Hi @rik Here you go
FIrst This is because you created a new ca.crt in the docker but are not using it in the curl command I repeated that. I got the same error.
So here is my fully working compose and .env
My local IP is 192.168.86.127
Compose Click to expand
services:
setup:
container_name: 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${KIBANA_PASSWORD} == x ]; then
echo "Set the KIBANA_PASSWORD environment variable in the .env file";
exit 1;
fi;
if [ ! -f config/certs/ca.zip ]; then
echo "Creating CA";
bin/elasticsearch-certutil ca --silent --pem -out config/certs/ca.zip;
unzip config/certs/ca.zip -d config/certs;
fi;
if [ ! -f config/certs/certs.zip ]; then
echo "Creating certs";
echo -ne \
"instances:\n"\
" - name: es01\n"\
" dns:\n"\
" - es01\n"\
" - localhost\n"\
" - orion\n"\
" ip:\n"\
" - 127.0.0.1\n"\
" - 192.168.86.127\n"\
> config/certs/instances.yml;
bin/elasticsearch-certutil cert --silent --pem -out config/certs/certs.zip --in config/certs/instances.yml --ca-cert config/certs/ca/ca.crt --ca-key config/certs/ca/ca.key;
unzip config/certs/certs.zip -d config/certs;
fi;
echo "Setting file permissions"
chown -R root:root config/certs;
find . -type d -exec chmod 750 \{\} \;;
find . -type f -exec chmod 640 \{\} \;;
echo "Waiting for Elasticsearch availability";
until curl -s --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt https://es01:9200 | grep -q "missing authentication credentials"; do sleep 30; done;
echo "Setting kibana_system password";
until curl -s -X POST --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt -u "elastic:${ELASTIC_PASSWORD}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://es01:9200/_security/user/kibana_system/_password -d "{\"password\":\"${KIBANA_PASSWORD}\"}" | grep -q "^{}"; do sleep 10; done;
echo "All done!";
'
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD-SHELL", "[ -f config/certs/es01/es01.crt ]"]
interval: 1s
timeout: 5s
retries: 120
es01:
container_name: es01
depends_on:
setup:
condition: service_healthy
image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:${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}
- discovery.type=single-node
- ELASTIC_PASSWORD=${ELASTIC_PASSWORD}
- bootstrap.memory_lock=true
- xpack.security.enabled=true
- xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled=true
- xpack.security.http.ssl.key=certs/es01/es01.key
- xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate=certs/es01/es01.crt
- xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled=true
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.key=certs/es01/es01.key
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate=certs/es01/es01.crt
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate_authorities=certs/ca/ca.crt
- xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification_mode=certificate
- xpack.license.self_generated.type=${LICENSE}
- xpack.ml.use_auto_machine_memory_percent=true
mem_limit: ${MEM_LIMIT}
ulimits:
memlock:
soft: -1
hard: -1
healthcheck:
test:
[
"CMD-SHELL",
"curl -s --cacert config/certs/ca/ca.crt https://localhost:9200 | grep -q 'missing authentication credentials'",
]
interval: 10s
timeout: 10s
retries: 120
kibana:
container_name: kibana
depends_on:
es01:
condition: service_healthy
image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:${STACK_VERSION}
volumes:
- certs:/usr/share/kibana/config/certs
- kibanadata:/usr/share/kibana/data
ports:
- ${KIBANA_PORT}:5601
environment:
- SERVERNAME=kibana
- ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS=https://es01:9200
- ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME=kibana_system
- ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD=${KIBANA_PASSWORD}
- ELASTICSEARCH_SSL_CERTIFICATEAUTHORITIES=config/certs/ca/ca.crt
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
kibanadata:
driver: local
.env Click to expand
# Password for the 'elastic' user (at least 6 characters)
ELASTIC_PASSWORD=mypassword
# Password for the 'kibana_system' user (at least 6 characters)
KIBANA_PASSWORD=mypassword
# Version of Elastic products
#STACK_VERSION=9.3.0
#STACK_VERSION=9.4.1
STACK_VERSION=9.5.4
# Set the cluster name
CLUSTER_NAME=docker-cluster
# Set to 'basic' or 'trial' to automatically start the 30-day trial
#LICENSE=basic
LICENSE=trial
# Port to expose Elasticsearch HTTP API to the host
ES_PORT=9200
# Port to expose Kibana to the host
KIBANA_PORT=5601
KB_ENCRYPTIONKEY=1234-5678-9012-3456-9999-8888-1111-0000
# Increase or decrease based on the available host memory (in bytes)
# 1GB
#MEM_LIMIT=1073741824
MEM_LIMIT=2173741824
# For discuss-single
ES_MEM_LIMIT=2173741824
KB_MEM_LIMIT=2173741824
# Project namespace (defaults to the current folder name if not set)
#COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=myproject
Curl Command with all the goodies.
I had to clean everything out deleted the volumes maually
I have found you have to really careful cleaning out the volumes and making sure after you create the new CAs certs they that you use the new CAs
A New CA is create so you need to make sure you use that with the curl / clients etc
curl -v --cacert ./ca.crt -u elastic:mypassword https://192.168.86.127:9200
* Trying 192.168.86.127:9200...
* Connected to 192.168.86.127 (192.168.86.127) port 9200
* ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* CAfile: ./ca.crt
* CApath: none
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Unknown (8):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / AEAD-AES256-GCM-SHA384 / [blank] / UNDEF
* ALPN: server did not agree on a protocol. Uses default.
* Server certificate:
* subject: CN=es01
* start date: Oct 25 20:57:18 2026 GMT
* expire date: Oct 24 20:57:18 2029 GMT
* subjectAltName: host "192.168.86.127" matched cert's IP address! <<< YAY!
* issuer: CN=Elastic Certificate Tool Autogenerated CA
* SSL certificate verify ok.
* using HTTP/1.x
* Server auth using Basic with user 'elastic'
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: 192.168.86.127:9200
> Authorization: Basic ZWxhc3RpYzpteXBhc3N3b3Jk
> User-Agent: curl/8.7.1
> Accept: */*
>
* Request completely sent off
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< X-elastic-product: Elasticsearch
< content-type: application/json
< content-length: 532
<
{
"name" : "es01",
"cluster_name" : "docker-cluster",
"cluster_uuid" : "pgF9kcGiRX6xKCFdXstwWQ",
"version" : {
"number" : "9.5.4",
"build_flavor" : "default",
"build_type" : "docker",
"build_hash" : "9170df19cae1adb107b7b489b4d82dec66d7a337",
"build_date" : "2026-09-09T22:42:53.976833287Z",
"build_snapshot" : false,
"lucene_version" : "10.5.1",
"minimum_wire_compatibility_version" : "8.19.0",
"minimum_index_compatibility_version" : "8.0.0"
},
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}
* Connection #0 to host 192.168.86.127 left intact
Hope this helps.
And no frustration at all. Just a process that works for me and
