# Welcome to the Apache Solr project! ----------------------------------- Solr is the blazing-fast, open source, multi-modal search platform built on [Apache Lucene](https://lucene.apache.org/). It powers full-text, vector, and geospatial search at many of the world's largest organizations. For a complete description of the Solr project, team composition, source code repositories, and other details, please see the Solr web site at https://solr.apache.org/ ## Download Downloads for Apache Solr distributions are available at https://solr.apache.org/downloads.html. ## Running Solr ### Installing Solr The Reference Guide contains an entire [Deployment Guide](https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/deployment-guide/system-requirements.html) to walk you through installing Solr. ### Running Solr in Docker You can run Solr in Docker via the [official image](https://hub.docker.com/_/solr). Learn more about [Solr in Docker](https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/deployment-guide/solr-in-docker.html) ### Running Solr on Kubernetes Solr has official support for running on Kubernetes, in the official Docker image. Please refer to the [Solr Operator](https://solr.apache.org/operator) home for details, tutorials and instructions. ## How to Use Solr includes a few examples to help you get started. To run a specific example, enter: ``` bin/solr start -e where is one of: cloud: SolrCloud example techproducts: Comprehensive example illustrating many of Solr's core capabilities schemaless: Schema-less example (schema is inferred from data during indexing) films: Example of starting with _default configset and adding explicit fields dynamically ``` For instance, if you want to run the techproducts example, enter: ``` bin/solr start -e techproducts ``` For a more in-depth introduction, please check out the [tutorials in the Solr Reference Guide](https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/getting-started/solr-tutorial.html). ## Support - [Users Mailing List](https://solr.apache.org/community.html#mailing-lists-chat) - Slack: Solr Community Channel. Sign up at https://s.apache.org/solr-slack - IRC: `#solr` on [libera.chat](https://web.libera.chat/?channels=#solr) ## Get Involved Please review [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for information on contributing to the project. To get involved in the developer community: - [Mailing Lists](https://solr.apache.org/community.html#mailing-lists-chat) - Slack: `#solr-dev` in the `the-asf` organization. Sign up at https://the-asf.slack.com/messages/CE70MDPMF - [Issue Tracker (JIRA)](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR) - IRC: `#solr-dev` on [libera.chat](https://web.libera.chat/?channels=#solr-dev) Learn more about developing Solr by reading through the developer docs in [./dev-docs](./dev-docs) source tree.