Install Quickwit with Helm

Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes that allows you to configure, install, and upgrade containerized applications in a Kubernetes cluster in a version-controlled and reproducible way.

You can install Quickwit on Kubernetes with the official Quickwit Helm chart. If you encounter any problem with the chart, please, open an issue in our GitHub repository.

Requirements

To deploy Quickwit on Kubernetes, you will need:

• kubectl, compatible with your cluster (+/- 1 minor release from your cluster) (kubectl version)
• Helm v3 (helm version)
• A Kubernetes cluster

1. Install kubectl and helm

To install kubectl and helm locally, follow the Kubernetes and Helm documentation pages.

2. Add the Quickwit Helm chart repository to Helm

helm repo add quickwit https://helm.quickwit.io

3. Update the repository

helm repo update quickwit

4. Create and customize your configuration file values.yaml

You can inspect the default configuration values of the chart using the following command:

helm show values quickwit/quickwit

Here is an example of a minimal configuration with a file-backed metastore:

environment:
  QW_METASTORE_URI: s3://<my-bucket>/quickwit-indexes

config:
  default_index_root_uri: s3://<my-bucket>/quickwit-indexes
  storage:
    s3:
      region: eu-east-1
      # We recommend using IAM roles and permissions to access Amazon S3 resources,
      # but you can specify a pair of access and secret keys if necessary.
      access_key_id: <my access key>
      secret_access_key: <my secret key>

5. Deploy Quickwit

helm install <deployment name> quickwit/quickwit -f values.yaml

6. Check that Quickwit is running

It might take some time for the cluster to start. During the startup process individual pods might restart themselves several times. The command on the previous step will print the instructions on how to connect to the cluster. This endpoint can be used to access the quickwit search UI, as well execute standard API commands against.

Using PostgreSQL as a metadata store

The file-backed metastore is mainly useful for testing purposes. Though a file-backed metastore might be easier to setup, we strongly encourage you to use a PostgreSQL metastore in production. For the quickwit installation to work with PostgreSQL metadata you need to provide connection PostgreSQL information instead of metastore URI:

config:
  default_index_root_uri: s3://<my-bucket>/quickwit-indexes

  postgres:
    host: <postgres_host>
    port: 5432
    database: quickwit-metastore
    username: quickwit
    password: <my strong password> # This password will be stored as a Kubernetes Secret

  storage: {}
    s3:
      region: eu-east-1
      # We recommend using IAM roles and permissions to access Amazon S3 resources,
      # but you can specify a pair of access and secret keys if necessary.
      access_key_id: <my access key>
      secret_access_key: <my secret key>

Uninstall the deployment

Run the following Helm command to uninstall the deployment

helm uninstall <deployment name>