[Question] Kibana with enhanced-table running on Kubernetes

[ovidiaconescu]

I'm trying to install Kibana with a plugin via the initContainers functionality and it doesn't seem to create the pod with the plugin in it.

The pod gets created and Kibana works perfectly, but the plugin is not installed using the yaml below.

apiVersion: kibana.k8s.elastic.co/v1
kind: Kibana
metadata:
  name: quickstart
spec:
  version: 7.11.2
  count: 1
  elasticsearchRef:
    name: quickstart
  podTemplate:
    spec:
      initContainers:
      - name: install-plugins
        command:
        - sh
        - -c
        - |
          bin/kibana-plugin install https://github.com/fbaligand/kibana-enhanced-table/releases/download/v1.11.2/enhanced-table-1.11.2_7.11.2.zip

[fbaligand]

Well, without logs, it’s complicated to say what is the problem. I don’t think that the problem is tied to enhanced table plugin itself, but more with the way you install in kubernetes.

However, I recommend to use a custom image than init-containers. More info here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-kibana-plugins.html

[ovidiaconescu]

Custom image worked!

apiVersion: kibana.k8s.elastic.co/v1
kind: Kibana
metadata:
  name: quickstart
spec:
  version: 7.11.2
  image: my-conatiner-path/kibana-with-plugins:7.11.2
  count: 1
  elasticsearchRef:
    name: quickstart

[ovidiaconescu]

dockerfile for reference

FROM docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:7.11.2
RUN /usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana-plugin install https://github.com/fbaligand/kibana-enhanced-table/releases/download/v1.11.2/enhanced-table-1.11.2_7.11.2.zip
RUN /usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana --optimize

[fbaligand]

Thanks for feedback, and happy that it finally works fine!