# How does one setup a clustered elasticsearch?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-one-setup-a-clustered-elasticsearch/190017>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 11, 2019, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-one-setup-a-clustered-elasticsearch/190017 "2019-07-11T13:06:31Z")\
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Solved! for anyone who comes accross this, you have to match you pod name with the name in the cluster.initial\_master\_nodes:

I did this by setting a static name in the NODE\_NAME in my deployment file and then in the config, node.name: ${NODE\_NAME}

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