Elastic Agent on an Azure VM Scale Set

Introduction

Elastic provides a unified observability solution for your entire Azure ecosystem. The scripts in this repo will deploy an Azure VM Scale Set (VMSS) and its associated required components (VNET, Load Balancer, Public IP etc.). After the VMSS has been deployed, it will install the Elastic Agent to send metrics data to your managed Elasticsearch cluster running in any of the 3 cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Follow instructions in Deploy VMSS & Elastic Agent to VMSS cluster to deploy full set of resources.
Follow instructions in Deploy Elastic Agent to existing VMSS Cluster to deploy Elastic Agent to an already existing VMSS cluster

Pre-requisistes

Deploy Elasticsearch cluster

Deploy a managed Elasticsearch cluster in the cloud provider of your choice. More details can be found here on how you can get a free cloud trial if you don't already have a subscription
Create an Elastic Cloud deployment and save your credentials as that will be needed later
Go to cloud.elastic.co and choose the gear right next to the newly created deployment.
Once in the deployment view page, copy the Cloud ID value and save it.

Create configuration files

Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/sajitsasi/elastic-agent-azure-vmss.git
Change directory to repo location: cd elastic-agent-azure-vmss/

Create a file named public-settings.json with the following information:

{
  "username": "<username_from_deployment_credentials_above>",
  "cloudId": "<Cloud_ID_copied_from_deployment_above>"
}

Create a file named private-settings.json with the following information:
```
{
  "password": "<password_from_deployment_credentials_above>"
}
```

Instructions

Deploy ALL Azure resources and Elastic Agent

Login to Azure: az login
Run script ./01deploy_vmss.sh

Deploy Elastic Agent to already existing VMSS

Login to Azure: az login
Run script ./02deploy_elastic_agent.sh -g <azure_resource_group> -v <vmss_cluster_name>

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