Official cookbook to install kibana 4

Elastic Stack Kibana
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I am looking for a chef cookbook to install kibana. I did find kibana_lwrp but it installs ngnix and stuff. This brings me to another question.

Why do i need ngnix with kibana. Most of the articles i find online talk about using ngnix with kibana. I am going to use it inside an internal network, do i really need ngnix ? I played around with kibana after installing it locally and looks like it has a built in webserver. That looks good enough to me.

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You don't need nginx, KB will run perfectly fine by itself.
Some people like to proxy things with it, some use it to provide basic auth.

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This cookbook seems to be for Kibana 3, which did not have a server component. Kibana 4 does as you point out come with a built in web server and does not need nginx.