Encapsulate access to Inference APIs about kibana HOT 2 OPEN

just one question around if we're planning to bundle the 'setup ELSER inference endpoint' responsibility to this inference service as well, or if that will live elsewhere

That is TBD. We still haven't agreed to grant manage_inference to the kibana_system user, so the details of how we accomplish these goals need to be worked out yet.

As an FYI, we also have this new inference plugin proposal in-flight for abstracting inference tasks (#188280). Not saying there's overlap or that they should be combined or anything like that, just mentioning for visibility around all things inference over on the Kibana server side of things.

Thanks for sharing, that is great to know!

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This general approach sounds good to me -- just one question around if we're planning to bundle the 'setup ELSER inference endpoint' responsibility to this inference service as well, or if that will live elsewhere? If so, the manage_inference privilege will be required for creating the new inference endpoint. I suppose manage_inference is needed for the inference connector efforts as well (to create new endpoints), but will let @YulNaumenko speak to that.

As an FYI, we also have this new inference plugin proposal in-flight for abstracting inference tasks (#188280). Not saying there's overlap or that they should be combined or anything like that, just mentioning for visibility around all things inference over on the Kibana server side of things.

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