Integration of Elasticsearch (v5 only) as a search platform for Umbraco v7.5+
Umbraco.Elasticsearch is an Umbraco plugin designed to integrate your CMS with Elasticsearch. It is not designed to replace any built-in search features of Umbraco (Examine) and instead provides an independent point of search integration in which your CMS acts as a data source for your search index.
Umbraco.Elasticsearch is not an "install and forget" solution, to use it will be expected to have knowledge of the following:
- Develop custom code and logic within your Umbraco CMS, Umbraco.Elasticsearch is a code centric library
- How to extract node properties from Umbraco programmatically using
IContent
,IMedia
and theServiceContext
services - How to use the NEST Elasticsearch library to:
- Define indexing document mappings via either the NEST attributes or the
IElasticClient
- Write search queries using the NEST fluent DSL within the Nest-Searchify library wrapper
- Define indexing document mappings via either the NEST attributes or the
Installing Umbraco.Elasticsearch does not instantly give you full-text search over your CMS content, you will need to review the sample projects or read the documentation to learn how to get up and running.
Information on the latest release can be found within the github releases.