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Appendix B

Installing the Solr Search Engine

This appendix provides step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring Solr to use as our search engine as part of improving the search service part of our case study in Chapter 12, “Case Study: Migration to Microservices.” The instructions are applicable to CentOS operating system. If you want to learn more about Solr and explore its capabilities, visit http://lucene.apache.org/solr/resources.html.

Prerequisites

• CentOS Linux box or virtual machine with at least 1 GB of RAM

• python-software-properties package installed

• Latest version of Java installed

Installation Steps

1. Download the Solr tar file from the mirror. You can pull the latest version available, but at time of writing, ...

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