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A Beginner’s Guide to Elasticsearch CRUD Operations and Search with Python

Greetings! Search functionality is a common feature in most applications today. Elasticsearch, one of the most powerful and widely used search engines, offers efficient solutions for building search applications. In this article, we will create a simple REST application with a search endpoint using Elasticsearch and Python Flask. The code is straightforward and easy to understand. Setup Elasticsearch We are using the Elasticsearch Docker image to set up a local cluster; however, you can use any method you prefer to set up an Elasticsearch cluster. version: "3.9" services: elasticsearch: image: elasticsearch:8.6.2 environment: - xpack.security.enabled=false - discovery.type=single-node - ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms1g -Xmx1g volumes: - es_data:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data ports: - target: 9200 published: 9200 networks: - elastic kibana: image: kibana:8.6.2 ports: - target: 5601 published: 5601 depends_on: - ...