Search indexes allow queries to be made for any type of data that is
indexed by the Chef Infra Server, including data bags (and data bag
items), environments, nodes, and roles. A defined query syntax is used
to support search patterns like exact, wildcard, range, and fuzzy. A
search is a full-text query that can be done from several locations,
including from within a recipe, by using the search subcommand in
knife, the search method in the Chef Infra Language, the search box in the Chef
management console, and by using the /search or /search/INDEX
endpoints in the Chef Infra Server API. The search engine is based on
Elasticsearch and is run from the Chef Infra Server.