By making Homebrew formulae updates in our tap an automated part of our release process, we can reliably make these updates available at the same time that we release all of our other artifacts.

A second motivation for creating our own tap is the ability it gives us to make sure that Homebrew users always have access to the latest versions of our software. This is important to us as we aim to provide a consistent experience for users of the default and OSS distributions. And even better, the default distribution now includes free security, too. First, you can now use the official Elastic Homebrew tap to access both the OSS and the default distribution, which includes free features such as index lifecycle management (ILM), Elasticsearch SQL, and Canvas visualizations to name a few. Creating our own tap enables us to improve the user experience in a number of ways. That’s why we want to make sure that all of the Elastic Stack software is easily accessible for installation using Homebrew. We always strive to meet our users where they are, and for many users, that’s Homebrew. Within Elastic, many of our engineers are Homebrew users themselves, and one of our employees is a Homebrew maintainer. A tap is a mechanism for third-parties, such as Elastic, to make additional software available to Homebrew users by providing additional formulae.Īt Elastic, we're longtime fans of the Homebrew community and all the great work they do to support their users on macOS (e.g., supporting every major release of macOS on day one) they are made of win. Core Homebrew provides formulae for installing common OSS software. Homebrew is referred to in its man page as 'the missing package manager for macOS.' It provides an easy and flexible way to manage the installation of software on macOS and is incredibly popular within the developer community. We’re excited to announce the release of the official Elastic Homebrew tap.

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