# Migrating from Elasticsearch helmchart to ECK

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrating-from-elasticsearch-helmchart-to-eck/380757>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 5, 2025, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrating-from-elasticsearch-helmchart-to-eck/380757 "2025-08-05T12:04:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrating-from-elasticsearch-helmchart-to-eck/380757/1 "2025-08-05T12:04:32Z")

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Is there a documented migration plan to go from the now abandoned ES 8.5.1 helm charts at [GitHub - elastic/helm-charts: You know, for Kubernetes](https://github.com/elastic/helm-charts) to ECK Helm?

I have several clusters in production and I can not find any migration documentation other than updating individual versions, which is not appropriate if one is using the original helm charts.