Creating a set of yaml to create a basic ELK k8s system

[charith-elastic (Charith Ellawala)]

@fallenreaper

1- Be able to directly reference Elasticsearch from logstash like in Kibana, using its app name.

ECK does not have support for Logstash; hence why you can't connect it to Elasticsearch with a single line like you would do with Kibana. You can refer to Access Elastic Stack services | Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes [1.2] | Elastic to figure out how to connect non-ECK applications to Elasticsearch (you seem to have done this already).

@fallenreaper

2- Instead of passing in a Logstash Conf file IN the Yaml, I wanted to be able to set a file instead, in order to allow me to swap the config files instead of adjusting nested text in yaml files.

Have you considered using Filebeat to ship your logs? ECK supports Beats and could make the integration much easier. See Run Beats on ECK | Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes [2.10] | Elastic.