ELK Release Definition Template

hashistack offer a Screwdriver template that deploys immutable instances of ELK to AWS. It uses the screwdriver-template-main npm package to assist with template validation, publishing, and tagging. The template tags the latest versions with the latest tag.

How to Use This Template

Using the Template

Create a Screwdriver pipeline that uses this template with the screwdriver.yaml file of

---
jobs:
  main:
    requires: [~pr, ~commit]
    template: QubitPi/elk-release-definition-template@latest

The following Screwdriver Secrets needs to be defined before running the pipeline:

• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
• SSL_CERTIFICATE - the content of SSL certificate file serving HTTPS-enabled DNS name of the EC2 hosting our ELK instance. This is the same as the SSL_CERTIFICATE from the general SSL setup of hashistack
• SSL_CERTIFICATE_KEY - the content of SSL certificate key file serving HTTPS-enabled DNS name of the EC2 hosting our ELK instance. This is the same as the SSL_CERTIFICATE_KEY from the general SSL setup of hashistack

To run the pipeline, fill in the AWS-related parameters first

Then hit "Submit" to start deploying.

warning

Once the pipeline deploys ELK, we must remember to do the post setup in EC2 instance.

The password for user 'elastic' can be found packer-build step logs. Here is an example: