# How to build Kibana from source with Plugins

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-build-kibana-from-source-with-plugins/163012>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 4, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-build-kibana-from-source-with-plugins/163012 "2019-01-04T21:49:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![danielkerwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@danielkerwin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielkerwin)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-build-kibana-from-source-with-plugins/163012/1 "2019-01-04T21:49:00Z")

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Hello,

I am building Kibana from source, and also have several plugins in my kibana-extra folder.

I'd like to understand what the best practice is for preparing my Kibana distribution including all of the plugins from my extra folder.

Do I need to build each plugin one-by-one, then copy them to the plugins folder before/after the Kibana source build?

Is there a better way?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-build-kibana-from-source-with-plugins/163012/2 "2019-01-07T10:23:19Z")

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Best practice would be to build each plugin separately, build Kibana, deploy Kibana and then use the Kibana-plugin installer from the /bin folder.

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**Author:** ![danielkerwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@danielkerwin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielkerwin)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-build-kibana-from-source-with-plugins/163012/3 "2019-01-07T11:55:54Z")

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Thanks Marius - this is perfect.

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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:** [February 4, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-build-kibana-from-source-with-plugins/163012/4 "2019-02-04T11:56:01Z")

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