Updating wazuh manager password in kubernetes
Updating wazuh manager password in kubernetes Updated as of 2025-11-06 After scouring the internet (where even the LLM was giving me wrong answers), I had to scour for information scattered across gitub issues and various blog posts. All of them were slightly wrong so I want to document my steps on updating the wazuh dashboard admin password for a kubernetes deployment of wazuh. Here is how I did it. The guide assumes the wazuh-kubernetes repository was used to deploy the cluster. Step 1 - Generate the password hash Shell into wazuh-indexer pod kubectl exec -it -n wazuh pod/wazuh-indexer-0 -- bash Generate password (the output will be a hash. Remember this!): export JAVA_HOME=/usr/share/wazuh-indexer/jdk bash /usr/share/wazuh-indexer/plugins/opensearch-security/tools/hash.sh < type your password > < PW_HASH > Step 2 - Base64 encode your password Outside of the indexer pod, base64 encode your password. We will need both later. echo -n < new_password...