# Is it possible to load an ingest pipeline without using the HTTP API?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-load-an-ingest-pipeline-without-using-the-http-api/160345>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 11, 2018, 10:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-load-an-ingest-pipeline-without-using-the-http-api/160345 "2018-12-11T10:34:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnny90210](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johnny90210/32/20893_2.png) [@johnny90210](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johnny90210)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 10:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-load-an-ingest-pipeline-without-using-the-http-api/160345/1 "2018-12-11T10:34:55Z")

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I want to load an ingest pipeline into my Dockerized ES instance. I could do this using `curl` in the `CMD` directive but I'd rather just load it directly somehow, as I don't want to modify the container. Is there a way to do that?

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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:** [December 11, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-load-an-ingest-pipeline-without-using-the-http-api/160345/2 "2018-12-11T20:02:35Z")

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It is not possible.

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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:** [January 8, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-load-an-ingest-pipeline-without-using-the-http-api/160345/3 "2019-01-08T20:02:36Z")

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