# RAY\_ADDRESS is same as address args in ray.init(), but output differently?

**URL:** <https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-address-is-same-as-address-args-in-ray-init-but-output-differently/9118>\
**Category:** Ray Clusters\
**Created:** [January 27, 2023, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-address-is-same-as-address-args-in-ray-init-but-output-differently/9118 "2023-01-27T08:27:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-address-is-same-as-address-args-in-ray-init-but-output-differently/9118/1 "2023-01-27T08:27:35Z")

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

- Low: It annoys or frustrates me for a moment.

Hi there! so I have kubernetes cluster, and I deploy two pods:  
notebook-pods → one that deploy my notebook to cluster  
cluster-pods → using KubeRay operator, running the cluster [example](https://ray-project.github.io/kuberay/components/config/samples/ray-cluster.mini.yaml) in the website

_Some details_

- The only difference is that I’m not using `rayproject:ray` image, instead I’m using my own image (let’s call this image A) which already has all python dependencies, including ray[default, data, tune] that I need.
- in the notebook pods yaml file I already declared env variables `RAY_ADDRESS`=ray://..svc.cluster.local:10001’

_Objective_  
I open jupyter lab from notebook-pods, then I want to connect to ray cluster, and run the first few lines of data example [here](https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/data/getting-started.html#datasets-getting-started)  
With the following code in jupyter lab

```auto
import ray
ray.init(address=ray://<ray-cluster-name>.<mynamespace>.svc.cluster.local:10001')
ds = ray.data.range(10000)
ds.take(5)

```

It works just fine, but that kinda defeat the purpose of declaring the `RAY_ADDRESS` in the pod yaml file isn’t?

So I thought I don’t need to run `ray.init()` and just run `ds = ray.data.range(10000)`, but it breaks

```auto
2023-01-27 06:02:18,939	INFO worker.py:1230 -- Using address ray://<ray-cluster-name>.<mynamespace>.svc.cluster.local:10001 set in the environment variable RAY_ADDRESS
.
.
(truncated)
.
.
TypeError: 'str' object cannot be interpreted as an integer

```

why does it break? despite it seems like to be able to connect to remote ray cluster?