# Has anyone successfully stood up a multi-node elasticsearch cluster with kibana and logstash through docker images?

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**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [August 3, 2023, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-anyone-successfully-stood-up-a-multi-node-elasticsearch-cluster-with-kibana-and-logstash-through-docker-images/340082 "2023-08-03T21:30:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![jreyes25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@jreyes25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jreyes25)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-anyone-successfully-stood-up-a-multi-node-elasticsearch-cluster-with-kibana-and-logstash-through-docker-images/340082/1 "2023-08-03T21:30:52Z")

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I've been on this project for while now and I not sure where I'm going wrong.

My goal is to setup the ELK stack (elasticsearch, kibana, and logstash) on one host then a second elasticsearch node on a different host using docker images.

I'm able to setup the full ELK stack on the one host, but when I try to connect the secondary elasticsearch node to try to communicate with my primary node, it doesn't successfully communicate. I do have the default basic security features enabled.

I was reading how the certificates (transport.ssl, http.ssl) supposed to work, but I don't think I'm grasping it. Right now I'm using the default certificates my primary node was configured with (transport.p12 and http.p12). I cp'd those certs from my primary to secondary container and input the correct path in my yml file on my secondary node, but it said it's not trusted.

First, I would like to know if anyone was able to setup this environment successfully all through containers and what variables you used in you yml files or docker compose file?

I can post everything I did (and I will if no one has done this before), but it would be a 10 page essay on all the different configurations and security settings that I tried lol.

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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:** [August 31, 2023, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-anyone-successfully-stood-up-a-multi-node-elasticsearch-cluster-with-kibana-and-logstash-through-docker-images/340082/2 "2023-08-31T21:31:51Z")

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