# Kibana on https with docker-compose

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-on-https-with-docker-compose/316069>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security, docker\
**Created:** [October 7, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-on-https-with-docker-compose/316069 "2022-10-07T12:29:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![mammodde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@mammodde](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mammodde)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-on-https-with-docker-compose/316069/1 "2022-10-07T12:29:56Z")

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Hi everyone,  
I'd like to put kibana web page on https instead of http.  
I did set everything came to my mind in order to do so, and this is my docker-compose.yml file.  
the problems I encountered are:

- elasticsearch is on https and kibana is not
- inside config/certs/instances.yml I don't have the instance of kibana and I don't know why because it is written on the docker-compose file.
- I don't even have any kibana folder in /config/certs with kibana.ca and kibana.key within it, while I have for es01, 02 and 03  
something makes me think that xpack is not set right in kibana environment on the docker-compose.yml

Do you have any idea on what causes this? do you know how to put kibana on https?

```auto
version: "2.2"

services:
  setup:
    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:${STACK_VERSION}
    volumes:
      - certs:/usr/share/elasticsearch/config/certs
    user: "0"
    command: >
      bash -c '
        if [x${ELASTIC_PASSWORD} == x]; then
          echo "Set the ELASTIC_PASSWORD environment variable in the .env file";
          exit 1;
        elif [x${KIBANA_PASSWORD} == x]; then
          echo "Set the KIBANA_PASSWORD environment variable in the .env file";
          exit 1;
        fi;
        if [! -f config/certs/ca.zip]; then
          echo "Creating CA";
          bin/elasticsearch-certutil ca --silent --pem -out config/certs/ca.zip;
          unzip config/certs/ca.zip -d config/certs;
        fi;
        if [! -f config/certs/certs.zip]; then
          echo "Creating certs";
          echo -ne \
          "instances:\n"\
          " - name: es01\n"\
          " dns:\n"\
          " - es01\n"\
          " - localhost\n"\
          " ip:\n"\
          " - 127.0.0.1\n"\
          " - name: es02\n"\
          " dns:\n"\
          " - es02\n"\
          " - localhost\n"\
          " ip:\n"\
          " - 127.0.0.1\n"\
          " - name: es03\n"\
          " dns:\n"\
          " - es03\n"\
          " - localhost\n"\
          " ip:\n"\
          " - 127.0.0.1\n"\
          " - name: kibana\n"\
          " dns:\n"\
          " - kibana\n"\
          " - localhost\n"\
          " ip:\n"\
          " - 127.0.0.1\n"\
          > config/certs/instances.yml;
          bin/elasticsearch-certutil cert --silent --pem -out config/certs/certs.zip --in config/certs/instances.yml --ca-cert config/certs/ca/ca.crt --ca-key config/certs/ca/ca.key;
          unzip config/certs/certs.zip -d config/certs;
        fi;
        echo "Setting file permissions"
        chown -R root:root config/certs;
        find . -type d -exec chmod 750 \{\} \;;
        find . -type f -exec chmod 640 \{\} \;;
        echo "Waiting for Elasticsearch availability";
        until curl -s --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt https://es01:9200 | grep -q "missing authentication credentials"; do sleep 30; done;
        echo "Setting ----- password";
        until curl -s -X POST --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt -u -----:${ELASTIC_PASSWORD} -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://es01:9200/_security/user/------/_password -d "{\"password\":\"${KIBANA_PASSWORD}\"}" | grep -q "^{}"; do sleep 10; done;
        echo "All done!";
      '
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "[-f config/certs/es01/es01.crt]"]
      interval: 1s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 120

  es01:
    depends_on:
      setup:
        condition: service_healthy
    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:${STACK_VERSION}
    volumes:
      - certs:/usr/share/elasticsearch/config/certs
      - esdata01:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
    ports:
      - ${ES_PORT}:9200
    environment:
      - node.name=es01
      - cluster.name=${CLUSTER_NAME}
      - cluster.initial_master_nodes=es01,es02,es03
      - discovery.seed_hosts=es02,es03
      - ELASTIC_PASSWORD=${ELASTIC_PASSWORD}
      - bootstrap.memory_lock=true
      - xpack.security.enabled=true
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled=true
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.key=certs/es01/es01.key
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate=certs/es01/es01.crt
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.verification_mode=certificate
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled=true
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.key=certs/es01/es01.key
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate=certs/es01/es01.crt
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification_mode=certificate
      - xpack.license.self_generated.type=${LICENSE}
    mem_limit: ${MEM_LIMIT}
    ulimits:
      memlock:
        soft: -1
        hard: -1
    healthcheck:
      test:
        [
          "CMD-SHELL",
          "curl -s --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt https://localhost:9200 | grep -q 'missing authentication credentials'",
        ]
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 120

  es02:
    depends_on:
      - es01
    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:${STACK_VERSION}
    volumes:
      - certs:/usr/share/elasticsearch/config/certs
      - esdata02:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
    environment:
      - node.name=es02
      - cluster.name=${CLUSTER_NAME}
      - cluster.initial_master_nodes=es01,es02,es03
      - discovery.seed_hosts=es01,es03
      - bootstrap.memory_lock=true
      - xpack.security.enabled=true
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled=true
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.key=certs/es02/es02.key
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate=certs/es02/es02.crt
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.verification_mode=certificate
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled=true
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.key=certs/es02/es02.key
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate=certs/es02/es02.crt
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification_mode=certificate
      - xpack.license.self_generated.type=${LICENSE}
    mem_limit: ${MEM_LIMIT}
    ulimits:
      memlock:
        soft: -1
        hard: -1
    healthcheck:
      test:
        [
          "CMD-SHELL",
          "curl -s --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt https://localhost:9200 | grep -q 'missing authentication credentials'",
        ]
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 120

  es03:
    depends_on:
      - es02
    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:${STACK_VERSION}
    volumes:
      - certs:/usr/share/elasticsearch/config/certs
      - esdata03:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
    environment:
      - node.name=es03
      - cluster.name=${CLUSTER_NAME}
      - cluster.initial_master_nodes=es01,es02,es03
      - discovery.seed_hosts=es01,es02
      - bootstrap.memory_lock=true
      - xpack.security.enabled=true
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled=true
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.key=certs/es03/es03.key
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate=certs/es03/es03.crt
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.verification_mode=certificate
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled=true
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.key=certs/es03/es03.key
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate=certs/es03/es03.crt
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification_mode=certificate
      - xpack.license.self_generated.type=${LICENSE}
    mem_limit: ${MEM_LIMIT}
    ulimits:
      memlock:
        soft: -1
        hard: -1
    healthcheck:
      test:
        [
          "CMD-SHELL",
          "curl -s --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt https://localhost:9200 | grep -q 'missing authentication credentials'",
        ]
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 120

  logstash:
    depends_on:
      es01:
        condition: service_healthy
    image: docker.elastic.co/logstash/logstash:${STACK_VERSION}
    volumes:
      - /home/admin/elk/logstash/conf.d/logstash.conf:/usr/share/logstash/pipeline/logstash.conf:ro
      - /home/admin/elk/logstash/:/usr/share/logstash/config
    ports:
      - "5044:5044/tcp"
    environment:
      - SERVERNAME=logstash
      - ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS=https://es01:9200
      - ELASTICSEARCH_SSL_CERTIFICATEAUTHORITIES=config/certs/ca/ca.crt

  kibana:
    depends_on:
      es01:
        condition: service_healthy
      es02:
        condition: service_healthy
      es03:
        condition: service_healthy
    image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:${STACK_VERSION}
    volumes:
      - certs:/usr/share/kibana/config/certs
      - kibanadata:/usr/share/kibana/data
    ports:
      - ${KIBANA_PORT}:5601
    environment:
      - SERVERNAME=kibana
      - ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS=https://es01:9200
      - ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME=------
      - ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD=${KIBANA_PASSWORD}
      - ELASTICSEARCH_SSL_CERTIFICATEAUTHORITIES=config/certs/ca/ca.crt
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled=true
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.verification_mode=certificate
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled=true
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.key=certs/kibana/kibana.key
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate=certs/kibana/kibana.crt
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification_mode=certificate
      - xpack.license.self_generated.type=${LICENSE}
    mem_limit: ${MEM_LIMIT}
    healthcheck:
      test:
        [
          "CMD-SHELL",
          "curl -s -I http://localhost:5601 | grep -q 'HTTP/1.1 302 Found'",
        ]
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 120

volumes:
  certs:
    driver: local
  esdata01:
    driver: local
  esdata02:
    driver: local
  esdata03:
    driver: local
  kibanadata:
    driver: local

```

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**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-on-https-with-docker-compose/316069/2 "2022-10-07T16:19:36Z")

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@Marius_Dragomir can you please take a look at this? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![mammodde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@mammodde](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mammodde)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 7:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-on-https-with-docker-compose/316069/3 "2022-10-11T07:26:16Z")

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no one else knows how to help?  
it seems that it does not create any certificate for kibanam even if I put kibana in the bash command on the docker-compose

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**Author:** ![mammodde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@mammodde](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mammodde)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 7:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-on-https-with-docker-compose/316069/4 "2022-10-19T07:40:15Z")

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Hi, do you know somebody else? 😅

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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:** [November 3, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-on-https-with-docker-compose/316069/5 "2022-11-03T15:12:42Z")

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I recommend following this guide: [Set up basic security for the Elastic Stack plus secured HTTPS traffic | Elasticsearch Guide [8.5] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-basic-setup-https.html)

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**Post date:** [December 1, 2022, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-on-https-with-docker-compose/316069/6 "2022-12-01T11:30:04Z")

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**Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-on-https-with-docker-compose/316069/7 "2022-12-29T08:29:42Z")

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**Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-on-https-with-docker-compose/316069/8 "2023-01-26T08:30:12Z")

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