Deprecated as of Opendistro version 1.4:

Security-advanced-modules and security-parent have been merged into security.

Open Distro For Elasticsearch Security Parent

Open Distro for Elasticsearch Security Parent is the parent repo for the Open Distro for Elasticsearch security plugin repositories, including:

Security

Security-SSL

Security Advanced Modules

Security Kibana Plugin

Documentation

Please refer to the technical documentation for detailed information.

Requirements

Make sure you are in the elasticsearch/linux_distributions folder. Here are the instructions for installing Java (OpenJDK 11) for Debian based distributions.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk

Build

To build the security plugin from source follow these instructions in this order:

Download the security-parent source code:

git clone https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/security-parent.git

Install to the local repository folder named .m2:

cd security-parent
mvn clean install
cd ..

Download the security-ssl source code:

(Note: This step is needed only for the security plug-in for Open Distro version 0.10.0 supporting Elasticsearch 6.8.1 and below.)

git clone https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/security-ssl.git

Install to the local repository folder named .m2:

cd security-ssl
mvn clean install
cd ..

Download the security source code:

git clone https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/security.git

Install to the local repository folder named .m2:

cd security
mvn clean install
cd ..

Download the security-advanced-modules source code:

git clone https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/security-advanced-modules.git

Install to the local repository folder named .m2:

cd security-advanced-modules
mvn clean install
cd ..

Build the Elasticsearch plugin and install final artifacts:

cd security
mvn clean package -Padvanced

The above builds the final artifacts in zip format.

cd target/releases/

The artifacts can be found in the folder listed above.

Detailed instructions on how to build the security-kibana plugin can be found here:

https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/security-kibana-plugin/blob/master/README.md#build

Install

Install the plugin to your Elasticsearch cluster with the following commands:

cd elasticsearch/bin
./elasticsearch-plugin install file:///path/to/security/target/releases/opendistro_security-<version>.zip

License

This code is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.

opendistro-for-elasticsearch/deprecated-security-parent