# Unable to set number\_of\_replicas with Puppet ES module
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-set-number-of-replicas-with-puppet-es-module/136274
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 18, 2018, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-set-number-of-replicas-with-puppet-es-module/136274 "2018-06-18T09:47:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Harvey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Harvey)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2018, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-set-number-of-replicas-with-puppet-es-module/136274/1 "2018-06-18T09:47:20Z")
I am trying to build a single-node Elasticsearch 6.3 cluster using the puppet-elasticsearch module.
In the past this worked fine when I declared:
```
elasticsearch::instance { 'es01':
config => {
'index.number_of_replicas' => 0,
...
},
}
```
This is apparently no longer valid for ES \>= 5.x
Accordingly I tried this:
```
elasticsearch::template { 'templatename':
source => 'puppet:///path/to/template.json',
}
```
And my template has:
```
{
"settings": {
"index": {
"number_of_replicas": 0
}
}
}
```
(Amongst other stuff.)
That still doesn't work, and my cluster comes up in yellow state, and I can fix it on the command line using:
`curl -XPUT 0.0.0.0:9200/_all/_settings -H'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"index.number_of_replicas":0}'`
If someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong it would be much appreciated.
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### Author:  [@tylerjl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylerjl)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2018, 10:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-set-number-of-replicas-with-puppet-es-module/136274/2 "2018-06-18T22:49:12Z")
I think you [may be missing `index_patterns` in your template to make it a valid index template](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-templates.html#indices-templates)?
An invalid index template _should_ bubble up from the Puppet catalog run to indicate an invalid `elasticsearch_template` resource as well; does the Puppet run return any errors when you try and apply the template resource?
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Harvey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Harvey)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2018, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-set-number-of-replicas-with-puppet-es-module/136274/3 "2018-06-21T11:47:39Z")
Yes, I was actually missing that field, among other problems. After fixing that, I then reverted to the latest default Logstash Elasticsearch 6.x output template, and then I had to fix some quoting, as I documented in this bug here: [https://github.com/elastic/puppet-elasticsearch/issues/957](https://github.com/elastic/puppet-elasticsearch/issues/957) This issue here could be closed.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2018, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-set-number-of-replicas-with-puppet-es-module/136274/4 "2018-07-19T11:47:43Z")
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