# Customizing roles.yml

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customizing-roles-yml/191882>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\
**Created:** [July 23, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customizing-roles-yml/191882 "2019-07-23T17:47:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![LaurentGoderre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/laurentgoderre/32/48839_2.png) [@LaurentGoderre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LaurentGoderre)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customizing-roles-yml/191882/1 "2019-07-23T17:47:06Z")

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I an following the docs here to add a custom roles to Elasticsearch (via the roles.yml) but whatever I try doesn't get applied.

> <https://github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/blob/f47a4259eed761f3bb93c9a5bc624a49d8c428f2/docs/elasticsearch-spec.asciidoc#custom-configuration-files-and-plugins>

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**Author:** ![Artem\_Nikitin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/artem_nikitin/32/42859_2.png) [@Artem\_Nikitin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Artem_Nikitin)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customizing-roles-yml/191882/2 "2019-07-23T18:26:30Z")

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Which ECK version are you using? Most probably, you are using 0.8.0 or 0.8.1 and this doc mostly for 0.9.0 which should be released soon.

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**Author:** ![LaurentGoderre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/laurentgoderre/32/48839_2.png) [@LaurentGoderre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LaurentGoderre)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customizing-roles-yml/191882/3 "2019-07-23T18:51:44Z")

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AAh yea! Thanks!!

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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:** [November 4, 2022, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customizing-roles-yml/191882/4 "2022-11-04T07:18:07Z")

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