Currently the Search Service is a WCF Service hosted inside a Windows Service. These are legacy technologies and make it hard to deploy the service in a modern environment. Evaluate the options we have:
deploy the whole service as it is, on a Virtual Machine
deploy the whole service as it is, in a Docker container with a mounted index folder
move to .Net Core with an beta (?) version of CoreWCF (a port of WCF on .Net Core)
Currently the Search Service is a WCF Service hosted inside a Windows Service. These are legacy technologies and make it hard to deploy the service in a modern environment. Evaluate the options we have: