Elasticsearch-setup-passwords

[ikakavas (Ioannis Kakavas)]

@rmadoori

cause this looks like a manual process

@TimV has written up how you can automate setting the passwords

@rmadoori

are plain text.

Not necessarily, you can check out the Logstash's secrets keystore for example.

@rmadoori

Is there any option to generate keys and we can use the keys for kibana and logstash to use to connect to elasticsearch

Yes, see PKI Client authentication for Elasticsearch