# What is Solr? Solr is highly reliable, scalable and fault tolerant, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, automated failover and recovery, centralized configuration and more. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. Learn more on [Apache Solr homepage](http://lucene.apache.org/solr/) and in the [Apache Solr Reference Guide](https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ref-guide/). > [wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Solr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Solr) %%LOGO%% # How to use this Docker image To run a single Solr server: ```console $ docker run -p 8983:8983 -t %%IMAGE%% ``` Then with a web browser go to http://localhost:8983/ to see the Solr Admin Console. For more detailed instructions for using this image, see the [README](https://github.com/docker-solr/docker-solr/blob/master/README.md). # About this repository This repository is available on [github.com/docker-solr/docker-solr](https://github.com/docker-solr/docker-solr), and the official build is on the [Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/_/solr/).