Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes known issues

Known issues are significant defects or limitations that may impact your implementation. These issues are actively being worked on and will be addressed in a future release. Review the Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes known issues to help you make informed decisions, such as upgrading to a new version.

3.0.0

On May 19th 2025, it was discovered that the Elastic Maps Server container image in versions 7.17.28, 8.18.0, 8.18.1, 9.0.0 and 9.0.1 does not start on OpenShift Container Platform with the following error: container create failed: open executable: Operation not permitted.

For more information, check Issue #8655.

Workaround

To workaround the issue override the container command for Elastic Maps Server:

		apiVersion: maps.k8s.elastic.co/v1alpha1
kind: ElasticMapsServer
metadata:
  name: ems-sample
spec:
  version: 9.0.0
  count: 1
  podTemplate:
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: maps
          command: [ /bin/sh, -c, "node app/index.js"]

	