Cerebro for ELK

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Cerebro (Github Repo) is a Web UI to examine ELK cluster state as well as issuing REST API calls, similiar to Kibana but it is more straightforward through UIs.

Post related: Using Cerebro as Web UI to manage an ELK cluster

For example, I deploy one cerebro instance on dev cluster and port forward the cerebro service port to my bastion local:

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---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: cerebro-deployment
  labels:
    app: cerebro
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: cerebro
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: cerebro
    spec:
      imagePullSecrets:
      - name: <your image pull secret>
      containers:
      - name: cerebro
        # update to available docker image address and tag
        image: lmenezes/cerebro:0.9.4
        ports:
        - containerPort: 9000
        args:
        # set default elasticsearch cluster endpoint
        - -Dhosts.0.host=http://xxxx:9200

Then executing port forward:

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# cerebro-deployment-xxxx is the pod name
# 9123:9000: 9123 is local port, 9000 is pod port
kubectl port-forward cerebro-deployment-xxxx 9123:9000

Then accessing cerebro web UI from the browser by localhost:9123.

There are other forward formats, for example:

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---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: cerebro-service
spec:
  selector:
    app: cerebro
  ports:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 9000
      targetPort: 9000
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# 9123: local port
# 9000: svc port
kubectl port-forward service/cerebro-service 9123:9000