# Elastic operator : custom resource fo elastic cluster **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\ **Created:** [June 9, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-operator-custom-resource-fo-elastic-cluster/236418 "2020-06-09T21:34:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brijrajsinh\_Jhala](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brijrajsinh_jhala/32/46604_2.png) [@Brijrajsinh\_Jhala](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brijrajsinh_Jhala)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-operator-custom-resource-fo-elastic-cluster/236418/1 "2020-06-09T21:34:27Z")
Hello, Greetings ! I have looked the custom resource of elastic search instance creation using operator CRD however I dont see any discovery type defined. I just saw no of nodes count to configure. so in order to defined elastic cluster we dont need to defined discovery type in CR ? thanks for your help Best Regards, Brij ---
**Author:** ![sebgl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sebgl/32/48702_2.png) [@sebgl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sebgl)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 7:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-operator-custom-resource-fo-elastic-cluster/236418/2 "2020-06-10T07:37:50Z")
I'm not sure I get what you mean with "discovery type". Please look at the [quickstart doc](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-deploy-elasticsearch.html) (and the other docs) for more details on deploying an Elasticsearch cluster. ---
**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, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-operator-custom-resource-fo-elastic-cluster/236418/3 "2022-11-04T08:01:50Z")