---
title: ECE API examples: Enable more stack features and add Enterprise Search to a deployment
description: The RESTful API is also useful for adding Elastic Stack features to existing deployments. In this example, we’ll show you how to create a new Enterprise...
url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/cloud/cloud-enterprise/ece-restful-api-examples-add-enterprise-search
products:
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise
applies_to:
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise: Generally available
---
# ECE API examples: Enable more stack features and add Enterprise Search to a deployment
Enterprise Search is not available in Elastic Stack 9.0+.
The RESTful API is also useful for adding Elastic Stack features to existing deployments. In this example, we’ll show you how to create a new Enterprise Search instance and associate it with an existing Elasticsearch resource that is part of a deployment. We’ll use `My First Deployment` that you created in [Create a First Deployment: Elasticsearch and Kibana](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/cloud/cloud-enterprise/ece-restful-api-examples-create-deployment).
## Before you begin
This example requires a deployment with an Elasticsearch cluster to work with that is not being used for anything important. If you don’t already have one, you can follow [our `My First Deployment` example](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/cloud/cloud-enterprise/ece-restful-api-examples-create-deployment) to create one.
## Steps
To add Enterprise Search to an existing deployment:
1. Make a PUT request to the deployment that includes this resource.
There are different options you can specify, but the most important one is that you need to include the `ref_id` of the Elasticsearch resource that Enterprise Search will be associated with, by using the field `elasticsearch_cluster_ref_id`.
```sh
curl -k -X PUT -H "Authorization: ApiKey $ECE_API_KEY" https://$COORDINATOR_HOST:12443/api/v1/deployments/$DEPLOYMENT_ID -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '
{
"name": "My First Deployment",
"prune_orphans": false,
"metadata": {
"system_owned": false,
"hidden": false
},
"resources": {
"elasticsearch": [
{
"region": "ece-region",
"ref_id": "main-elasticsearch",
"plan": {
"cluster_topology": [
{
"id": "hot_content",
"node_roles": [
"data_hot",
"data_content",
"master",
"ingest",
"remote_cluster_client",
"transform"
],
"zone_count": 3,
"elasticsearch": {
"enabled_built_in_plugins": [],
"node_attributes": {
"data": "hot"
}
},
"instance_configuration_id": "data.default",
"size": {
"value": 4096,
"resource": "memory"
}
},
{
"id": "warm",
"node_roles": [
"data_warm",
"remote_cluster_client"
],
"zone_count": 1,
"elasticsearch": {
"enabled_built_in_plugins": [],
"node_attributes": {
"data": "warm"
}
},
"instance_configuration_id": "data.highstorage",
"size": {
"value": 0,
"resource": "memory"
}
},
{
"id": "cold",
"node_roles": [
"data_cold",
"remote_cluster_client"
],
"zone_count": 1,
"elasticsearch": {
"enabled_built_in_plugins": [],
"node_attributes": {
"data": "cold"
}
},
"instance_configuration_id": "data.highstorage",
"size": {
"value": 0,
"resource": "memory"
}
},
{
"id": "frozen",
"node_roles": [
"data_frozen"
],
"zone_count": 1,
"elasticsearch": {
"enabled_built_in_plugins": [],
"node_attributes": {
"data": "frozen"
}
},
"instance_configuration_id": "data.frozen",
"size": {
"value": 0,
"resource": "memory"
}
},
{
"id": "coordinating",
"node_roles": [
"ingest",
"remote_cluster_client"
],
"zone_count": 1,
"elasticsearch": {
"enabled_built_in_plugins": []
},
"instance_configuration_id": "coordinating",
"size": {
"value": 0,
"resource": "memory"
}
},
{
"id": "master",
"node_roles": [
"master",
"remote_cluster_client"
],
"zone_count": 1,
"elasticsearch": {
"enabled_built_in_plugins": []
},
"instance_configuration_id": "master",
"size": {
"value": 0,
"resource": "memory"
}
},
{
"id": "ml",
"node_roles": [
"ml",
"remote_cluster_client"
],
"zone_count": 1,
"elasticsearch": {
"enabled_built_in_plugins": []
},
"instance_configuration_id": "ml",
"size": {
"value": 0,
"resource": "memory"
}
}
],
"elasticsearch": {
"version": "8.13.2"
},
"deployment_template": {
"id": "default"
},
"autoscaling_enabled": false
}
}
],
"enterprise_search": [
{
"region": "ece-region",
"ref_id": "main-enterprise_search",
"elasticsearch_cluster_ref_id": "main-elasticsearch",
"plan": {
"cluster_topology": [
{
"node_type": {
"appserver": true,
"worker": true,
"connector": true
},
"instance_configuration_id": "enterprise.search",
"size": {
"value": 4096,
"resource": "memory"
},
"zone_count": 1
}
],
"enterprise_search": {},
"transient": {
"strategy": {
"autodetect": {}
}
}
}
}
]
}
}
'
```
The deployment ID for `My First Deployment`
After the configuration change is complete, your deployment now includes Enterprise Search. If you switch back to the Cloud UI, you can open Enterprise Search to test that it works as expected.
