# Installing on Kubernetes

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-on-kubernetes/49329
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** unsupported-install
**Created:** [August 27, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-on-kubernetes/49329 "2016-08-27T22:59:09Z")
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### Author: ![jzhu077](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/da6949/32.png) [@jzhu077](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jzhu077)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2018, 5:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-on-kubernetes/49329/18 "2018-03-01T05:00:54Z")

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I tried to follow the steps in the post above, but I hit this error when I ran `./launcher bootstrap web_only`

```plaintext
I, [2018-03-01T04:21:53.653880 #15] INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate'
Failed to report error: Error connecting to Redis on localhost:6379 (Errno::ECONNREFUSED) 2 Error connecting to Redis on localhost:6379 (Errno::ECONNREFUSED) subscribe failed, reconnecting in 1 second. Call stack ["/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/redis-3.3.5/lib/redis/client.rb:345:in `rescue in establish_connection'", "/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/redis-3.3.5/lib/redis/client.rb:331:in `establish_connection'", "/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/redis-3.3.5/lib/redis/client.rb:101:in `block in connect'", "/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/redis-3.3.5/lib/redis/client.rb:293:in `with_reconnect'", "/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/redis-3.3.5/lib/redis/client.rb:100:in `connect'", "/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/redis-3.3.5/lib/redis/client.rb:276:in `with_socket_timeout'", "/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/redis-3.3.5/lib/redis/client.rb:133:in `call_loop'", "/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/redis-3.3.5/lib/redis/subscribe.rb:43:in `subscription'", "/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/redis-3.3.5/lib/redis/subscribe.rb:12:in `subscribe'", "/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/redis-3.3.5/lib/redis.rb:2775:in `_subscription'", "/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/redis-3.3.5/lib/redis.rb:2143:in `block in subscribe'", "/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/redis-3.3.5/lib/redis.rb:58:in `block in synchronize'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.4.0/monitor.rb:214:in `mon_synchronize'", "/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/redis-3.3.5/lib/redis.rb:58:in `synchronize'", "/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/redis-3.3.5/lib/redis.rb:2142:in `subscribe'", "/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/message_bus-2.1.2/lib/message_bus/backends/redis.rb:336:in `global_subscribe'", "/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/message_bus-2.1.2/lib/message_bus.rb:525:in `global_subscribe_thread'", "/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/message_bus-2.1.2/lib/message_bus.rb:473:in `block in new_subscriber_thread'"] 
rake aborted!
PG::ConnectionBad: could not connect to server: Connection refused
	Is the server running on host "localhost" (127.0.0.1) and accepting
	TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
could not connect to server: Cannot assign requested address
	Is the server running on host "localhost" (::1) and accepting
	TCP/IP connections on port 5432?

```

web\_only.yaml env:

```plaintext
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
UNICORN_WORKERS: 2
DISCOURSE_DB_USERNAME: dev
DISCOURSE_DB_PASSWORD: discourse
DISCOURSE_DB_HOST: localhost
DISCOURSE_DB_NAME: discourse_development
DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS: 'foobar@gmail.com'
DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME: 'localhost'
DISCOURSE_REDIS_HOST: localhost

```

Did I miss some configuration? The redis and postgress are running locally and I have tested the connection manually.

```plaintext
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6379 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4086/redis-server *
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5432 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1763/postgres   

```

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