Elasticsearch 8.17.0 failing to start in minikube with older manifests (used to work with 7.12.1)

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
1

Elasticsearch Version

8.17.0

Installed Plugins

kibana, istio

Java Version

bundled

OS Version

Darwin GGN-MAC-10089 24.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.2.0: Fri Dec 6 18:41:43 PST 2024; root:xnu-11215.61.5~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

Problem Description

I am using my existing manifests file (mentioned below) to deploy elasticsearch (along with kibana) new version 8.17.0 into my local minikube instance (which has istio v1.24.2 deployed in it too). These manifests used to work perfectly with versions 7.12.1 of both elasticsearch and kibana.

When the new docker image is used,kibana is up and running just fine (with response 200 for the command curl https://kibana.minikube.me -kLs -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n").

But when I run the commad curl https://elasticsearch.minikube.me -sk, elasticsearch just responds with the following error:

upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. retried and the latest reset reason: remote connection failure, transport failure reason: delayed connect error: Connection refused

(Earlier, with v 7.12.1, a proper JSON response containing the tagline 'You know, for sure' was being sent)

Here are the manifests that I am using (nothing else has changed apart from the image for elasticsearch):

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
    name: elasticsearch

spec:
    selector:
        matchLabels:
            component: elasticsearch
    template:
        metadata:
            labels:
                component: elasticsearch
        spec:
            containers:
                - name: elasticsearch
                  image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:8.17.0 # earlier this was 7.12.1
                  env:
                      - name: discovery.type
                        value: single-node
                  ports:
                      - containerPort: 9200
                        name: http
                        protocol: TCP
                  resources:
                      limits:
                          cpu: 500m
                          memory: 1Gi
                      requests:
                          cpu: 500m
                          memory: 1Gi

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
    name: elasticsearch
    labels:
        service: elasticsearch

spec:
    type: ClusterIP
    selector:
        component: elasticsearch
    ports:
        - port: 9200
          targetPort: 9200

---
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: Gateway
metadata:
    name: elasticsearch-gateway
    namespace: logging

spec:
    selector:
        istio: ingressgateway
    servers:
        - hosts:
              - "elasticsearch.minikube.me"
          port:
              number: 443
              name: https-elasticsearch
              protocol: HTTPS
          tls:
              mode: SIMPLE
              credentialName: my-certificate

---
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
    name: elasticsearch-vs
    namespace: logging

spec:
    hosts:
        - "elasticsearch.minikube.me"
    gateways:
        - elasticsearch-gateway
    http:
        - route:
              - destination:
                    host: elasticsearch
                    port:
                        number: 9200

---
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: DestinationRule
metadata:
    name: elasticsearch
    namespace: logging

spec:
    host: elasticsearch
    trafficPolicy:
        tls:
            mode: DISABLE

Steps to Reproduce

Mentioned above in the problem description

Logs (if relevant)

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