Sharing an OpenSearch cluster across a staging and live website
If you host a staging website and a live website, each with their own Content Delivery environment, you might want the two to use the same OpenSearch cluster, but different indexes for your search feature. To achieve this, modify your scripts so that the indexes in both environments have different names.
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By default, the search feature installed in one Content Delivery environment uses the same index names as the one installed in another Content Delivery environment. So long as each environment uses its own OpenSearch cluster, this is not a problem.
But if you want to use the same OpenSearch cluster for both environments, you need to ensure that the index names are unique. You can achieve this by adding a startup argument to your OpenSearch index installation scripts, or, if you do not use those, your microservice installation scripts.