# Configuring SSL/TLS for elasticsearch cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-ssl-tls-for-elasticsearch-cluster/270638>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security, docker\
**Created:** [April 19, 2021, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-ssl-tls-for-elasticsearch-cluster/270638 "2021-04-19T23:27:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![spartin07](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spartin07/32/87073_2.png) [@spartin07](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spartin07)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-ssl-tls-for-elasticsearch-cluster/270638/1 "2021-04-19T23:27:11Z")

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I'm trying to enable elastic search security for my es cluster and am following this page [Encrypting communications in an Elasticsearch Docker Container | Elasticsearch Guide [7.12] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/configuring-tls-docker.html)  
However, unlike in the example my cluster has 3 nodes all on separate hosts. As such they won't have access to the volume that the certifications are created on as seen here.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/2/e210b15bcffeb93a225e8de20b526c847bef7753.png)  
are there any material that covers configuring encrypted communication with seperate

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-ssl-tls-for-elasticsearch-cluster/270638/2 "2021-04-19T23:30:45Z")

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Ohh just re-read docker... Hmm need to think.

@spartin07 welcome to the community.

[This](https://kupczynski.info/2017/04/02/elasticsearch-fun-with-tls.html) looks like a how to.

Looks like you will need to generate the certs and then put copies on volumes that each node can access

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 11:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-ssl-tls-for-elasticsearch-cluster/270638/3 "2021-05-17T23:31:03Z")

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