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Improve Subscription requirements for setting up CCR in Elasticsearch
Description
Currently, the Tutorial documentation to set up cross-cluster replication (CCR) only mentions that a cluster should have a valid license that includes cross-cluster replication, and both Platinum and Enterprise subscriptions are valid licenses for CCR, but when following the guide to set up Remote Clusters, there is no mention that the API key based security model is considered to be an "Advanced security for remote clusters" as per the available subscriptions.
There should be a clear "Requirements" section stating what is possible under which license, and propagate these "Requirements" to all relevant documents (f.e. the Create Cross-Cluster API key API). Currently it's not quite clear what is possible under a Platinum license only, for example. Thank you!
@emrcbrn As a rule we delegate to the subscriptions pages as the single source of truth for license requirements for features. Let me know how we can help clarify things in the docs given this constraint.
@leemthompo I think the main issue is here:
when following the guide to set up Remote Clusters, there is no mention that the API key based security model is considered to be an "Advanced security for remote clusters" as per the available subscriptions.
We don't quite mention that both security models here are Enterprise & Platinum respectively. That would be a good start to clarify that there, I'd think.
We don't quite mention that both security models here are Enterprise & Platinum respectively.
But that's because we delegate to the subscriptions page for this. We don't hard code license level specifics in the docs. But I totally feel the pain on this issue!
@jakelandis would you have guidance here?