# Self-Managed Elastic App Search Beta
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/self-managed-elastic-app-search-beta/167397
**Category:** Elastic Search
**Tags:** elastic-app-search
**Created:** [February 7, 2019, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/self-managed-elastic-app-search-beta/167397 "2019-02-07T08:42:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Ismail\_Mayat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ismail_Mayat)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2019, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/self-managed-elastic-app-search-beta/167397/1 "2019-02-07T08:42:42Z")
I have been having a play with app search beta and have something up and running. My question is for the elastic part of it any recommends on setup of elastic i.e no of clusters / shards etc?
Regards
Ismail
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### Author:  [@goodroot](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/goodroot)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/self-managed-elastic-app-search-beta/167397/2 "2019-02-07T18:26:07Z")
Hey Ismail!
Thanks for joining the community forums.
Configuration would depend very much on the scale at which you intend to operate. For a testing case, a small cluster will do just fine. In general, typical Elasticsearch sizing recommendations will help inform how to scale your cluster.
Perhaps start with a primary shard, no replicas, on hardware similar to that which you would use in production?
Thanks for trying App Search,
Kellen
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/self-managed-elastic-app-search-beta/167397/3 "2019-03-07T18:26:07Z")
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