# Copying dashboards to new Kibana instance

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/copying-dashboards-to-new-kibana-instance/75068>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 14, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/copying-dashboards-to-new-kibana-instance/75068 "2017-02-14T15:23:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![suranap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@suranap](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/suranap)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/copying-dashboards-to-new-kibana-instance/75068/1 "2017-02-14T15:23:16Z")

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We deploy a collection of microservices in kubernetes, including Kibana. We create many of these, all day long, every day.

How can I deploy Kibana with a set of custom dashboards that are ready to use when Kibana is started in kubernetes? I'm fairly new to Kibana and didn't find it in the docs.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/copying-dashboards-to-new-kibana-instance/75068/2 "2017-02-14T22:32:35Z")

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The searches, visualizations and dashboards are all persisted to the `.kibana` index in Elasticsearch. It's possible to seed the index with the data.

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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:** [March 14, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/copying-dashboards-to-new-kibana-instance/75068/3 "2017-03-14T22:32:52Z")

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