codingblocks/search-driven-apps-with-elasticsearch

Three different apps that take advantage of the power and flexibility of the Elastic stack

Building Search Driven Apps with Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is a highly scalable and feature-rich search engine that makes certain types of problems very easy to solve.

This repository contains three (okay, two - the third is handled by APM) different apps that take advantage of Elasticsearch's capabilities to do really cool things. It's all about using the right tool for the job!

Check out the slides here: https://github.com/codingblocks/search-driven-apps/blob/master/search-driven-apps.pptx

Also, if you're interested in experimenting with Elasticsearch - make sure to check out this docker-compose file we made that will spin up Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana so you can hit the ground running!

More about the apps

Board Games

An ecommerce style website for filtering board games.

cd boardgames && docker-compose up

Podcasts

A simple search powered website that demonstrates fuzzy matching

cd podcasts && docker-compose up

Monitoring

Handled through Kibana

Troubleshooting

Just run this

docker kill $(docker ps -q)

Notes on deploying with kubernetes

docker build -f Dockerfile.App -t podcasts-website .
docker tag podcasts-website:latest gcr.io/macro-dolphin-137214/podcasts-website
docker push gcr.io/macro-dolphin-137214/podcasts-website

docker build -f Dockerfile.Logstash -t logstash .
docker tag logstash:latest gcr.io/macro-dolphin-137214/logstash
docker push gcr.io/macro-dolphin-137214/logstash

docker build -f Dockerfile.Apm -t apm .
docker tag apm:latest gcr.io/macro-dolphin-137214/apm
docker push gcr.io/macro-dolphin-137214/apm

cd kubernetes
kubectl create -f namespace-podcasts.json --namespace=podcasts
kubectl config set-context $(kubectl config current-context) --namespace=podcasts
kubectl apply -f . --namespace podcasts