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

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

Background

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

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

Concepts

● 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)

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

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

What’s next?

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

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

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

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

[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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