Orchestrator-managed users

ECH ECK ECE

The Elasticsearch provides default user credentials to help you get up and running.

In self-managed clusters, these users are created as built-in users.

In orchestrated deployments (ECH, ECE, and ECK), the elastic user is managed by the platform, while other default users are not accessible to end users. The way that credentials are managed for this and other internal users depends on your orchestrator. In this section, you'll learn how to manage credentials for orchestrator-managed users:

In Elastic Cloud Enterprise and Elastic Cloud Hosted, learn how to reset password for the elastic user.
In Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, learn how to manage the elastic user, and how to rotate all auto-generated credentials used by ECK.

Tip

To learn more about built-in users in self-managed clusters, and how to reset built-in user passwords, refer to:

Built-in users in self-managed clusters
Set passwords for native and built-in users in self-managed clusters.