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+---
+stage: enablement
+group: pods
+comments: false
+description: 'Pods: Global search'
+---
+
+DISCLAIMER:
+This page may contain information related to upcoming products, features and
+functionality. It is important to note that the information presented is for
+informational purposes only, so please do not rely on the information for
+purchasing or planning purposes. Just like with all projects, the items
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+sole discretion of GitLab Inc.
+
+This document is a work-in-progress and represents a very early state of the
+Pods design. Significant aspects are not documented, though we expect to add
+them in the future. This is one possible architecture for Pods, and we intend to
+contrast this with alternatives before deciding which approach to implement.
+This documentation will be kept even if we decide not to implement this so that
+we can document the reasons for not choosing this approach.
+
+# Pods: Global search
+
+When we introduce multiple Pods we intend to isolate all services related to
+those Pods. This will include Elasticsearch which means our current global
+search functionality will not work. It may be possible to implement aggregated
+search across all pods, but it is unlikely to be performant to do fan-out
+searches across all pods especially once you start to do pagination which
+requires setting the correct offset and page number for each search.
+
+## 1. Definition
+
+## 2. Data flow
+
+## 3. Proposal
+
+Likely first versions of Pods will simply not support global searches and then
+we may later consider if building global searches to support popular use cases
+is worthwhile.
+
+## 4. Evaluation
+
+## 4.1. Pros
+
+## 4.2. Cons