Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes 3.0.0

• Quickstart guide

Release Highlights

• ECK 3.0.0 adds support for Elastic Stack version 9.0.0. Elastic Stack version 9.0.0 is not supported on ECK operators running versions earlier than 3.0.0.

Features and enhancements

• Add support for defining dnsPolicy and dnsConfig options for the ECK operator StatefulSet #7999
• Config: Allow escaping dots in keys via [unsplit.key] syntax #8512 (issue: #8499)
• Enable copying of ECK images to Amazon ECR to make it easier for users to find our own ECK operator in the AWS marketplace #8427
• Support new agent image path as of 9.0 #8518
• Remove ubi suffix for 9.x images #8509
• Remove support for 6.x Stack version #8507
• Log resourceVersion on Create and Update #8503
• Remove policyID validation #8449 (issue: #8446)
• Refactor APM server for 9.0.0 #8448 (issue: #8447)
• Improve error messages and events during Fleet setup #8350
• Validate updates to 9.0 go through 8.18 #8559 (issue: #8557)

Fixes

• Correctly parse managed namespaces when specified as an environment variable #8513 (issue: #7542)

Documentation improvements

• Fix unresolved attribute in ECK Quickstart #8432
• Add synthetic monitoring example #8385 (issue: #6294)
• Update heap dump command to use the most recent Java process #8294
• Document the need for an ingest node for Enterprise Search analytics #8271

Miscellaneous

• chore(deps): update Docker tag registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal to v9.5-1741850109 #8544
• Update golang.org/x/net package to 0.38.0 #8591
• chore(deps): update Docker tag docker.elastic.co/wolfi/go to v1.24 #8453
• fix(deps): update module go.elastic.co/apm/v2/* to v2.6.3 #8440
• chore(deps): update Wolfi to v1.23.5-r1 #8434
• fix(deps): update k8s #8400
• fix(deps): update module github.com/gkampitakis/go-snaps to v0.5.8 #8393
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.29.0 to 0.31.0 #8334
• fix(deps): update module github.com/prometheus/common to v0.61.0 #8333
• fix(deps): update Kubernetes dependencies to v0.32.0 and controller-runtime to v0.19.3 #8330
• fix(deps): update module github.com/magiconair/properties to v1.8.9 #8307
• chore(deps): update Docker tag docker.elastic.co/wolfi/go to v1.23.4 #8306
• fix(deps): update module github.com/stretchr/testify to v1.10.0 #8282