Creating a Kubernetes Secret for ELK

10.2.2 Creating a Kubernetes Secret for ELK

Create a Kubernetes secret for Elasticsearch using the API Key or Password:
1. If ELK uses an API Key for authentication:
```
kubectl create secret generic elasticsearch-pw-elastic -n <domain_namespace> --from-literal password=<ELK_APIKEY>
```
  For example:
```
kubectl create secret generic elasticsearch-pw-elastic -n oudsmns --from-literal password=<ELK_APIKEY>
```
  The output will look similar to the following:
```
secret/elasticsearch-pw-elastic created
```
2. If ELK uses a password for authentication:
```
kubectl create secret generic elasticsearch-pw-elastic -n <domain_namespace> --from-literal password=<ELK_PASSWORD>
```
  For example:
```
kubectl create secret generic elasticsearch-pw-elastic -n oudsmns --from-literal password=<ELK_PASSWORD>
```
  The output will look similar to the following:
```
secret/elasticsearch-pw-elastic created
```
Note:
It is recommended that the ELK Stack is created with authentication enabled. If no authentication is enabled you may create a secret using the values above.

Create a Kubernetes secret to access the required images on hub.docker.com:

Note:

You must first have a user account on hub.docker.com

kubectl create secret docker-registry "dockercred" \
--docker-server="https://index.docker.io/v1/" \
--docker-username="<docker_username>" \
--docker-password=<password> \
--docker-email=<docker_email_credentials> \
--namespace=<domain_namespace>

For example:

kubectl create secret docker-registry "dockercred" \
--docker-server="https://index.docker.io/v1/" \
--docker-username="username" \
--docker-password=<password> \
--docker-email=user@example.com \
--namespace=oudsmns

The output will look similar to the following:

secret/dockercred created