# ES with xpack in Kube

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-with-xpack-in-kube/222083>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 4, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-with-xpack-in-kube/222083 "2020-03-04T13:14:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Balazs\_Varga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/balazs_varga/32/45740_2.png) [@Balazs\_Varga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Balazs_Varga)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-with-xpack-in-kube/222083/1 "2020-03-04T13:14:09Z")

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Hello all,

I am struggling with a strange issue.

When I would like to enable native auth on my cluster in Kube, see the following error.  
`"type": "server", "timestamp": "2020-03-04T13:10:11,337Z", "level": "ERROR", "component": o.e.x.s.a.e.NativeUsersStore", "cluster.name": "elasticsearch", "node.name": "elasticsearch-master1", "mess │ │ age": "security index is unavailable. short circuiting retrieval of user [user]", "cluster.uuid": "BEEDfVC8QCGfqwbUC8EjBw", "node.id": "5UEqoU8PRp6pMimvj2dljw" } `

info about cluster:

- Installed with kops
- Cluster version 15.10
- ES version: 7.6.0
- ES installed using official helm chart ([https://github.com/elastic/helm-charts/tree/master/elasticsearch](https://github.com/elastic/helm-charts/tree/master/elasticsearch))
- istio mtls forced in the cluster

Any advice ?  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-with-xpack-in-kube/222083/2 "2020-03-05T19:41:09Z")

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What does the output from `_cat/indices/` show?

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**Author:** ![Balazs\_Varga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/balazs_varga/32/45740_2.png) [@Balazs\_Varga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Balazs_Varga)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-with-xpack-in-kube/222083/3 "2020-03-11T14:21:49Z")

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I solved this issue with modifying elastic user and not trying to create a new user on start.

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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:** [April 8, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-with-xpack-in-kube/222083/4 "2020-04-08T14:25:11Z")

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Closed on April 8, 2020, 2:25pm UTC

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