# How to migrate from Opendistro to Opensearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Open Source Elasticsearch and Kibana\ **Tags:** upgrade\ **Created:** [April 14, 2022, 10:03am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-migrate-from-opendistro-to-opensearch/9238 "2022-04-14T10:03:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sanjoli84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@sanjoli84](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/sanjoli84)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 10:03am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-migrate-from-opendistro-to-opensearch/9238/1 "2022-04-14T10:03:37Z")
Hi, We are running Opendistro (1.13.3) on top of kubernetes. And want to migrate it to Opensearch. We didn’t find any clear instruction on how to do that. Can you please help? ---
**Author:** ![BlackMetalz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@BlackMetalz](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/BlackMetalz)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-migrate-from-opendistro-to-opensearch/9238/2 "2022-04-14T15:46:31Z")
I believe the best and safely way is reindex xD ---
**Author:** ![sanjoli84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@sanjoli84](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/sanjoli84)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-migrate-from-opendistro-to-opensearch/9238/3 "2022-04-14T23:42:04Z")
Hi, By reindex you mean create a new cluster and create new indexes? ---
**Author:** ![BlackMetalz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@BlackMetalz](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/BlackMetalz)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 4:08am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-migrate-from-opendistro-to-opensearch/9238/4 "2022-04-15T04:08:21Z")
Yes, more resource but safety 20 chars… ---
**Author:** ![dinesh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/dinesh/32/3283_2.png) [@dinesh](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/dinesh)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-migrate-from-opendistro-to-opensearch/9238/5 "2022-05-04T14:52:27Z")
@sanjoli84 not sure if you got a chance to look at this [page](https://opensearch.org/blog/technical-posts/2021/07/how-to-upgrade-from-opendistro-to-opensearch/). ---
**Author:** ![sanjoli84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@sanjoli84](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/sanjoli84)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-migrate-from-opendistro-to-opensearch/9238/6 "2022-05-06T07:26:06Z")
Hi Dinesh, Yes i read that article. Which option will be more safe to use. And our existing cluster is on kubernetes, does this solution will work with that?