Recently, I wrote the Introduction to Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.5 article about Spring Data Elasticsearch usage as a NoSQL database. The article covered just the setup of the unsecured Elasticsearch. However, we need to be able to connect to the secured Elasticsearch as well. Let’s follow the previous article and see the needed changes to run and connect to the secured Elasticsearch.

In This Article, You Will Learn

How to create a secure Elasticsearch
How to connect to the secured Elasticsearch with Spring Data Elasticsearch
How to change the password in Elasticsearch

Set Up Secured Elasticsearch

The setup for creating a secure Elasticsearch is pretty similar to the steps in the already-mentioned article. The technologies used in this article, compliant with the compatibility matrix, are: