# Following the steps in Quickstart guide does not work when deploying opensearch using docker-compose

**URL:** <https://forum.opensearch.org/t/following-the-steps-in-quickstart-guide-does-not-work-when-deploying-opensearch-using-docker-compose/16819>\
**Category:** General Feedback\
**Created:** [November 25, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/following-the-steps-in-quickstart-guide-does-not-work-when-deploying-opensearch-using-docker-compose/16819 "2023-11-25T13:51:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![pv5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f8ce5/32.png) [@pv5](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/pv5)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/following-the-steps-in-quickstart-guide-does-not-work-when-deploying-opensearch-using-docker-compose/16819/1 "2023-11-25T13:51:15Z")

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Hello,

I tried to follow the steps in quickstart guide [Quickstart - OpenSearch documentation](https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/quickstart/), but keep hitting the issue related to security.

```auto
curl https://localhost:9200 -ku admin:admin
{"error":{"status":"error","reason":"OpenSearch Security not initialized."}}

```

I don’t know what I am doing but, I tried to use the command given here: [OpenSearch Security not initialized](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/opensearch-security-not-initialized/7291)

```auto
./securityadmin.sh -cd ../securityconfig/ -icl -nhnv -cacert ../../../config/root-ca.pem -cert ../../../config/kirk.pem -key ../../../config/kirk-key.pem
**************************************************************************
 **This tool will be deprecated in the next major release of OpenSearch**
 **https://github.com/opensearch-project/security/issues/1755**
 **************************************************************************
Security Admin v7
Will connect to localhost:9200 ... done
Connected as "CN=kirk,OU=client,O=client,L=test,C=de"
OpenSearch Version: 2.11.0
Contacting opensearch cluster 'opensearch' and wait for YELLOW clusterstate ...
Cannot retrieve cluster state due to: 30,000 milliseconds timeout on connection http-outgoing-2 [ACTIVE]. This is not an error, will keep on trying ...
  Root cause: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: 30,000 milliseconds timeout on connection http-outgoing-2 [ACTIVE] (java.net.SocketTimeoutException/java.net.SocketTimeoutException)
   * Try running securityadmin.sh with -icl (but no -cl) and -nhnv (If that works you need to check your clustername as well as hostnames in your TLS certificates)
   * Make sure that your keystore or PEM certificate is a client certificate (not a node certificate) and configured properly in opensearch.yml
   * If this is not working, try running securityadmin.sh with --diagnose and see diagnose trace log file)
   * Add --accept-red-cluster to allow securityadmin to operate on a red cluster.

```

But that didn’t help.

I am using docker(24.0.7) in ubuntu (22.04.3 LTS).

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**Author:** ![pv5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f8ce5/32.png) [@pv5](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/pv5)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/following-the-steps-in-quickstart-guide-does-not-work-when-deploying-opensearch-using-docker-compose/16819/2 "2023-11-28T15:43:05Z")

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This worked: [Docker - OpenSearch documentation](https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/install-and-configure/install-opensearch/docker/#sample-docker-compose-file-for-development)