Terraform Provider Elastic Stack

Use of the provider

The Elastic Stack provider allows you to manage and configure the Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, etc) as code using terraform.

Getting started

The provider supports Elastic Stack versions 7.x+

It is recommended to setup at least minimum security, https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-minimal-setup.html in order to interact with the Elasticsearch and be able to use the provider's full capabilities.

Configuring required providers:

terraform {
  required_version = ">= 1.0.0"
  required_providers {
    elasticstack = {
      source  = "elastic/elasticstack"
      version = "~> 0.3.3"
    }
  }
}

Authentication

The Elasticstack provider offers few different ways of providing credentials for authentication. The following methods are supported:

• Static credentials
• Environment variables
• Each elasticsearch resource supports elasticsearch_connection block - allowing using the same provider to configure many different clusters at the same time

Static credentials

Default static credentials can be provided by adding the username, password and endpoints in elasticsearch block:

provider "elasticstack" {
  elasticsearch {
    username  = "elastic"
    password  = "changeme"
    endpoints = ["http://localhost:9200"]
  }
}

Environment Variables

You can provide your credentials for the default connection via the ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME, ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD and comma-separated list ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINTS, environment variables, representing your user, password and Elasticsearch API endpoints respectively.

provider "elasticstack" {
  elasticsearch {}
}

Per resource credentials

See docs related to the specific resources.

Developing the Provider

If you wish to work on the provider, you'll first need Go installed on your machine (see Requirements).

To compile the provider, run go install. This will build the provider and put the provider binary in the $GOPATH/bin directory.

To install the provider locally into the ~/.terraform.d/plugins/... directory one can use make install command. This will allow to refer this provider dirrecty in the Terraform configuration without needing to download it from the registry.

To generate or update documentation, run make gen. All the generated docs will have to be committed to the repository as well.

In order to run the full suite of Acceptance tests, run make testacc.

If you have Docker installed, you can use following command to start the Elasticsearch container and run Acceptance tests against it:

$ make docker-testacc

To clean up the used containers and to free up the assigned container names, run make docker-clean.

Requirements

• Terraform >= 1.0.0
• Go >= 1.17

Building The Provider

1. Clone the repository
2. Enter the repository directory
3. Build the provider using the make install command:

$ make install

Adding Dependencies

This provider uses Go modules. Please see the Go documentation for the most up to date information about using Go modules.

To add a new dependency github.com/author/dependency to your Terraform provider:

go get github.com/author/dependency
go mod tidy

Then commit the changes to go.mod and go.sum.