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Welcome to Searchlight's documentation!
=======================================

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 <http://http://www.elasticsearch.org/>`_, 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:

* **Microservice based architecture**: Quickly add new behaviors
* **Highly available**: Scale to very serious workloads
* **Fault tolerant**: Isolated processes avoid cascading failures
* **Recoverable**: Failures should be easy to diagnose, debug, and rectify
* **Open standards**: Be a reference implementation for a community-driven api

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`_.

.. _`OpenStack wiki`: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Searchlight

Contributing
------------

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   feature-requests-bugs
   authoring-plugins

Overview
--------

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   architecture
   searchlightapi
   indexingservice
   authentication

Client and UI
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

* `Horizon UI Plugin`_
* `OpenStack Client Plugin`_

.. _`Horizon UI Plugin`: https://github.com/openstack/searchlight-ui
.. _`OpenStack Client Plugin`: https://github.com/openstack/python-searchlightclient

Search plugins
--------------

The search service determines the type of information that is indexed and
searchable via a plugin mechanism.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   plugins
   authoring-plugins

See each plugin below for detailed information about specific plugins:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   :glob:

   plugins/*

Installation and Setup
----------------------
.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   dev-environment
   elasticsearch