# Can bitwarden\_rs tolerate being clustered? **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [March 11, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/can-bitwarden-rs-tolerate-being-clustered/713 "2021-03-11T20:41:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![nneul](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/vaultwarden.discourse.group/nneul/32/254_2.png) [@nneul](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/u/nneul)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/can-bitwarden-rs-tolerate-being-clustered/713/2 "2021-03-11T20:54:44Z")
Found this, so looks like that answers my question: > [@Is the bitwarden rs service stateless if its using postgres backend?](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/is-the-bitwarden-rs-service-stateless-if-its-using-postgres-backend/450): > > I’m deploying on Kubernetes. I was hoping to deploy the Bitwarden server in a deployment with 3 replicas and then have a single stateful state postgres instance with an open ebs volume. Do bitwarden rs instance have any state to worry about if the postgres db is not colocated? One reason I ask is because the docs point at this setup as an example: [https://github.com/icicimov/kubernetes-bitwarden\_rs/blob/7b6c0d49f9c5f5c6b7fce31a2a97bca9df8d0d25/statefulset.yml#L2-L3](https://github.com/icicimov/kubernetes-bitwarden_rs/blob/7b6c0d49f9c5f5c6b7fce31a2a97bca9df8d0d25/statefulset.yml#L2-L3) p.s … Just setting the postg… --- _[View the full topic](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/can-bitwarden-rs-tolerate-being-clustered/713)._