Use Open Distro security plugin in regular Elastic stack

Question

I was trying to find an opensource plugin to use LDAP/AD authentication for Elasticsearch/Kibana. I found Open Distro which is currently based on Elasticsearch 7.10.2, and I wanted to use the security plugin in my existing regular ES stack which works with 7.11.2, but it complains that it can't work with newer versions of ES. The problem is that I cant downgrade anyway without losing my data.

Is there another way (opensource) to integrate LDAP whether using Open Disto or another plugin?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 15 '21 at 14:22

1

You need to "downgrade" in that case if you want to stick with the latest version of this plugin I think.

You could start a new cluster with 7.10.2 and use reindex from remote to reindex your data in the "new" cluster. So read from 7.11 and write to 7.10.

answered Jun 15 '21 at 14:22

dadoonet

14,109
3
42
49

Thanks for you answer. After trying in different ways this was the best option! – Badr Jul 27 '21 at 11:01
Out of curiosity what feature are you using which is not available in elasticsearch 7.13? – dadoonet Jul 28 '21 at 13:45
LDAP integration as a cost-free solution. – Badr Jul 28 '21 at 13:48
I see. Indeed this one is only available from Platinum level license. – dadoonet Jul 29 '21 at 16:37

Use Open Distro security plugin in regular Elastic stack

1 Answers1