# Cluster multiple providers

**URL:** <https://discuss.ray.io/t/cluster-multiple-providers/15921>\
**Category:** Ray Clusters\
**Created:** [September 30, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/cluster-multiple-providers/15921 "2024-09-30T15:32:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![HugoIJW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3e96dc/32.png) [@HugoIJW](https://discuss.ray.io/u/HugoIJW)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/cluster-multiple-providers/15921/1 "2024-09-30T15:32:21Z")

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**How severe does this issue affect your experience of using Ray?**

- Medium: It contributes to significant difficulty to complete my task, but I can work around it.

Hello there,  
I’m planning to create a ray cluster on VMs. Can I specify nodes from multiple cloud providers and on-premise servers in a single YAML cluster configuration file?  
Or, do I need to use Kubernetes?  
I really appreciate any help you can provide.

Hugo

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Chan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ray.io/sam_chan/32/5011_2.png) [@Sam\_Chan](https://discuss.ray.io/u/Sam_Chan)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 6:51am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/cluster-multiple-providers/15921/2 "2024-10-04T06:51:08Z")

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You can do this with KubeRay on K8s or you can look at Anyscale machine pools [Anyscale machine pools | Anyscale Docs](https://docs.anyscale.com/administration/cloud-deployment/machine-pools/)