Akshara is an initiative to promote the usage of native langauge in computing and literature.

We use docker during development as well as for production use.

Please follow the official docs to install docker and docker-compose on your system.

Then a simple docker-compose up (from the project root directory) will start all of the akshara services. Full list of those services:

• Elasticsearch, for the search backend (http://localhost:9200)
• Kibana, for exploring the elasticsearch data (http://localhost:5601)

• You will need to prefix the docker commands with sudo, if you haven't added your user to the docker group.

• If you are a developer running the elasticsearch instance here for testing, please read through the elasticsearch-specific akshara docs, especailly the usage section. Our elasticsearch setup makes certain assumptions that you need to follow while indexing documents, to ensure that all search features are available.