Deploy a Kibana instance

To deploy your Kibana instance go through the following steps.

Specify a Kibana instance and associate it with your Elasticsearch cluster:

cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: kibana.k8s.elastic.co/v1
kind: Kibana
metadata:
  name: quickstart
spec:
  version: 8.16.1
  count: 1
  elasticsearchRef:
    name: quickstart
EOF

Monitor Kibana health and creation progress.

Similar to Elasticsearch, you can retrieve details about Kibana instances:
```
kubectl get kibana
```
And the associated Pods:
```
kubectl get pod --selector='kibana.k8s.elastic.co/name=quickstart'
```
Access Kibana.

A ClusterIP Service is automatically created for Kibana:
```
kubectl get service quickstart-kb-http
```
Use kubectl port-forward to access Kibana from your local workstation:
```
kubectl port-forward service/quickstart-kb-http 5601
```
Open https://localhost:5601 in your browser. Your browser will show a warning because the self-signed certificate configured by default is not verified by a third party certificate authority and not trusted by your browser. You can temporarily acknowledge the warning for the purposes of this quick start but it is highly recommended that you configure valid certificates for any production deployments.

Login as the elastic user. The password can be obtained with the following command:
```
kubectl get secret quickstart-es-elastic-user -o=jsonpath='{.data.elastic}' | base64 --decode; echo
```

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