# Kubernetes: best practice to let kibana access elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kubernetes-best-practice-to-let-kibana-access-elasticsearch/186516
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 19, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kubernetes-best-practice-to-let-kibana-access-elasticsearch/186516 "2019-06-19T15:53:16Z")
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### Author:  [@asp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asp)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kubernetes-best-practice-to-let-kibana-access-elasticsearch/186516/1 "2019-06-19T15:53:17Z")
Hi,
I am currently trying to setup an elastic stack in kubernetes. With some issues I managed to bring up an elasticsearch 3 node cluster as statefulset.
What is best practice to let kibana loadbalance over the cluster? lets say I have 2 kibana instances and 3 ES nodes. All ES-nodes have the role master, ingest, data.
Is it best to let kibana access the (headless) service of ES so that kubernetes will loadbalance between the nodes? And to put a loadbalancer in front of kibana to loadbalance between these two instances?
I've read a kibana best practice in docs to give each kibana it's own coordinating only node which joins the cluster. Is this still necessary in kubernetes where we have services?
Thanks a lot,
Andreas
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### Author:  [@asp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asp)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2019, 10:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kubernetes-best-practice-to-let-kibana-access-elasticsearch/186516/2 "2019-07-09T10:04:32Z")
Hi, does anyone have an answer?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2019, 10:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kubernetes-best-practice-to-let-kibana-access-elasticsearch/186516/3 "2019-08-06T10:04:37Z")
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