

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**Author:** [@bwheatley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bwheatley)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 27, 2021, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-update-secret-for-kibana-yml-fails/285082 "2021-09-27T14:19:35Z")

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Good Morning, This is hopefully me being stupid and missing something easy. If someone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. I'm trying to update the secret quickstart-kb-config so i can update my …

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## [Create index template with K8S CRD](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-index-template-with-k8s-crd/285143)

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**Author:** [@ebuildy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ebuildy)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 26, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-index-template-with-k8s-crd/285143 "2021-09-26T18:01:50Z")

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Is there a CRD to create an index template? I know rabbitMQ operator allow to declare queue like this: apiVersion: rabbitmq.com/v1beta1 kind: Queue metadata: name: test namespace: rabbitmq-system spec: name: test…

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## [\[Fleet Agent\] Cannot get kubernetes autodiscovery to work](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fleet-agent-cannot-get-kubernetes-autodiscovery-to-work/284388)

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**Author:** [@ZikPhil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ZikPhil)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 6:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fleet-agent-cannot-get-kubernetes-autodiscovery-to-work/284388 "2021-09-24T06:39:09Z")

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Hello, So previously I was running metricbeat, filebeat & heartbeat separately using a different manifest for each. I want to migrate to a single agent instance that would do it all. Here is my config: apiVersion: agen…

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## [ECK - Fleet Server agent startup failure](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-fleet-server-agent-startup-failure/280573)

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**Author:** [@sc75651](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sc75651)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-fleet-server-agent-startup-failure/280573 "2021-09-23T18:53:16Z")

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Followed these steps - but I am getting below error during startup Note\* - I am using custom TLS certificates generated using cert-manager - k logs -f fleet-server-agent-6f976f656c-l5vtd cp: cannot stat '/mnt/elastic-i…

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## [ECK - Alternative secrets storage using CSI Driver for KeyVault in Azure](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-alternative-secrets-storage-using-csi-driver-for-keyvault-in-azure/284294)

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**Author:** [@x00m](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/x00m)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2021, 6:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-alternative-secrets-storage-using-csi-driver-for-keyvault-in-azure/284294 "2021-09-23T06:18:01Z")

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I have integrated my AKS cluster with Azure Keyvault CSI Driver for secrets storage. Link: GitHub - Azure/secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-azure: Azure Key Vault provider for Secret Store CSI driver allows you to get …

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## [ECK operator on OpenShift does not take the created self-signed certificate after updating Elasticsearch instance yaml file](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-operator-on-openshift-does-not-take-the-created-self-signed-certificate-after-updating-elasticsearch-instance-yaml-file/284619)

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**Author:** [@Inad.mammdov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Inad.mammdov)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2021, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-operator-on-openshift-does-not-take-the-created-self-signed-certificate-after-updating-elasticsearch-instance-yaml-file/284619 "2021-09-22T06:33:17Z")

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I have created a self-signed cert on our side, created the secret form the certs and added under spec: http: tls: certificate, but operator does not update the pod, so that elastic pod runs its own cert. Could you please…

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## [Kibana dashboards and index patterns lost after delete kibana pod](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboards-and-index-patterns-lost-after-delete-kibana-pod/284422)

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**Author:** [@humartinez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/humartinez)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 18, 2021, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboards-and-index-patterns-lost-after-delete-kibana-pod/284422 "2021-09-18T13:27:33Z")

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Hi, I just delete the kibana pod that I build with eck and I lost all the dashboards and index patterns that I've created. I thought that that info was loaded in the .kibana index. Its theres a way that I can recover th…

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## [How to deploy beats in the same pod with ElasticSearch Kubernetes Orchestration API](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-deploy-beats-in-the-same-pod-with-elasticsearch-kubernetes-orchestration-api/284293)

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**Author:** [@Adriann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adriann)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-deploy-beats-in-the-same-pod-with-elasticsearch-kubernetes-orchestration-api/284293 "2021-09-17T09:20:38Z")

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Hello, I want to be able to set up for example all the beats in the same pod. Is it possible to achieve using Elasticserach Orchestration Kubernetes API?

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## [Injecting a namespace into helm template](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/injecting-a-namespace-into-helm-template/284230)

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**Author:** [@AndreyL](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AndreyL)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 15, 2021, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/injecting-a-namespace-into-helm-template/284230 "2021-09-15T09:42:19Z")

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Our Kubernetes environment is managed by Nirmata, which uses gitops for application deployments. It pulls a yaml file and creates the objects. I use the official Elasticsearch helm chart (https://github.com/elastic/helm…

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## [Anonymous user config](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/anonymous-user-config/284037)

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**Author:** [@imarkvisser](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/imarkvisser)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 13, 2021, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/anonymous-user-config/284037 "2021-09-13T11:22:22Z")

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Hi there, We are currently running ECK with an anonymous user for users to log in with, which looks like; kibana: enabled: true name: foo version: 7.11.2 http: image: count: 1 config: xpack.security.a…

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## [Replacing cluster level objects (e.g. ClusterRole)](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replacing-cluster-level-objects-e-g-clusterrole/283986)

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**Author:** [@AndreyL](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AndreyL)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 13, 2021, 7:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replacing-cluster-level-objects-e-g-clusterrole/283986 "2021-09-13T07:01:27Z")

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I want to deploy ECK to our internal Kubernetes cluster. The issue I ran into is that ECK uses cluster level objects like ClusterRole, and I am not able to deploy those - we use Nirmata for cluster management, and each a…

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## [How can i stop a cluster on ECK](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-stop-a-cluster-on-eck/282974)

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**Author:** [@w\_Aaron](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/w_Aaron)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 8, 2021, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-stop-a-cluster-on-eck/282974 "2021-09-08T10:12:02Z")

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I changed the cluster yaml file nodeSet.config.count value to 0 In my cluster,When i kubectl describe es xxxx\_es\_id ,the logs info is:"es26f861-fa5d-410a-acb1-b9281f6814ae" is invalid: spec.nodeSets: Required value: Elas…

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## [ECK clusters and client sniffing](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-clusters-and-client-sniffing/244972)

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**Author:** [@Presence](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Presence)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2021, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-clusters-and-client-sniffing/244972 "2021-09-07T20:00:31Z")

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It seems difficult to set up an ECK ElasticSearch cluster where client sniffing works. Does anybody have any suggestions on best approaches here? Our clusters are currently on AWS EKS in 3 availability zones behind a sin…

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## [ECK Install repository-s3 plugin](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-install-repository-s3-plugin/283514)

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**Author:** [@Fleming7612](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Fleming7612)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2021, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-install-repository-s3-plugin/283514 "2021-09-07T10:30:38Z")

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Hi there, I'd downloaded repository-s3-7.12.jar but i don't know how to install it. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Best wishes

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## [ECK Fleet startup failure on ECK on Cloud](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-fleet-startup-failure-on-eck-on-cloud/281700)

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**Author:** [@vaibhavsw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vaibhavsw)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2021, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-fleet-startup-failure-on-eck-on-cloud/281700 "2021-09-02T10:27:20Z")

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I followed the latest documentation to start a fleet server on Kubernetes, though both Elastic Agent and Fleet Server are throwing below error. cp: cannot stat '/mnt/elastic-internal/elasticsearch-association/vulcan/ela…

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## [Snapshot in on premises K8S](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-in-on-premises-k8s/282861)

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**Author:** [@Fleming7612](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Fleming7612)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 31, 2021, 5:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-in-on-premises-k8s/282861 "2021-08-31T05:02:02Z")

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Hi there, We had setup a elasticsearch cluster by ECK in on-premises k8s . Cause we cannot leverage cloud service outside our company for elasticsearch snapshot, any way we can make snapshot for index backup. Any sugge…

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## [Ingress for ECK Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingress-for-eck-kibana/281734)

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**Author:** [@telapo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/telapo)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 18, 2021, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingress-for-eck-kibana/281734 "2021-08-18T14:47:35Z")

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Hi, I have followed the documentation to deploy ECK on Kubernetes (local testing on docker for mac), and everything is working fine, elastic is up and running and Kibana is connected to it. I can port forward it, and I a…

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## [Single master node cluster dies when master node dies](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-master-node-cluster-dies-when-master-node-dies/281559)

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**Author:** [@iojas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iojas)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 17, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-master-node-cluster-dies-when-master-node-dies/281559 "2021-08-17T23:05:41Z")

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I am using ECK to deploy an ES cluster. my setup has 1 master node and 3 data nodes. If for some reason master nodes dies it comes back up (thanks to statefulsets in kubernetes), but associates itself with a different cl…

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## [Filebeat not connecting to elasticsearch cluster running with ECK](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-connecting-to-elasticsearch-cluster-running-with-eck/278183)

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**Author:** [@aksh\_18](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aksh_18)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 17, 2021, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-connecting-to-elasticsearch-cluster-running-with-eck/278183 "2021-08-17T08:22:13Z")

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Hi All, I have deployed ES cluster and kibana with the help of ECK. I am using filebeat-kubernetes.yaml to deploy filebeat. I deployed metricbeat with metricbeat-kubernetes.yaml and its running fine. But even after appl…

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## [How to set log's remain time in eck?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-logs-remain-time-in-eck/281623)

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**Author:** [@111501](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/111501)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [August 17, 2021, 3:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-logs-remain-time-in-eck/281623 "2021-08-17T03:36:19Z")

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I can't find this parameter in eck official document.

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## [Heap Size setting in k8s](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heap-size-setting-in-k8s/281522)

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**Author:** [@purushothamkdr143](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/purushothamkdr143)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 16, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heap-size-setting-in-k8s/281522 "2021-08-16T12:32:42Z")

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Hi All, I am trying to setup up elasticsearch(version 6.8.14) on k8s using eck operator. As per the documentation HEAP SIZE should be 50% of RAM. so If set ( requests, limits as 16GB) then ES\_JAVA\_OPTS should be 8 i.…

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## [Elastic workloads deployed in GCP stopped working with connection timeout errors](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-workloads-deployed-in-gcp-stopped-working-with-connection-timeout-errors/280698)

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**Author:** [@Amirtha\_Saminathan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amirtha_Saminathan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-workloads-deployed-in-gcp-stopped-working-with-connection-timeout-errors/280698 "2021-08-12T12:50:02Z")

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The elastic search master, data and client have stopped communicating with each other and we see NodeDisconnectedException and connection timeout errors on 9300 port

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## [Custom role via Secret not created](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-role-via-secret-not-created/280581)

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**Author:** [@pkaramol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pkaramol)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-role-via-secret-not-created/280581 "2021-08-12T12:40:15Z")

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I am trying to create custom roles declaratively in ECK (leveraging the file-based role management), therefore I rely on the usage of Secrets as per the instructions found here. I am defining the following Secret resour…

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## [How to use Azure Storage plugin in ECK for Snapshot](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-azure-storage-plugin-in-eck-for-snapshot/237513)

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**Author:** [@robinhood\_lko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robinhood_lko)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-azure-storage-plugin-in-eck-for-snapshot/237513 "2021-08-11T17:35:19Z")

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Hi All, I have to configure snapshot in ECK Deployment. Elasticsearch documentation has given example for Google cloud. Please can anyone list the steps for that. I tried this - Created a file azure.client.default.cre…

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## [ECK Fail to update status field of elasticsearch cluster on EKS 1.19](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-fail-to-update-status-field-of-elasticsearch-cluster-on-eks-1-19/279246)

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**Author:** [@Francesco\_Ciocchetti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Francesco_Ciocchetti)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 9, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-fail-to-update-status-field-of-elasticsearch-cluster-on-eks-1-19/279246 "2021-08-09T15:51:40Z")

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Hi, i am trying to get a cluster running on EKS 1.19 to sucessfully create an elasticsearchcluster using the ECK operator 1.6 the cluster gets created just fine when i create the elasticsearch resource and i can see the…

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## [Remove labels (or ownership) from secret](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-labels-or-ownership-from-secret/280293)

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**Author:** [@pkaramol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pkaramol)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [August 3, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-labels-or-ownership-from-secret/280293 "2021-08-03T14:58:34Z")

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I want to edit / remove those labels from the elastic user secret eck.k8s.elastic.co/credentials: "true" eck.k8s.elastic.co/owner-kind: Elasticsearch eck.k8s.elastic.co/owner-name: myClusterName eck.k8s.…

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## [ES\_JAVA\_OPTS is ignore or not set](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-java-opts-is-ignore-or-not-set/280190)

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**Author:** [@purushothamkdr143](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/purushothamkdr143)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 3, 2021, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-java-opts-is-ignore-or-not-set/280190 "2021-08-03T08:54:09Z")

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Hi Team, I had setup elasticsearch cluster(version 6.8.14) using eck operator. I wanted to use more heapsize so I had set ES\_JAVA\_OPTS as "-Xms6g -Xmx6g". but it is taking the default heapsize which is 1g. Kindly help m…

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