K-Search Engine Docker image

The K-Search Engine is a SOLR instance specifically configured for the K-Search component to allow full text retrieval of documents.

Usage

# Pull the image
docker pull klinktechnology/k-search-engine:{version-tag}

# Run the image one time, in this case pressing Ctrl+C will stop the container and remove it
docker run -it --rm -p "8983:8983" --name="k-search-engine" k-search-engine
# now you can connect to http://localhost:8983/solr to browse the SOLR search engine UI

where {version-tag} is the version of the k-search-engine you want to use

Caveats

The index name on the search engine is k-search and cannot be customized.
the search engine starts in foreground mode, so all log entries are sent to Docker

Commands

The docker image startup support various commands:

start (default) starts a SOLR instance with the k-search index on the default 8983 port
optimize perform optimization maintenance task, see Optimization section
help output the list of available commands

Search index storage

The search engine index is stored in /opt/solr/k-search/k-search/data, you can mount any volume on that folder in order to persist its content.

docker run -it --rm -p "8983:8983" --name="k-search-engine" -v "./local-folder:/opt/solr/k-search/k-search/data" k-search-engine

Building

To build the image execute the docker build command.

# Build the image
docker build -t k-search-engine .

Versions

Version 1.0.1 moved to SOLR 7.4. This version is required to use K-Search API version 3.5.
Version 0.4.x or below uses SOLR 5.x and can be used up to K-Search API version 3.4.

Check the upgrade section for upgrade instructions

Maintenance operations

Optimization

Sometimes the Search Engine index needs to be optimized. Index optimization is required after search engine upgrades (before adding new documents).

To execute the index optimization run

# operates on a running instance
docker exec {container-name} /opt/solr/start.sh optimize

where {container-name} is the name of the container assigned to the search engine.

The command will output something like

K-Search Engine, based on SOLR 7.4.0.
Optimizing the index...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   148    0   148    0     0    707      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   711

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
<lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">52</int></lst>
</response>

While in the log you should see an entry with Starting optimize...

[...] o.a.s.u.DirectUpdateHandler2 Starting optimize... Reading and rewriting the entire index! Use with care.
[...] o.a.s.u.DirectUpdateHandler2 No uncommitted changes. Skipping IW.commit.
[...] o.a.s.c.SolrCore SolrIndexSearcher has not changed - not re-opening: org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher
[...] o.a.s.u.DirectUpdateHandler2 end_commit_flush
[...] o.a.s.u.p.LogUpdateProcessorFactory [k-search]  webapp=/solr pa

Upgrade

Upgrade from 0.4.2 to 1.0.x

The index upgrade from 0.4.2 to 1.0 cannot be done automatically, as consequence of the move from SOLR 5 to SOLR 7 directly.

To upgrade delete your current search index before starting the upgraded K-Search Engine container.

License

This project is licensed under the AGPL v3 license, see LICENSE.txt.

k-box/k-search-engine