Getting started with Search Applications for your Elasticsearch index

Elastic Search Applications are a new concept introduced in Elastic version 8.8.0 to quickly build search-powered applications with Elasticsearch and the full breadth of its query capabilities. It combines many of the core concepts including Elasticsearch indices, Search templates that we just covered in the previous recipe, and an easy-to-use UI within Kibana for previewing search results. Additionally, there is a Search Application API available for seamless integration within your applications.

In this recipe, we will set up a Search Application on top of our movie dataset and take advantage of the search template we have built in the previous recipe.

The snippets used in this recipe are available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Elastic-Stack-8.x-Cookbook/blob/main/Chapter3/snippets.md#getting-started-with-search-applications-for-your-elasticsearch-index.

Getting ready

To follow along in this...