Chapter 2: Installing and Running the Elastic Stack

Now that you know about the core components of the Elastic Stack and what they do, it is time to get them installed and running. As described in the previous chapter, there are a few options available to orchestrate the stack. All core components can be run on multiple platforms (such as Linux, Windows, containers, and so on). This chapter will look at the most common platforms for installation, rather than exhaustively covering all installation options supported by the components.

While it is good to understand how the different installation options work, you can choose your preferred method to run your lab environment to follow along with the examples in future chapters of this book.

In this chapter, we will specifically look at the following:

• Manual installation of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats
• Automating the installation of components using Ansible
• Using Elastic Cloud Enterprise to orchestrate...