Enterprise Search - Configure Kibana to trust your SSL CA

Elastic Search
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Kibana cannot find or does not trust the SSL certificates for Enterprise Search

Kibana logs the following:

{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2021-09-28T17:42:11+00:00","tags":["error","plugins","enterpriseSearch"],"pid":1220,"message":"Could not perform access check to Enterprise Search: FetchError: request to https://enterprise-search:3002/api/ent/v2/internal/client_config failed, reason: unable to verify the first certificate"}

I tried to modify kibana.yml to include enterpriseSearch.ssl.VerificationMode: none as a last resort, but kibana fails to start with FATAL Error: [config validation of [enterpriseSearch].ssl]: definition for this key is missing) .
I see the same error when I try to pass a ca certificate (elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: and elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: certificate)

ElasticSearch and Kibana version: 7.12
EnterpriseSearch version: 7.12

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Hi @rajkeshav,

It looks like you may be reading documentation for a more recent version of Enterprise Search than you are using. In the latest version (Configure SSL/TLS | Elastic Enterprise Search Documentation [8.2] | Elastic) the fields for enterpriseSearch.ssl.* are available, but in 7.12, you should be using:

You may want to just upgrade to 7.17 or 8.2, especially if you're wanting to use Enterprise Search through Kibana.

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Hi Sean. I was able to resolve this by using version 8. Thank you for your help.