🎉 Welcome to Elastic Stack Vagrant! 🎉

🚀 Introduction

This repository was created to help you easily test the Elastic Stack in a Vagrant environment. It's perfect for experimenting with the latest versions of Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Fleet Server with Elastic Agent, following the current architecture promoted by Elastic for observability and security solutions.

💡 Architecture Overview: By default, this setup deploys:

Elasticsearch: The heart of the Elastic Stack for search and data storage.
Kibana: The visualization layer that provides powerful analytics and dashboards.
Fleet Server with Elastic Agent: A centralized agent management solution for gathering metrics, logs, and security data.

Additionally, you have the flexibility to deploy other components such as:

Logstash: For advanced data processing pipelines.
Beats (like Metricbeat, Auditbeat, etc.): Lightweight data shippers that collect and forward data to Elasticsearch.

This setup is automated using Ansible, ensuring that the deployment and configuration of each Elastic Stack component is smooth and repeatable. Ansible manages provisioning, making it easier to get your environment up and running with minimal effort.

For more information about Elastic Stack components, check the official Elastic website.

🛠️ Compatibility

This repository use the latest version by default. You can change the version by modifying inventories/staging/group_vars/staging.yml.

💡 Note: Elasticsearch and Kibana are configured to use TLS/SSL by default for enhanced security.

🔐 Credentials

To access the Elastic Stack services, use the following credentials:

User	Password
elastic	thanos

🏁 Getting Started

Prerequisites

Before you can get started, you'll need to install the following software:

Vagrant: Download it from here 🛠️
VirtualBox: Get it from here 💻

💻 Up and SSH

Install Git

Depending on your operating system, follow these steps to install Git:

Linux 🐧

For Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt -y install git

For CentOS/RedHat:

sudo yum -y install git

Then, clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/rdrgporto/elastic-stack-vagrant.git

Windows 🏁

Download and install Git Bash, then run:

git clone https://github.com/rdrgporto/elastic-stack-vagrant.git

🚀 Running Vagrant

Vagrant is configured with both internal and public network options. You can use the public network to log in via any SSH client like Putty, MobaXterm, or Termius.

To start the virtual machine:

Linux/MacOS:

cd /path/to/your/elastic-stack-vagrant/
vagrant up

Windows: Open Git Bash or Command Prompt and navigate to the project folder:
```
cd C:/path/to/your/elastic-stack-vagrant/
vagrant.exe up
```

Once it's up and running, you can log in via SSH:

Linux/MacOS:
```
vagrant ssh
```
Windows: Using Git Bash or Command Prompt:
```
vagrant.exe ssh
```

🔄 Common Vagrant Commands

Here are some useful Vagrant commands to manage your virtual machine:

Linux/MacOS:

vagrant up        # Start the virtual machine
vagrant destroy   # Remove/delete the virtual machine
vagrant ssh       # Connect to the virtual machine via SSH
vagrant halt      # Shutdown the virtual machine
vagrant provision # Re-run Ansible provisioning

Windows (using Git Bash or Command Prompt):

vagrant.exe up        # Start the virtual machine
vagrant.exe destroy   # Remove/delete the virtual machine
vagrant.exe ssh       # Connect to the virtual machine via SSH
vagrant.exe halt      # Shutdown the virtual machine
vagrant.exe provision # Re-run Ansible provisioning

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to open issues or submit pull requests to improve this project. Let's make testing the Elastic Stack easier together! 💡

📄 License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See the LICENSE file for more details.