Access RBAC features on Kibana without having to enable SSL on ElasticSearch

[Albatross]

I have a multi-node ES Cluster with mandatory in-house mTLS capabilities between different nodes hence I do not want to enable SSL on Elastic Search. However, I would like to take advantage of the RBAC features available on Kibana. What could be a workaround to get this working?

[yago82]

@Albatross

I have a multi-node ES Cluster with mandatory in-house mTLS capabilities between different nodes hence I do not want to enable SSL on Elastic Search. However, I would like to take advantage of the RBAC features available on Kibana. What could be a workaround to get this working?

Hi,

If you want to use the Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) features of Kibana, you will need to enable X-Pack Security on your Elasticsearch cluster. X-Pack Security provides a number of security features, including RBAC, but it also requires that you enable SSL/TLS for internode communication.

Regards