Proper planning of a deployment architecture is one of the critical factors in unlocking the Elastic Stack potential, leading to better operational efficiency and optimum performance.Highlighted below are parameters that influence the architecture. Based on the organization's needs, customers are encouraged to dive deeper into these aspects using the mentioned resources.Node … [Read more...] about 5 best practices for Elastic Cloud production deployment
Deployment
Enrich Kubernetes with New Deployment Tracking Capability
When things go wrong, we’d all love the ability to go back in time, return things to the way they were, and fix whatever issues pop up at the start so they never happen in the first place.This is no different when maintaining complex microservices-based architectures. With any complex system, things are bound to go wrong from time to time. When it’s your responsibility to … [Read more...] about Enrich Kubernetes with New Deployment Tracking Capability
Secure your Elastic Cloud deployment with AWS PrivateLink traffic filter
Traffic filters consist of rule(s) that specify the source of traffic, such as IP/CIDR or AWS VPC endpoint, and rule sets, which are a set of traffic filter rules. Rule sets are then associated with the deployment and can restrict access to the deployment based on those rules.By default, customers connect to deployment over the public internet. Customers can assign multiple … [Read more...] about Secure your Elastic Cloud deployment with AWS PrivateLink traffic filter
Adding free and open Elastic APM as part of your Elastic Observability deployment
In a recent post, we showed you how to get started with the free and open tier of Elastic Observability. Below, we'll walk through what you need to do to expand your deployment so you can start gathering metrics from application performance monitoring (APM) or "tracing" data in your observability cluster, for free.What is APM?Application performance monitoring lets you see … [Read more...] about Adding free and open Elastic APM as part of your Elastic Observability deployment
Simplify your Elastic on AWS deployment with the Elastic Cloud Quick Start
Build a secure and highly available environmentThis deployment offers key components to help increase resiliency and security in your environment including a highly available architecture that spans multiple availability zones, a private Virtual Private Network (VPC), and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) to help protect web applications from common web exploits. To further … [Read more...] about Simplify your Elastic on AWS deployment with the Elastic Cloud Quick Start
Automate your Cisco Secure Firewall deployment
Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) and Automation are now common requests from our customers deploying Cisco Secure Firewalls. This is accelerated with a rapid development of software applications in multi-cloud environments. Our response to this trend is making Cisco Secure Firewall deployable as a code utilizing new IaC templates, which we are happy to announce! To implement IaC, … [Read more...] about Automate your Cisco Secure Firewall deployment
Recapping RSAC 2021: Cisco’s Keynote, Zero Trust Deployment & Passwordless Authentication
It was a packed virtual RSA Conference this year. Although I missed being in San Francisco’s Moscone center, visiting booths and chatting with industry peers, the virtual experience did have one key benefit in my opinion – the on-demand replays of the sessions. I was able to watch all the sessions that I wanted to without having to rush across the floors of the Moscone … [Read more...] about Recapping RSAC 2021: Cisco’s Keynote, Zero Trust Deployment & Passwordless Authentication