# Kibana docker image doesn't connect to elasticsearch image

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-docker-image-doesnt-connect-to-elasticsearch-image/79511
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 21, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-docker-image-doesnt-connect-to-elasticsearch-image/79511 "2017-03-21T21:44:25Z")
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### Author: ![Woodford](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/woodford/32/9540_2.png) [@Woodford](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Woodford)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-docker-image-doesnt-connect-to-elasticsearch-image/79511/3 "2017-03-23T02:37:33Z")

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Thanks for the helpful reply Marius!

I can try that, and since I plan to deploy on AWS it requires several steps that I would prefer to avoid.

For example, I would have to create the file, host it somewhere (github), then when I create the host that I'm going to run docker on, I'd have to copy it to the host.

I suppose I could eliminate the storage and create the file with a command when I create the EC2, but still this requires several steps I'd like to avoid.

I think it's reasonable that Elastic provide the command to run Kibana and connect to the Elasticsearch cluster that's running with the parameters they provided.

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