# Deploy securely on RackSpace **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 4, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deploy-securely-on-rackspace/6063 "2011-12-04T20:29:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MarcusLongmuir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@MarcusLongmuir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MarcusLongmuir)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deploy-securely-on-rackspace/6063/1 "2011-12-04T20:29:06Z")
I'm looking into using RackSpace Cloud Servers for my application and I've set up a single node successfully, but without firewall rules and such the node is completely public and I assume that it won't be able to create a cluster because of discovery settings. Has anyone setup an ElasticSearch cluster on RackSpace successfully? ---
**Author:** ![Darron\_Froese](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/darron_froese/32/2984_2.png) [@Darron\_Froese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Darron_Froese)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deploy-securely-on-rackspace/6063/2 "2011-12-07T03:10:36Z")
I'm working on a setup right now that uses firewall rules to keep things pretty tight - once I get the last few kinks worked out I'll post it here. On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:29 PM, marcuslongmuir [marcuslongmuir@me.com](mailto:marcuslongmuir@me.com) wrote: > I'm looking into using RackSpace Cloud Servers for my application and > I've set up a single node successfully, but without firewall rules and > such the node is completely public and I assume that it won't be able > to create a cluster because of discovery settings. > > Has anyone setup an Elasticsearch cluster on RackSpace successfully? ---
**Author:** ![Darron\_Froese](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/darron_froese/32/2984_2.png) [@Darron\_Froese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Darron_Froese)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deploy-securely-on-rackspace/6063/3 "2011-12-14T01:06:11Z")
I got this running - it's been running now for a week now. There's really 2 things you need to do to secure it: 1. Firewall the box - make sure you don't have access to 9200 or 9300 from everywhere - just the IPs that need it. 2. If you have a Rackspace Cloud Load Balancer, you need to also limit access through that. For #1 - I did this in my chef recipe: [http://d.pr/8Fba](http://d.pr/8Fba) That allows each IP address in my data bag to have access to each other. For #2 - you need to use their interface that allows you to deny all, then add the IPs that are required to have access. Hopefully that helps - but it works great for us. If somebody would like the Chef recipe that builds my boxes - I'll sanitize and clean them up to post. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Darron Froese [darron@nonfiction.ca](mailto:darron@nonfiction.ca) wrote: > I'm working on a setup right now that uses firewall rules to keep > things pretty tight - once I get the last few kinks worked out I'll > post it here. > > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:29 PM, marcuslongmuir [marcuslongmuir@me.com](mailto:marcuslongmuir@me.com) wrote: > > > I'm looking into using RackSpace Cloud Servers for my application and > > I've set up a single node successfully, but without firewall rules and > > such the node is completely public and I assume that it won't be able > > to create a cluster because of discovery settings. > > > > Has anyone setup an Elasticsearch cluster on RackSpace successfully? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deploy-securely-on-rackspace/6063/4 "2017-07-06T03:45:26Z")