[ckan-dev] CKAN 1.7 and Elastic Search

[Rufus Pollock]

On 15 May 2012 12:49, BIHANIC Laurent <laurent.bihanic at atos.net> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Le 15/05/12 13:10, Rufus Pollock a écrit :
>>> I've read that the DataStore module was planned for being included in CKAN v1.7.
>>> Did this actually happen?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> OK. So the code is included but actually disabled.
> To enable it requires installing & configuring nginx & Elastic Search. correct?

Yes.

> Is the Datastorer (ckanext-datastorer) also included? What about celeryd? Is
> it installed to be automatically started at system boot time?

That's a good question for my colleague David Raznick as he leads on
the datastorer.

> If not, is there a shell-script provided wrapping the celeryd paster command?
>
>>> The CKAN 1.7 documentation still lists DataStore as a separate module and the
>>> CKAN installation page does not include installation of Elastic Search.
>>
>> It's optional at present so it's not enabled by default. It also
>> requires nginx either in front of, on instead of, Apache.
>>
>> Do you think we should be including all of the requirements as part of
>> the package install (even if it remains disabled)?
>
> No, but the documentation should indicate that the module is present but disabled.

Agreed.

Rufus