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Deployment models

Serverless

Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Serverless interfaces and procedures might differ from classic Elastic Stack deployments.

Stack

The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

There are various models for setting up Elastic Agents to work with Elasticsearch. The recommended approach is to use Fleet, a web-based UI in Kibana, to centrally manage all of your Elastic Agents and their policies. Using Fleet requires having an instance of Fleet Server that acts as the interface between the Fleet UI and your Elastic Agents.

For an overview of Fleet Server, including details about how it communicates with Elasticsearch, how to ensure high availability, and more, refer to What is Fleet Server?.

The requirements for setting up Fleet Server differ, depending on your particular deployment model:

Elastic Cloud Serverless
In a Serverless environment, Fleet Server is offered as a service, it is configured and scaled automatically without the need for any user intervention.
Elastic Cloud Hosted
If you’re running Elasticsearch and Kibana with Elastic Cloud Hosted, no extra setup is required unless you want to scale your deployment. Elastic Cloud Hosted runs a hosted version of Integrations Server that includes Fleet Server. For details about this deployment model, refer to Deploy on Elastic Cloud.
Elastic Cloud Hosted with Fleet Server on-premise
When you use an Elastic Cloud Hosted deployment you may still choose to run Fleet Server on-premise. For details about this deployment model and set up instructions, refer to Deploy Fleet Server on-premises and Elasticsearch on Cloud.
Docker and Kubernetes
You can deploy Fleet-managed Elastic Agent in Docker or on Kubernetes. Refer to Run Elastic Agent in a container or Run Elastic Agent on Kubernetes managed by Fleet for all of the configuration instructions. For a Kubernetes install we also have a Helm chart available to simplify the installation. Details for configuring Fleet Server are included with the Elastic Agent install steps.
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
You can deploy Fleet-managed Elastic Agent in an Elastic Cloud Kubernetes environment that provides configuration and management capabilities for the full Elastic Stack. For details, refer to Run Fleet-managed Elastic Agent on ECK.
Self-managed

For self-managed deployments, you must install and host Fleet Server yourself. For details about this deployment model and set up instructions, refer to Deploy on-premises and self-managed.