MeiliSearch

About

MeiliSearch is an open source lightweight alternative to ElasticSearch, giving developers blazingly fast and relevant search results in their application.

Installation & Basic Usage

Please see the Introduction & Concepts, then reference the examples below on adding this service to your project.

Base: docker-compose.yml

Add this section to your main docker-compose.yml file, which will act as a "base". All environments will reference this file, so you can simply manage everything from one location.

  meilisearch:
    image: getmeili/meilisearch
    environment:
      MEILI_NO_ANALYTICS: "true"

See the official MeiliSearch DockerHub page for specific version references.

Development: docker-compose.dev.yml

  meilisearch:
    networks:
        - web-dev
    volumes: 
      - ./_volumes/meilisearch/data.ms:/data.ms:cached
    # Example dependencies for other services. Remove below if not needed
    depends_on:
      - "mariadb"
      - "php"

Persistent storage

All persistent storage will be located in a ./_volumes/ folder on your project.

Add this to your .gitignore

/_volumes/*

Networks

If you copy and paste from above, be sure to define your network at the bottom of the file.

networks:
  web-dev:

Real-life example

See our open source project called Financial Freedom for more examples.