Configure ECE

Now that you have Elastic Cloud Enterprise up and running, take a look at some of the additional features that you can configure:

• Assign roles to hosts - Make sure new hosts can be used for their intended purpose after you install ECE on them.
• System deployments configuration - Best practices for ECE system deployments to ensure a highly available and resilient setup.
• Configure deployment templates – Define the resources, topology, hardware, and configurations that will be applied to your deployments.
• Manage Elastic Stack versions - Upload or remove Elastic Stack packs.
• Change the ECE API URL - Configure the HTTPS URL used to access the ECE API.
• Change endpoint URLs - Configure the URLs to access Elasticsearch and Kibana deployments to match your domain name and proxy certificate.
• Enable custom endpoint aliases - This feature allows to use aliases in the endpoint URLs instead of cluster UUIDs.

Other sections of the documentation describe important ECE features to consider:

• Configure ECE users and roles - Manage authentication and authorization at ECE platform level.
• Manage security certificates - Configure Cloud UI and Proxy TLS/SSL certificates.
• Manage licenses - Keep Elastic Cloud Enterprise current with a valid license.
• Manage snapshot repositories - To back up your Elasticsearch clusters automatically, you need to configure a snapshot repository.

• Configure allocator affinity - Determine how ECE distributes your Elastic Stack deployments across allocators.
• Change allocator disconnect timeout - Configure how long ECE waits before considering allocators to be disconnected.
• Migrate ECE to Podman hosts - If you are running a Docker based installation and you need to migrate to Podman.
• Migrate ECE on Podman hosts to SELinux in enforcing mode - Migrate ECE to SELinux in enforcing mode using Podman.

Refer to ECE maintenance for important maintenance activities, including adding capacity, applying OS patches, and addressing host failures.

• Scale out your installation - Need to add more capacity? Here’s how.
• Enable maintenance mode - Perform administrative actions on allocators safely by putting them into maintenance mode first.
• Move nodes from allocators - Moves all Elasticsearch clusters and Kibana instances to another allocator, so that the allocator is no longer used for handling user requests.
• Perform host maintenance - Apply operating system patches and other maintenance to hosts safely without removing them from your ECE installation.
• Delete hosts - Remove a host from your ECE installation, either because it is no longer needed or because it is faulty.