# Not able to create elasticsearch on Azure aks **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\ **Tags:** docker\ **Created:** [April 10, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-elasticsearch-on-azure-aks/302057 "2022-04-10T17:40:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Srinivas\_RK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/srinivas_rk/32/83303_2.png) [@Srinivas\_RK](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Srinivas_RK)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-elasticsearch-on-azure-aks/302057/1 "2022-04-10T17:40:09Z")
Im trying to create Elasticsearch on azure Kubernetes service (v 1.20.13) using eck version (1.8.0) here is my kubernetes deployment script ```auto apiVersion: elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/v1 kind: Elasticsearch metadata: name: banana-elastic-depl spec: version: 8.1.2 nodeSets: - name: master-nodes count: 1 config: node.roles: ["master"] podTemplate: spec: containers: - name: default env: #java run time memory allocation - name: ES_JAVA_OPTS value: -Xms2g -Xmx2g initContainers: #make pod ready for prod mode elastic run - name: sysctl securityContext: privileged: true command: ["sh", "-c", "sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144"] volumeClaimTemplates: #persistent stoarage - metadata: name: elasticsearch-data spec: accessModes: - ReadWriteOnce resources: requests: storage: 16Gi storageClassName: default - name: data-nodes count: 1 config: node.roles: ["data"] volumeClaimTemplates: #persistent stoarage - metadata: name: elasticsearch-data spec: accessModes: - ReadWriteOnce resources: requests: storage: 64Gi storageClassName: default podTemplate: spec: containers: - name: elasticsearch env: #java run time memory allocation - name: ES_JAVA_OPTS value: -Xms2g -Xmx2g resources: requests: memory: 12Gi cpu: 3 limits: memory: 16Gi cpu: 4 initContainers: #make pod ready for prod mode elastic run - name: sysctl securityContext: privileged: true command: ["sh", "-c", "sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144"] ``` this script is giving error while creating elastichsearch `{"@timestamp":"2022-04-10T17:06:27.441Z", "log.level": "INFO", "message":"JVM arguments [-Xshare:auto, -Des.networkaddress.cache.ttl=60, -Des.networkaddress.cache.negative.ttl=10, -Djava.security.manager=allow, -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch, -Xss1m, -Djava.awt.headless=true, -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8, -Djna.nosys=true, -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow, -XX:+ShowCodeDetailsInExceptionMessages, -Dio.netty.noUnsafe=true, -Dio.netty.noKeySetOptimization=true, -Dio.netty.recycler.maxCapacityPerThread=0, -Dio.netty.allocator.numDirectArenas=0, -Dlog4j.shutdownHookEnabled=false, -Dlog4j2.disable.jmx=true, -Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true, -Djava.locale.providers=SPI,COMPAT, --add-opens=java.base/java.io=ALL-UNNAMED, -XX:+UseG1GC, -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp/elasticsearch-16531016403921520044, -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError, -XX:+ExitOnOutOfMemoryError, -XX:HeapDumpPath=data, -XX:ErrorFile=logs/hs_err_pid%p.log, -Xlog:gc*,gc+age=trace,safepoint:file=logs/gc.log:utctime,pid,tags:filecount=32,filesize=64m, -Des.cgroups.hierarchy.override=/, -Xms2g, -Xmx2g, -XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=1073741824, -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=4m, -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=30, -XX:G1ReservePercent=15, -Des.path.home=/usr/share/elasticsearch, -Des.path.conf=/usr/share/elasticsearch/config, -Des.distribution.flavor=default, -Des.distribution.type=docker, -Des.bundled_jdk=true]", "ecs.version": "1.2.0","service.name":"ES_ECS","event.dataset":"elasticsearch.server","process.thread.name":"main","log.logger":"org.elasticsearch.node.Node","elasticsearch.node.name":"banana-elastic-depl-es-data-nodes-0","elasticsearch.cluster.name":"banana-elastic-depl"}` am i missing something? regards ---
**Author:** ![michael.morello](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michael.morello/32/47448_2.png) [@michael.morello](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michael.morello)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-elasticsearch-on-azure-aks/302057/2 "2022-04-11T06:32:29Z")
Hi, There is no error in your log. Since you are using Elasticsearch 8.0 and you want to manage `vm.max_map_count` using an init container could you also set `runAsUser: 0` in the `securityContext ` ? See a [full example in the documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-virtual-memory.html#k8s-virtual-memory). Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Srinivas\_RK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/srinivas_rk/32/83303_2.png) [@Srinivas\_RK](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Srinivas_RK)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-elasticsearch-on-azure-aks/302057/3 "2022-04-11T10:30:26Z")
Thank you michael adding this worked. also slightly modified my deployment yaml ```auto apiVersion: elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/v1 kind: Elasticsearch metadata: name: banana-elastic-depl spec: version: 8.1.2 nodeSets: - name: master-nodes count: 1 config: node.roles: ["master"] volumeClaimTemplates: #persistent stoarage - metadata: name: elasticsearch-data spec: accessModes: - ReadWriteOnce resources: requests: storage: 16Gi storageClassName: default - name: data-nodes count: 1 config: node.roles: ["data"] volumeClaimTemplates: #persistent stoarage - metadata: name: elasticsearch-data spec: accessModes: - ReadWriteOnce resources: requests: storage: 64Gi storageClassName: default podTemplate: spec: containers: - name: elasticsearch env: #java run time memory allocation - name: ES_JAVA_OPTS value: -Xms2g -Xmx2g resources: requests: memory: 12Gi cpu: 3 limits: memory: 16Gi cpu: 4 initContainers: #make pod ready for prod mode elastic run - name: sysctl securityContext: privileged: true runAsUser: 0 command: ["sh", "-c", "sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144"] ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-elasticsearch-on-azure-aks/302057/4 "2022-05-09T10:30:41Z")
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