Add ARM packages

[tsg]

For some of the Beats, namely topbeat and filebeat, linux on ARM would be easy to support, because they have been reported to work already. So what's missing is some sort of packages. We could start with a simple .tar.gz containing the binary and the config file, then we could also look into creating deb packages for Rasbian and the like.

[robin13]

+1

[jakommo]

:+1:

[mussi]

+1

[kai5263499]

+1

[pulzpulz]

+1

[jaredmcqueen]

+1

[TobiMarg]

As there are now nightly builds for ARM available, I think it would be really useful (and probably relatively easy) to do the same for stable builds. Of course, .deb packages would be the next logical step and would make deployment much easier (currently I have to use the nightlies and copy the service file from the stable .deb).

[emaayan]

+1, as well, does anyone know where i can find the closest nightly build to 5.1.1 release for arm distribution?

[arqtv]

https://beats-nightlies.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html?prefix=jenkins/filebeat/ pick top line 1067-etc

[andig]

https://beats-nightlies.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html?prefix=jenkins/filebeat/ pick top line 1067-etc

Seems there are no arm builds anymore- any ideas for raspi3?

[VladoPortos]

+1 this would be so useful, I'm running 10 Rpi, and local hosted log monitoring would be a god send.. there is literally no solution for arm server :( been looking for two days and besides something like netdata I found nothing ( and that one does not do logs as far as I know :( )

[jakommo]

Not as sleek as a pre-built package, but you can relatively easy cross compile it yourself using these instructions: https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-install-filebeat-on-a-arm-based-sbc-eg-raspberry-pi-3/103670/4

[andig]

I've meanwhile managed to compile on a Raspberry Pi3. If there is need for a detailed write-up please let me know.

[VladoPortos]

@andig I would appreciate a detail step by step guide :) ( would use it on rpi and assus tinker board ), technically all I need is filebeat I think, since the elastisearch and the rest is on separate x86 server...

[andig]

My compile instructions can be found here https://gist.github.com/andig/650915e02b18cfe38de6516686977bca, hope they can be useful...

[calston]

Looks like the nightlies are gone now. Would be nice to get that back, compiling source on a Raspberry Pi is the opposite of "fun".

[emaayan]

it would be nice if there was some documented procedure for this..or scripts.

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[ruflin]

I started to work on this PR here some time ago: https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/6470 This should solve the issue of having an easy command for it and probably also having it in our nightlies again.

[jakommo]

it would be nice if there was some documented procedure for this..or scripts.

Inspired by @andrewkroh discuss post I created a simple docker container a while ago to cross compile for ARM. Just pushed it to github, you can find it here: https://github.com/jakommo/docker-beats-arm-builder

Looking forward to get https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/6470 merged

[calston]

@jakommo Handy! Thanks.

[markwalkom]

Given https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/6470 has been merged, are we at a point where we can have auto-compiled packages (even tar.gz) we can put up? Even if it's not an "official" and supported release, and not just the 7.0.0 alpha, it's be super handy.

I'm coming across more ARM architecture these days - networking gear, RPIs, VPC hosts that do ARM only. And if rumours are true, Apple might end up shifting to the processor. Makes sense for us to get ahead of at least the latter if we can :)

[ruflin]

We have the arm packages in our beats snapshot builds if that helps: https://beats-package-snapshots.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

[markwalkom]

Thanks @ruflin, I have used those but they are 7.X alpha's and they make me edgy, even if they are stable :)

[ruflin]

Got it, so you would be looking for 6.x or event 6.3.1 ones which are not official?

[markwalkom]

Ideally yeah. Even if it's in the same snapshot "repo", we are building them anyway so exposing them would be a great step.

[ruflin]

It seems at the moment we only have a packaging task on CI for master. We could probably add one too for 6.x: https://beats-ci.elastic.co/job/elastic+beats+master+package/