Searchlight is an OpenStack project that provides advanced indexing and search capabilities across multi-tenant cloud resources using Elasticsearch. It was originally developed as an experimental feature of Glance called the "Glance Catalog Index Service" but has expanded to index other resources like Nova instances. The current priorities for Searchlight in the Liberty release include completing the separation from Glance, adding deployment options, indexing additional resources like Glance images and Nova instances, initial Horizon integration, and improving documentation. The long term vision is for Searchlight to provide a unified search interface across all major OpenStack services.

1. Co-PTL
IRC: TravT
Travis Tripp Nikhil Komawar
Co-PTL
IRC: nikhil_k
Searchlight
(OpenStack Search)
Liberty Update

2. To provide advanced and scalable indexing and
search across multi-tenant cloud resources.

3. Background

4. Searchlight Kilo Release
● Released as major experimental feature in Glance
● “Glance Catalog Index Service”
● Elasticsearch indexing of images and metadata defs
● Separate deployable endpoint
● 22 contributors / reviewers from 7 different companies

5. Searchlight Accepted as New Project
● Multiple requests for it to expand scope
● Proof of concept demonstrated at summit:
● Horizon and Glance fishbowl sessions
● Nova instance indexing and search
● https://youtu.be/eGnGr48E5_4
● Glance team voted to spin it off
● Accepted by TC as new OpenStack governed project

6. Concepts

7. ● Full text search on any OpenStack resource
● Search term faceting
● Search auto-completion
● The ability to limit to the properties we care about
● Fuzzy search (fedroa ~ fedora)
● More like this
Native Elasticsearch Query Power
For all users (not just admins)

8. Searchlight
Cloud Services
Nova Glance
Neutron Cinder
Designate Other
Resources indexed:
• on demand
• via notifications
Horizon
& other
clients
Action Requests
List and Query Requests
plugins
Searchlight Concept Flow

9. API
Use Search Service
Search
Service
Available
?
Use Standard API
Query / List Resources
Display
Results
Result Objects
Searchlight: Use When It’s There
Per Region Endpoint Deployment

10. What’s next?

11. Searchlight Liberty Top Priorities
● Complete separation from Glance
● Deployment options (manual and devstack)
● Glance image and metadata definition indexing
● Nova indexing instances, flavors, metadata
● Horizon initial integration
● Improved testing
● Improved documentation

12. Additional Blueprints Underway
● Designate indexing
● Neutron investigation
● Swift metadata investigation
● Named queries (simplified, pre-defined queries)

13. Plugin Pattern Establishment
● Handling API Versioning
● Per plugin configuration
● Best practices

14. Drivers and cores
● Current 12 cores from 3 different companies
● How to get involved?

15. [searchlight] on openstack-dev mailing list
#openstack-searchlight on Freenode
http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/#Search_Team_Meeting
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Searchlight
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