Open Distro for Elasticsearch Security

Open Distro for Elasticsearch Security is an Elasticsearch plugin that offers encryption, authentication, and authorization. When combined with Open Distro for Elasticsearch Security-Advanced Modules, it supports authentication via Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos, JSON web tokens, SAML, OpenID and more. It includes fine grained role-based access control to indices, documents and fields. It also provides multi-tenancy support in Kibana.

Features provided by Security

Encryption:

Full data in transit encryption
Node-to-node encryption
Certificate revocation lists
Hot Certificate renewal

Authentication:

Internal user database
HTTP basic authentication
PKI authentication
Proxy authentication
User Impersonation
Active Directory / LDAP
Kerberos / SPNEGO
JSON web token (JWT)
OpenID Connect (OIDC)
SAML

Access control:

Role-based cluster level access control
Role-based index level access control
User-, role- and permission management
Document-level security
Field-level security
REST management API

Audit/Compliance logging:

Audit logging
Compliance logging for GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, SOX and ISO compliance

Kibana multi-tenancy

True Kibana multi-tenancy

Documentation

Please refer to the technical documentation for detailed information on installing and configuring opendistro-elasticsearch-security plugin.

Quick Start

Install Elasticsearch
Install the opendistro-elasticsearch-security plugin for your Elasticsearch version 6.5.4, e.g.:

<ES directory>/bin/elasticsearch-plugin install \
  -b com.amazon.opendistroforelasticsearch:opendistro_security:0.8.0.0

cd into <ES directory>/plugins/opendistro_security/tools
Execute ./install_demo_configuration.sh, chmod the script first if necessary. This will generate all required TLS certificates and add the Security Plugin Configuration to your elasticsearch.yml file.
Start Elasticsearch
Test the installation by visiting https://localhost:9200. When prompted, use admin/admin as username and password. This user has full access to the cluster.
Display information about the currently logged in user by visiting https://localhost:9200/_opendistro/_security/authinfo.

Test and Build

Run all tests

mvn clean test

Build artifacts (zip, deb, rpm)

mvn clean package -Padvanced -DskipTests
artifact_zip=`ls $(pwd)/target/releases/opendistro-security-*.zip | grep -v admin-standalone`
./gradlew build buildDeb buildRpm --no-daemon -ParchivePath=$artifact_zip -Dbuild.snapshot=false

Config hot reloading

The Security Plugin Configuration is stored in a dedicated index in Elasticsearch itself. Changes to the configuration are pushed to this index via the command line tool. This will trigger a reload of the configuration on all nodes automatically. This has several advantages over configuration via elasticsearch.yml:

Configuration is stored in a central place
No configuration files on the nodes necessary
Configuration changes do not require a restart
Configuration changes take effect immediately

License

This code is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.