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Deploying Splunk Enterprise on Kubernetes

fzel
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Hi everyone,

We’re currently evaluating whether to deploy Splunk in a Kubernetes environment or continue running it on bare metal as we transition from a standalone setup to a high-availability (HA) architecture. I think I've read somewhere that running it in k8s is not recommended but I haven't found any reasons why.

I’d love to hear from anyone with experience or recommendations on this.

Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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livehybrid
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Hi @fzel 

You can certainly deploy Splunk on K8s using "Splunk Operator for Kubernetes" as per the link that @thahir provided, which is a valid and supported Splunk Validated Architecture (SVA), with the biggest limitation being if you intend to run ITSI on it then this is not currently supported.

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