ECK supports Elasticsearch from version 6.8+ and 7.1+ as described in the Supported versions documentation of ECK.
Elasticsearch 6.8.0 includes security with TLS in the basic license. We consider it's a must-have in Kubernetes world where multiple applications potentially share the same network. That's why it is the lowest supported version.
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