1.8.0 release highlights

New and notable changes in version 1.8.0 of Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes. Check Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes version 1.8.0 for the full list of changes.

The ECK operator Helm chart is now generally available. It provides an easy way to install and configure the operator along with its Custom Resource Definitions.

The ECK 1.x major release series is the last to support OpenShift 3.11. Starting ECK 2.0, OpenShift 3.11 won’t be supported anymore.

Several bugs have been fixed in this release, including Elastic Agent certificates handling and inconsistent Elasticsearch Pod PreStop hook.