The Searchlight project provides indexing and search capabilities across OpenStack resources. Its goal is to achieve high performance and flexible querying combined with near real-time indexing. It uses Elasticsearch, a real-time distributed indexing and search engine built on Apache Lucene, but adds OpenStack authentication and Role Based Access Control to provide appropriate protection of data.
Searchlight, as with all OpenStack projects, is written with the following design guidelines in mind:
This documentation is generated by the Sphinx toolkit using tox -e docs and lives in the source tree.
Additional documentation on Searchlight can be found on the OpenStack wiki.
The search service determines the type of information that is indexed and searchable via a plugin mechanism.
See each plugin below for detailed information about specific plugins: