Support Beats on Oracle Linux with UEK

[sherry-ger]

Describe the enhancement:

It appears both Filebeat and Metricbeat work on Oracle Linux with UEK. Please officially support Beats on Oracle Linux with UEK.

Describe a specific use case for the enhancement or feature:

The use case here is to support Beats on Oracle Linux with UEK.

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/integrations-services (Team:Services)

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[111andre111]

This is for sure supposed to be open.

[jlind23]

@111andre111 it should be solved by elastic/e2e-testing#2208 right?
Should be good in 8.2.
cc @nimarezainia

[111andre111]

@jlind23 Unfortunately this particular PR doesn't solve UEK of Oracle Linux as far as I understand.
By default on Oracle Linux you don't have UEK kernel.
UEK = Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
You install the kernel by:
yum install kernel-uek
and you would need to restart the VM after kernel has been installed in order to take effect.

[jlind23]

@111andre111 thanks for the update, @nimarezainia could you please take a look at this one and see how we should proceed?
cc @cmacknz @pierrehilbert

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[nimarezainia]

@111andre111 is there a specific customer request or this? We already support Oracle Linux. I want to avoid adding operating systems to the matrix. I would like to see them be an inhibitor for a few customers before we add a new operating system.

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