# Master not discovered or elected yet, an election requires 2 nodes with ids

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/master-not-discovered-or-elected-yet-an-election-requires-2-nodes-with-ids/271435>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security, docker\
**Created:** [April 27, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/master-not-discovered-or-elected-yet-an-election-requires-2-nodes-with-ids/271435 "2021-04-27T19:38:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![spartin07](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spartin07/32/87073_2.png) [@spartin07](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spartin07)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/master-not-discovered-or-elected-yet-an-election-requires-2-nodes-with-ids/271435/1 "2021-04-27T19:38:03Z")

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I am trying to enable SSL/TLS for my elasticsearch cluster using docker and docker-compose. My setup is 3 seperate machines all with a single elasticsearch node running on them. For the certificates I created them on a single volume and copied that volume to all 3 machines. I used [Encrypting communications in an Elasticsearch Docker Container | Elasticsearch Guide [7.12] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.12/configuring-tls-docker.html) as a guide of the settings to enable for SSL/TLS.

When running docker-compose my nodes are unable to discover each other and am receiving the following error:

```auto
es01 | {"type": "server", "timestamp": "2021-04-27T18:46:31,221Z", "level": "WARN", "component": "o.e.c.c.ClusterFormationFailureHelper", "cluster.name": "docker-cluster", "node.name": "es01", "message": "master not discovered or elected yet, an election requires 2 nodes with ids [N6koZEyeR0-VketSDFUOEA, vLwJcl13TSyTXlX2CN4QHQ], have discovered [{es01}{vLwJcl13TSyTXlX2CN4QHQ}{GDvFih09QrC2OkZ6NA0P9g}{172.24.5.171}{172.24.5.171:9300}{cdfhilmrstw} ml.machine_memory=4143259648, xpack.installed=true, transform.node=true, ml.max_open_jobs=20, ml.max_jvm_size=536870912}] which is not a quorum discovery will continue using [172.24.5.172:9300, 172.24.5.188:9300] from hosts providers and [{es01}{vLwJcl13TSyTXlX2CN4QHQ}{GDvFih09QrC2OkZ6NA0P9g}{172.24.5.171}{172.24.5.171:9300}{cdfhilmrstw}{ml.machine_memory=4143259648, xpack.installed=true, transform.node=true, ml.max_open_jobs=20, ml.max_jvm_size=536870912}] from last-known cluster state; node term 117, last-accepted version 0 in term 0" }

```

My .yml files look like this (names and ips are changed to match the correct machine and have matching environmental variables):

```auto
version: '2.2'

services:
  es03:
    container_name: es03
    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.12.0
    environment:
      - node.name=es03
      - cluster.initial_master_nodes=172.24.5.171,172.24.5.172,172.24.5.188
      - discovery.seed_hosts=172.24.5.188,172.24.5.172
      - network.publish_host=172.24.5.171
      - ELASTIC_PASSWORD=$ELASTIC_PASSWORD 
      - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m"
      - xpack.license.self_generated.type=trial 
      - xpack.security.enabled=true
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled=true
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.key=$CERTS_DIR/es03/es03.key
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate_authorities=$CERTS_DIR/ca/ca.crt
      - xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate=$CERTS_DIR/es03/es03.crt
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled=true
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification_mode=certificate 
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate_authorities=$CERTS_DIR/ca/ca.crt
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate=$CERTS_DIR/es03/es03.crt
      - xpack.security.transport.ssl.key=$CERTS_DIR/es03/es03.key
    volumes: ['data03:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data', 'certs:$CERTS_DIR']
    ports:
      - 9200:9200
    healthcheck:
      test: curl --cacert $CERTS_DIR/ca/ca.crt -s https://localhost:9200 >/dev/null; if [[$$? == 52]]; then echo 0; else echo 1; fi
      interval: 30s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 5

volumes: {"data03", "certs"}

```

Before adding security my nodes were clustering properly with only the first 4 yml environment options. Ports 9200 and 9300 are open and can be pinged from all machines.

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**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 1:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/master-not-discovered-or-elected-yet-an-election-requires-2-nodes-with-ids/271435/2 "2021-04-28T01:22:48Z")

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> [@spartin07](#):
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> When running docker-compose my nodes are unable to discover each other and am receiving the following error:

There should be another more detailed error before that.

The error message you're quoting just shows that the nodes didn't connect to each other, and haven't formed a cluster. There should be an error message from when they actually tried to connect that gives some indication of why it failed.

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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:** [May 26, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/master-not-discovered-or-elected-yet-an-election-requires-2-nodes-with-ids/271435/3 "2021-05-26T01:23:14Z")

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