Authentication
editAuthentication
editElastic Cloud uses API keys to authenticate users against its API. Additionally, it supports the usage of JWT to validate authenticated clients. The preferred authentication method is API keys.
There are two ways to authenticate against the Elasticsearch Service or the Elastic Cloud Enterprise APIs ecctl:
-
By specifying an API key using the
--api-key
flag -
By specifying the
--user
and--pass
flags
The first method requires the user to already have an API key, if this is the case, all the outgoing API requests will use an Authentication API key header.
The second method uses the user
and pass
values to obtain a
valid JWT token, that token is then used as the Authentication
Bearer header for every API call. A goroutine that refreshes the token
every minute is started, so that the token doesn’t expire while we’re
performing actions.