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Published inMar 2022
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Asjad Athick
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Asjad Athick

Asjad Athick is a security specialist at Elastic with demonstratable experience in architecting enterprise-scale solutions on the cloud. He believes in empowering people with the right tools to help them achieve their goals. At Elastic, he works with a broad range of customers across Australia and New Zealand to help them understand their environment; this allows them to build robust threat detection, prevention, and response capabilities. He previously worked in the telecommunications space to build a security capability to help analysts identify and contextualize unknown cyber threats. With a background in application development and technology consulting, he has worked with various small businesses and start-up organizations across Australia.
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Managing Elastic Agent at scale with Fleet

Fleet is a component that's used to manage Elastic Agent configurations across your environment. Fleet is made up of two components:

  • Fleet UI is a Kibana application with a user interface for users to onboard and configure agents, manage the onboarded data, and administer agents across your environment.
  • Fleet Server is a backend component that Elastic Agents from across your environment can connect to, to retrieve agent policies, updates, and management commands.

Fleet Server is a special mode of Elastic Agent and can be deployed centrally alongside your Elastic Stack deployment. You can configure multiple instances of Fleet Server in a load-balanced setup to scale performance and add availability. Fleet Server requires connectivity to the backing Elasticsearch cluster to operate.

The architecture with Elastic Agent and Fleet involved looks as follows:

Figure 9.2 – Architecture with Elastic...

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Asjad Athick

Asjad Athick is a security specialist at Elastic with demonstratable experience in architecting enterprise-scale solutions on the cloud. He believes in empowering people with the right tools to help them achieve their goals. At Elastic, he works with a broad range of customers across Australia and New Zealand to help them understand their environment; this allows them to build robust threat detection, prevention, and response capabilities. He previously worked in the telecommunications space to build a security capability to help analysts identify and contextualize unknown cyber threats. With a background in application development and technology consulting, he has worked with various small businesses and start-up organizations across Australia.
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