Kibana Plugin Restrictions

A slightly terrifying requirement for developers of Kibana plugins is that they have to re-build their plugin for every Elasticsearch/Kibana release. Here’s the note from the Kibana Plugins page.

Kibana enforces that the installed plugins match the version of Kibana itself. Plugin developers will have to release a new version of their plugin for each new Kibana release as a result.

Files which require change

There are several files which need ot be changed before starting the build.

• Change the version in ./plugin/package.json
• Change the Docker tag in ./plugin/Dockerfile

# https://github.com/elastic/kibana-docker
FROM docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:5.4.0

• Change the Elasticsearch version in ./docker-compose.yml

Now that all of the files are changed we can work on getting our environment ready for building the plugin.

Build the plugin