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.

Basic features provided by Security

Full data in transit encryption
Node-to-node encryption
Certificate revocation lists
Role-based cluster level access control
Role-based index level access control
User-, role- and permission management
Internal user database
HTTP basic authentication
PKI authentication
Proxy authentication
User Impersonation

Advance features included in Security Advanced Modules:

Active Directory / LDAP
Kerberos / SPNEGO
JSON web token (JWT)
OpenID Connect (OIDC)
SAML
Document-level security
Field-level security
Audit logging
Compliance logging for GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, SOX and ISO compliance
True Kibana multi-tenancy
REST management API

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:elasticsearch-security:0.7.0.1

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 Configurationto 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.

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.

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