When it comes to running the Elastic on Kubernetes infrastructure, we recommend Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) as the best way to run and manage the Elastic Stack.

ECK offers many operational benefits for both our basic-tier and our enterprise-tier customers, such as spinning up cluster nodes that were lost on failed infrastructure, seamless upgrades, rolling cluster changes, and much much more.

With the release of the Elastic Stack Helm charts for Elastic version 8.5.1, we are handing over the ongoing maintenance of our Elastic Stack Helm charts to the community and contributors. The repository will finally be archived after 6 months time. Elastic Stacks deployed on Kubernetes through helm charts will still be fully supported under EOL limitations.

Since we want to provide an even better experience for our customers by running the Elastic Stack on Kubernetes, we will continue maintaining Helm charts applicable to ECK Custom Resources. These charts can be found in the ECK repository.

Helm charts will currently be maintained for ECK Enterprise-tier customers, however, we encourage the community to engage with the existing helm charts for the Elastic Stack and continue supporting their ongoing maintenance.