# Elasticsearch helm chart - is it safe to use it?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-helm-chart-is-it-safe-to-use-it/214060>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 7, 2020, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-helm-chart-is-it-safe-to-use-it/214060 "2020-01-07T13:18:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![mgomse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@mgomse](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mgomse)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-helm-chart-is-it-safe-to-use-it/214060/1 "2020-01-07T13:18:57Z")

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Good morning,

This is my second post here so I hope that I'll do everything correctly 🙂  
I'm using [https://github.com/elastic/helm-charts/tree/master/elasticsearch](https://github.com/elastic/helm-charts/tree/master/elasticsearch) in my k8s cluster but one of my colleague told me:

> Please revise the image used for elasticsearch, since it will require manual action after the temporary license expires. It is recommended to use OSS image for deployments where we don't utilize some enterprise grade utilities.

By default helm chart use `docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch` image (so no OSS). I cannot use OSS because we would like to have SSL connection (see [SSL in Elasticsearch - is it free?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ssl-in-elasticsearch-is-it-free/209438)) to ES (client requirement). But as far as I know we don't use any special features from ES.

According to this I've a question - with assumption that we just use basic function (create index, search inside etc.) + SSL connection - is it safe to use this helm chart? or maybe after 30 days it will broke?

Thank you in advance for your answer,  
Kind Regards

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**Author:** ![William\_Brafford](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/william_brafford/32/51559_2.png) [@William\_Brafford](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/William_Brafford)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-helm-chart-is-it-safe-to-use-it/214060/2 "2020-01-07T16:17:19Z")

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Mariusz,

Good question! The Elasticsearch basic license **doesn't expire** , and as of versions 6.8 and 7.1, it [includes security features such as SSL encryption for free](https://www.elastic.co/blog/security-for-elasticsearch-is-now-free). There's a somewhat more detailed breakdown of the different license features on the [pricing page](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions) but the previous link probably has more details about security.

In other words, if you use the stack as you've described, there's no time-based feature cutoff.

-William

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-helm-chart-is-it-safe-to-use-it/214060/3 "2020-02-04T16:28:12Z")

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