# Communication between multiple instances of temporal server

**URL:** <https://community.temporal.io/t/communication-between-multiple-instances-of-temporal-server/228>\
**Category:** Community Support\
**Tags:** general-impl, best-practices\
**Created:** [July 20, 2020, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/communication-between-multiple-instances-of-temporal-server/228 "2020-07-20T13:29:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/communication-between-multiple-instances-of-temporal-server/228/10 "2020-07-20T19:38:22Z")

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The communication is required between all the services. And if you are running multiple roles in one container then multiple ports should be open.

Unfortunately such documentation doesn’t exist yet. We are working on it.

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