# Moving from regular elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://forum.opensearch.org/t/moving-from-regular-elasticsearch/578>\
**Category:** General Feedback\
**Created:** [April 30, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/moving-from-regular-elasticsearch/578 "2019-04-30T20:46:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![shubhojyoti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@shubhojyoti](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/shubhojyoti)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/moving-from-regular-elasticsearch/578/1 "2019-04-30T20:46:57Z")

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Is there any document planned for best way to migrate from regular elasticsearch?

Currently I manage an internal cluster (POC purposes) using the following:

1. Installation is directly done from the source. No prebuilt binary is used.
2. Search guard community version is used for security.

From the OpenDistro docs the only download option I see are the RPM, Debian or Docker version. We cannot use Docker as the POC cluster hosts are Redhat servers and being a POC we cannot use Docker EE. I could not find any way to download OpenDistro source as tar.gz like elasticsearch provides.

So I think the best way for me would be to use the standalone plugins. Is this correct?  
Also is there a way I can replace searchguard with the security plugin here as the discussion here states that it is based on the plugin. I only use the Community version so don’t need the enterprise licenses for the POC cluster.

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**Author:** ![carlmead](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/carlmead/32/38_2.png) [@carlmead](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/carlmead)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/moving-from-regular-elasticsearch/578/2 "2019-05-03T23:45:36Z")

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Can you use the zip files? [Standalone Elasticsearch Plugin Install - Open Distro Documentation](https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/install/plugins/)

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![shubhojyoti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@shubhojyoti](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/shubhojyoti)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2019, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/moving-from-regular-elasticsearch/578/3 "2019-05-04T22:23:53Z")

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Yes. I definitely can use the zip files.