# How to grant access to Kibana for specific users?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-grant-access-to-kibana-for-specific-users/69059>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 14, 2016, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-grant-access-to-kibana-for-specific-users/69059 "2016-12-14T17:32:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-grant-access-to-kibana-for-specific-users/69059/8 "2016-12-19T09:55:22Z")

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Right - user accounts that share a set of dashboards and visualizations can share a Kibana instance. I would absolutely recommend setting up automation for all services in your infrastructure. A simple way to do this would be to start multiple containers using the official [Docker image](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/_configuring_kibana_on_docker.html) and to set different `KIBANA_INDEX` and `SERVER_NAME` environment variables for each. If you require more customization of the individual instances than can be achieved through setting environment variables, you can just bind-mount different auto-generated `kibana.yml` files into the containers.

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