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Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server - Third Edition

By : David Smiley, Eric Pugh, Kranti Parisa, Matt Mitchell
Book Image

Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server - Third Edition

By: David Smiley, Eric Pugh, Kranti Parisa, Matt Mitchell

Overview of this book

<p>Solr Apache is a widely popular open source enterprise search server that delivers powerful search and faceted navigation features—features that are elusive with databases. Solr supports complex search criteria, faceting, result highlighting, query-completion, query spell-checking, relevancy tuning, geospatial searches, and much more.</p> <p>This book is a comprehensive resource for just about everything Solr has to offer, and it will take you from first exposure to development and deployment in no time. Even if you wish to use Solr 5, you should find the information to be just as applicable due to Solr's high regard for backward compatibility. The book includes some useful information specific to Solr 5.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server Third Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Deployment methodology for Solr


There are a number of questions that you need to ask yourself in order to inform the development of a smooth deployment strategy for Solr. The deployment process should ideally be fully scripted and integrated into the existing Configuration Management (CM) process of your application.

Note

Configuration Management is the task of tracking and controlling changes in the software. CM attempts to make the changes that occur in software knowable as it evolves to mitigate mistakes caused due to those changes.

Questions to ask

The list of questions that you'll want to answer to work in conjunction with your operations team includes:

  • How similar is my deployment environment to my development and test environments? Can I project that if one Solr instance was enough to meet my load requirements in test, then it is also applicable to the load expected in production based on having similar physical hardware?

  • Do I need multiple Solr servers to meet the projected load or for...