Managed Solr Search

The SearchStax Solr-as-a-Service solution gives developers their time back and automates a huge chunk of this operational work without making them code any flexibility or give up any control over their Solr infrastructure.

Managed Solr

Why Managed Solr?

Built-in Alerting and Monitoring Dashboard
Backups
Disaster Recovery
Scaling Up, Down, and Auto-Scaling
Private Environments
Security and Compliance

How to integrate with Sitecore?

Step 1:

Start the free trial

https://www.searchstax.com/freetrial/

Step 2:

Create new Deployment

Special Note :

Check the compatible Solr version for your Sitecore instance.

https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0227897

Create your deployment & you will land this page.

It’ll take few minutes for finish the deployment. You can go to break until it’s done.
You would receive the email , once it deployed.

Received Email :

Step 3:

Open the Solr Service URL

Once you create your deployment, you will see it in the Solr Deployments dashboard.
You can access the Solr now,

Step 4:

Secure Zookeeper with an IP Filter

This term is very new to me, are you feeling same???

Let’s know about Zookeeper

What is ZooKeeper?

Zookeepers are a central repository for SolrCloud configuration. You can consider it as a distributed filesystem which can be accessed by all Solr nodes in the cluster. So if you change any config file you just need to inform or upload it to Zookeeper and not on every node in the cluster.
One more important responsibility of Zookeeper is to keep an eye on the state of all Solr nodes in the cluster. If any node goes down and a search request comes in for that node, Zookeeper routes it to an alternative replica node.
When you are updating any document in SolrCloud, it is zookeeper who delegates your update request to the appropriate node in the cloud holding the document

How can I secure Zookeeper?

When SearchStax creates a new Solr deployment, we lock down the Zookeeper ensemble so that it cannot be reached from the Internet. To upload a configuration to Zookeeper, you have to add an IP Filter that whitelists your work computer or subnet.

Let’s do it

Click on the name
Go to the detail page
Remove the existing row

Add new row

Then save changes.

we need to wait for 5 minutes to reflect the changes.

Step 5:

Install PowerShell Core and Yaml Module

Check powershell version - $PSVersionTable

Install Powersheel 7 - iex "& { $(irm https://aka.ms/install-powershell.ps1) } -UseMSI"
start Powershell Core as the Administrator.- Install-Module powershell-yaml