I am trying to enable security and SSL for my Elastic Stack so that I can't take advantage of the additional functionality and protection that this affords us (e.g. Endpoint Security, Fleet, Integration, etc.)
Earlier in the year when I tried to do this I was running into all kinds of problems getting it set up and traced my issue to the fact that I am running both Kibana & Elasticsearch on the same machine so the communication path never leaves the server. Unfortunately I got pulled off onto something else before I could get it figured out.
Fast forward to present day and I am working on this again and it has added criticality now. Still haven't been able to get this figured out so figured it was time to reach out to the community for an assist.
My stack is running on a Windows box and I am using the latest version of Elasticsearch & Kibana - 7.16.2
If you follow this guide here step by step you will be able to set up and learn how to manage security in Elasticsearch. You start from Minimal Security and go up. All is perfectly explained. If you run in to any problems just ask.
Followed the steps outlined in the Elastic documentation and the How To that you had written Steve and it worked like a charm I know have basic security with HTTPS going.
Pretty sure that the last time that I attempted this I was way over complicating it and going down too many rabbit holes.
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