# Enable xpack on a running Elastic cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-xpack-on-a-running-elastic-cluster/284671>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [September 21, 2021, 4:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-xpack-on-a-running-elastic-cluster/284671 "2021-09-21T04:11:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![ls4074](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a9a28c/32.png) [@ls4074](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ls4074)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-xpack-on-a-running-elastic-cluster/284671/10 "2021-09-27T17:28:59Z")

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Hi Mark,

I post another topic which requires to solve first, then we can get back to this one.  
Could you please take a look at the following topic?

> [@Enable secure connection from Kibana to Elasticsearch](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-secure-connection-from-kibana-to-elasticsearch/285255):
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> I have xpack enabled on Elasticsearch (ES) on both http layer and transport layer. Now I am trying to enable the secure connection from Kibana to ES. I have added these in Kibana.yaml elasticsearchHosts: "[https://elasticsearch-master:9200](https://elasticsearch-master:9200)" Elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: /usr/share/kibana/config/certs/elastic-stack-ca.pem secretMounts: name: elastic-ca-pem secretName: elastic-ca-pem path: /usr/share/kibana/config/certs BTW, I created the secret elastic-ca-pem based on elastic-s…

Thanks!

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