Add vector search documentation

_about/index.md

@@ -10,6 +10,51 @@ redirect_from:
   - /docs/opensearch/
   - /opensearch/
   - /opensearch/index/
+why_use:
+  - heading: "Vector database"
+    description: "Use OpenSearch as a vector database to combine the power of traditional search, analytics, and vector search."
+    link: "/vector-search/"
+  - heading: "Fast, scalable full-text search"
+    description: "Help users find the right information in your application, website, or data lake catalog."
+    link: "/search-plugins/"
+  - heading: "Application and infrastructure monitoring"
+    description: "Use observability logs, metrics, and traces to monitor your applications in real time."
+    link: "/observing-your-data/"
+  - heading: "Security and event information management"
+    description: "Centralize logs to enable real-time security monitoring and forensic analysis."
+    link: "/security/"
+features:
+  - heading: "Vector search"
+    description: "Build AI/ML-powered vector search applications using semantic, hybrid, or conversational search and more."
+    link: "/vector-search/"
+  - heading: "Machine learning"
+    description: "Integrate machine learning models into your workloads."
+    link: "/ml-commons-plugin/"
+  - heading: "Customizing your search"
+    description: "From optimizing performance to improving relevance, customize your search experience."
+    link: "/search-plugins/"
+  - heading: "Workflow automation"
+    description: "Automate complex OpenSearch setup and preprocessing tasks."
+    link: "/automating-configurations/"
+  - heading: "Anomaly detection"
+    description: "Identify atypical data and receive automatic notifications."
+    link: "/monitoring-plugins/ad/"
+  - heading: "Building visualizations"
+    description: "Visualize your data in OpenSearch Dashboards."
+    link: "/dashboards/"
+getting_started:
+  - heading: "Get started with OpenSearch"
+    description: "Learn about OpenSearch and start ingesting and searching data."
+    link: "/getting-started/"
+  - heading: "Get started with OpenSearch Dashboards"
+    description: "Learn about OpenSearch Dashboards applications and tools used to visualize data."
+    link: "/dashboards/quickstart/"
+  - heading: "Get started with vector search"
+    description: "Learn about vector search options and build your first vector search application."
+    link: "/search-plugins/"
+  - heading: "Get started with OpenSearch security"
+    description: "Learn about security in OpenSearch."
+    link: "/getting-started/security/"
 ---
 
 {%- comment -%}The `/docs/opensearch/` redirect is specifically to support the UI links in OpenSearch Dashboards 1.0.0.{%- endcomment -%}
@@ -22,70 +67,20 @@ This section contains documentation for OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards.
 
 ## Getting started
 
-To get started, explore the following documentation:
-
-- [Getting started guide]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/getting-started/): 
-  - [Intro to OpenSearch]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/getting-started/intro/)
-  - [Installation quickstart]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/getting-started/quickstart/)
-  - [Communicate with OpenSearch]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/getting-started/communicate/)
-  - [Ingest data]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/getting-started/ingest-data/)
-  - [Search data]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/getting-started/search-data/)
-  - [Getting started with OpenSearch security]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/getting-started/security/)
-- [Install OpenSearch]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/install-and-configure/install-opensearch/index/)
-- [Install OpenSearch Dashboards]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/install-and-configure/install-dashboards/index/)
-- [FAQ](https://opensearch.org/faq)
+{% include cards.html cards=page.getting_started %}
 
 ## Why use OpenSearch?
 
-<table style="table-layout: auto ; width: 100%;">
-<tbody>
-<tr style="text-align: center; vertical-align:center;">
-<td><img src="{{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/images/1_search.png" class="no-border" alt="Fast, scalable full-text search" height="100"/></td>
-<td><img src="{{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/images/2_monitoring.png" class="no-border" alt="Application and infrastructure monitoring" height="100"/></td>
-<td><img src="{{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/images/3_security.png" class="no-border" alt="Security and event information management" height="100"/></td>
-<td><img src="{{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/images/4_tracking.png" class="no-border" alt="Operational health tracking" height="100"/></td>
-</tr>
-<tr style="text-align: left; vertical-align:top; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0,59,92)">
-<td>Fast, scalable full-text search</td>
-<td>Application and infrastructure monitoring</td>
-<td>Security and event information management</td>
-<td>Operational health tracking</td>
-</tr>
-<tr style="text-align: left; vertical-align:top;">
-<td>Help users find the right information within your application, website, or data lake catalog. </td>
-<td>Easily store and analyze log data, and set automated alerts for performance issues.</td>
-<td>Centralize logs to enable real-time security monitoring and forensic analysis.</td>
-<td>Use observability logs, metrics, and traces to monitor your applications in real time.</td>
-</tr>
-</tbody>
-</table>
+{% include cards.html cards=page.why_use documentation_link=true %}
 
 ## Key features
 
-OpenSearch provides several features to help index, secure, monitor, and analyze your data:
-
-- [Anomaly detection]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/monitoring-plugins/ad/) -- Identify atypical data and receive automatic notifications.
-- [SQL]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/search-plugins/sql/index/) -- Use SQL or a Piped Processing Language (PPL) to query your data.
-- [Index State Management]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/im-plugin/) -- Automate index operations.
-- [Search methods]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/search-plugins/knn/) -- From traditional lexical search to advanced vector and hybrid search, discover the optimal search method for your use case.
-- [Machine learning]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/ml-commons-plugin/index/) -- Integrate machine learning models into your workloads.
-- [Workflow automation]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/automating-configurations/index/) -- Automate complex OpenSearch setup and preprocessing tasks.
-- [Performance evaluation]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/monitoring-plugins/pa/) -- Monitor and optimize your cluster.
-- [Asynchronous search]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/search-plugins/async/) -- Run search requests in the background.
-- [Cross-cluster replication]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/replication-plugin/index/) -- Replicate your data across multiple OpenSearch clusters.
-
-
-## The secure path forward
-
-OpenSearch includes a demo configuration so that you can get up and running quickly, but before using OpenSearch in a production environment, you must [configure the Security plugin manually]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/security/configuration/index/) with your own certificates, authentication method, users, and passwords. To get started, see [Getting started with OpenSearch security]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/getting-started/security/).
-
-## Looking for the Javadoc?
+{% include cards.html cards=page.features%}
 
-See [opensearch.org/javadocs/](https://opensearch.org/javadocs/).
 
 ## Get involved
 
-[OpenSearch](https://opensearch.org) is supported by Amazon Web Services. All components are available under the [Apache License, Version 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html) on [GitHub](https://github.com/opensearch-project/).
+[OpenSearch](https://opensearch.org) is supported by the OpenSearch Software Foundation. All components are available under the [Apache License, Version 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html) on [GitHub](https://github.com/opensearch-project/).
 The project welcomes GitHub issues, bug fixes, features, plugins, documentation---anything at all. To get involved, see [Contributing](https://opensearch.org/source.html) on the OpenSearch website.
 
 ---

_config.yml

@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ collections:
   workspace:
     permalink: /:collection/:path/
     output: true
+  vector-search:
+    permalink: /:collection/:path/
+    output: true
 
 opensearch_collection:
   # Define the collections used in the theme
@@ -173,6 +176,9 @@ opensearch_collection:
     search-plugins:
       name: Search features
       nav_fold: true
+    vector-search:
+      name: Vector search 
+      nav_fold: true
     ml-commons-plugin:
       name: Machine learning
       nav_fold: true