Meilisearch, A Search Engine Proven By An Indexed Search
Meilisearch on EL 10 from the vendor's release, pinned by a SHA-256 the role carries (the vendor publishes no checksum file), as a hardened systemd service on loopback in production mode behind a master key; the live test creates an index and documents, waits for the indexing task, searches and finds the one match, and sees a keyless request refused. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-09-21 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
Documentation
meilisearch
Meilisearch, the search engine in one binary, from the upstream release (SHA-256 pinned: the vendor publishes no checksum file), as a hardened system service on loopback in production mode behind a master key. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on Rocky Linux 10.
No package, and no checksum file to speak of. EL 10 carries no
meilisearch, and Meilisearch publishes the release with nothing beside it. This
role pins the SHA-256 per architecture beside the version, has Ansible's
get_url refuse the binary unless it matches, and installs it
as root's in /usr/local/bin. A new release is a new pair, on purpose.
A service account, a hardened unit, a loopback listener. meilisearch
is a system user with no shell that owns the data directory and nothing
else; the unit runs with NoNewPrivileges, PrivateTmp, ProtectHome and
ProtectSystem=strict. The listener is 127.0.0.1:7700 by default,
for a proxy that authenticates or a client on the same host; the live test
reads the listening sockets and expects loopback only.
Proven by a search. The live test creates an index, adds two
documents, waits for the indexing task to succeed (Meilisearch indexes
asynchronously; the test polls the task, it does not sleep), searches for
a word and expects exactly the one document that holds it; a request
without the master key is refused. Analytics are off (no_analytics).
The master key is yours to set. Production mode refuses to start
without one; the default in defaults/main.yml is a placeholder the live
test mirrors. Set meilisearch_master_key from your secret store and
mint search-only API keys from it for applications.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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