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Kibana

I already setup Elasticsearch and now want to add the Kibana Dashboard. To get started I first have to exec into the Elasticsearch container - in my case it is called elastic_container-e6d43a0a-300b-ffa7-55f8-7883bee7a412 - and add my Kibana user login:

docker exec -ti elastic_container-e6d43a0a-300b-ffa7-55f8-7883bee7a412 /bin/bash
/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-reset-password --interactive --username kibana_system

I will set the password to mykibanapassword and will have to supply this in my kibana.yml configuration file.

Nomad Job​

Docker-Compose​

I have been using a docker-compose.yml file before to set up a ELK cluster. The Kibana part of looks like:

kibana:
    container_name: kibana
    restart: unless-stopped
    build:
      context: kibana/
      args:
        ELK_VERSION: $ELK_VERSION
    volumes:
      - type: bind
        source: ./kibana/config/kibana.yml
        target: /usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml
        read_only: true
    # ports:
    #   - "5601:5601"
    networks:
      - wikinet
    depends_on:
      - elasticsearch

And the kibana.yml that is included in the image during the build process is:

---
## Default Kibana configuration from Kibana base image.
## https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/docker_generator/templates/kibana_yml.template.js
#
server.name: kibana
server.host: 0.0.0.0
server.publicBaseUrl: https://my.kibana.com
elasticsearch.hosts: [ "http://elasticsearch:9200" ]
monitoring.ui.container.elasticsearch.enabled: true

elasticsearch.username: kibana_system
elasticsearch.password: 'mykibanapassword'

Job Specification​

The translation into a Nomad job file is:

job "wiki_kibana" {
  type        = "service"
  datacenters = ["wiki_search"]

  update {
    max_parallel     = 1
    health_check     = "checks"
    min_healthy_time = "180s"
    healthy_deadline = "5m"
    progress_deadline = "10m"
    auto_revert = true
    auto_promote = true
    canary = 1
  }

  group "wiki_kibana" {
    count = 1

    network {
        port "ki_http" {
              static = 5601
          }
    }

    task "kibana_container" {
      driver = "docker"
      kill_timeout = "600s"
      kill_signal = "SIGTERM"

      template {
          data = <<EOH
server.name: kibana
server.host: 0.0.0.0
server.publicBaseUrl: https://my.kibana.com
elasticsearch.hosts: [ "http://my.server.ip:9200" ]
monitoring.ui.container.elasticsearch.enabled: true
elasticsearch.username: kibana_system
elasticsearch.password: 'mykibanapassword'
          EOH
  
          destination = "local/kibana/kibana.yml"
        }

      config {
        network_mode = "host"
        image = "docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:8.3.2"
        command = "kibana"
        ports = ["ki_http"]
        volumes = [
          "local/kibana/kibana.yml:/usr/share/kibana/config/kibana.yml",
        ]

        ulimit {
            memlock = "-1"
            nofile  = "65536"
            nproc   = "8192"
          }
      }

      service {
        name = "kibana"
        check {
          name     = "http-tcp"
          port     = "ki_http"
          type     = "tcp"
          interval = "30s"
          timeout  = "4s"
        }
        
        # check {
        #     name     = "rest-http"
        #     type     = "http"
        #     port     = "ki_http"
        #     path     = "/"
        #     interval = "30s"
        #     timeout  = "4s"
        #     header {
        #       Authorization = ["Basic myelasticpassword"]
        #     }
        #   }
        }
  
        resources {
          cpu    = 1024
          memory = 2048
        }
    }
  }
}