# Setting up multiple licenses on single edge gateway

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-up-multiple-licenses-on-single-edge-gateway/90017>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 7, 2024, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-up-multiple-licenses-on-single-edge-gateway/90017 "2024-05-07T12:18:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Josh\_Allen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/josh_allen/32/60694_2.png) [@Josh\_Allen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Josh_Allen)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-up-multiple-licenses-on-single-edge-gateway/90017/1 "2024-05-07T12:18:30Z")

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Good morning,  
I am looking for input on best practice for setting up multiple licenses on a single edge gateway. The end customer instead of buying a single Standard Ignition license decided to buy 13 individual edge licenses (1 per HMI) all to be pointed at a single gateway. I have been looking into building individual containers in Docker to achieve this and actively cloning my VM to experiment with. Are these viable options or is there a better way to go about this?

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 12:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-up-multiple-licenses-on-single-edge-gateway/90017/2 "2024-05-07T12:21:55Z")

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You should have them talk to their IA salesperson to get that fixed. Among other things, without a full Ignition install to which to connect, you won't be able to hold more than five weeks of data.

Edge is almost never suitable by itself.