diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index 665e2d408830..1d318a4a1996 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -210,6 +210,10 @@ val rss = application("rss")
   .dependsOn(commonWithTests)
   .aggregate(common)
 
+val search = application("search")
+  .dependsOn(commonWithTests)
+  .aggregate(common)
+
 val main = root()
 // This evicts the version of
 // "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind"
@@ -235,6 +239,7 @@ val main = root()
     archive,
     preview,
     rss,
+    search,
   )
   .settings(
     riffRaffUploadArtifactBucket := Some(
diff --git a/riff-raff.yaml b/riff-raff.yaml
index bb9032fca1d3..9ddaa18ebcaa 100644
--- a/riff-raff.yaml
+++ b/riff-raff.yaml
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ deployments:
     template: frontend
   sport:
     template: frontend
+  search:
+    template: frontend
   frontend-static:
     type: aws-s3
     parameters:
diff --git a/search/app/AppLoader.scala b/search/app/AppLoader.scala
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..595033b9b0f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/search/app/AppLoader.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+import akka.actor.ActorSystem
+import http.{CommonFilters, CorsHttpErrorHandler}
+import app.{FrontendApplicationLoader, FrontendBuildInfo, FrontendComponents}
+import com.softwaremill.macwire._
+import common._
+import common.Logback.{LogbackOperationsPool, LogstashLifecycle}
+import contentapi.{CapiHttpClient, ContentApiClient, HttpClient}
+import controllers.{HealthCheck, SearchController}
+import dev.{DevAssetsController, DevParametersHttpRequestHandler}
+import model.{ApplicationContext, ApplicationIdentity}
+import play.api.ApplicationLoader.Context
+import play.api.http.{HttpErrorHandler, HttpRequestHandler}
+import play.api.{BuiltInComponentsFromContext, Environment}
+import play.api.mvc.{ControllerComponents, EssentialFilter}
+import play.api.routing.Router
+import play.api.libs.ws.WSClient
+import router.Routes
+
+import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext
+
+class AppLoader extends FrontendApplicationLoader {
+  override def buildComponents(context: Context): FrontendComponents =
+    new BuiltInComponentsFromContext(context) with AppComponents
+}
+
+trait SearchControllers {
+  def contentApiClient: ContentApiClient
+  def wsClient: WSClient
+  def controllerComponents: ControllerComponents
+  implicit def appContext: ApplicationContext
+  lazy val searchController = wire[SearchController]
+}
+
+trait SearchServices {
+  def wsClient: WSClient
+  def environment: Environment
+  def actorSystem: ActorSystem
+  implicit def appContext: ApplicationContext
+  implicit val executionContext: ExecutionContext
+  lazy val capiHttpClient: HttpClient = wire[CapiHttpClient]
+  lazy val contentApiClient = wire[ContentApiClient]
+}
+
+trait AppComponents extends FrontendComponents with SearchControllers with SearchServices {
+
+  lazy val healthCheck = wire[HealthCheck]
+  lazy val devAssetsController = wire[DevAssetsController]
+  lazy val logbackOperationsPool = wire[LogbackOperationsPool]
+
+  override lazy val lifecycleComponents = List(
+    wire[LogstashLifecycle],
+  )
+
+  lazy val router: Router = wire[Routes]
+
+  lazy val appIdentity = ApplicationIdentity("search")
+
+  val applicationMetrics = ApplicationMetrics(
+    ContentApiMetrics.HttpTimeoutCountMetric,
+    ContentApiMetrics.ContentApiErrorMetric,
+    ContentApiMetrics.ContentApiRequestsMetric,
+  )
+
+  val frontendBuildInfo: FrontendBuildInfo = frontend.search.BuildInfo
+  override lazy val httpFilters: Seq[EssentialFilter] = wire[CommonFilters].filters
+  override lazy val httpRequestHandler: HttpRequestHandler = wire[DevParametersHttpRequestHandler]
+  override lazy val httpErrorHandler: HttpErrorHandler = wire[CorsHttpErrorHandler]
+
+  def actorSystem: ActorSystem
+}
diff --git a/search/app/controllers/HealthCheck.scala b/search/app/controllers/HealthCheck.scala
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..139a8083b7d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/search/app/controllers/HealthCheck.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+package controllers
+
+import conf.{AllGoodCachedHealthCheck, NeverExpiresSingleHealthCheck}
+import play.api.libs.ws.WSClient
+import play.api.mvc.ControllerComponents
+
+import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext
+
+class HealthCheck(wsClient: WSClient, val controllerComponents: ControllerComponents)(implicit
+    executionContext: ExecutionContext,
+) extends AllGoodCachedHealthCheck(
+      NeverExpiresSingleHealthCheck("/search"),
+    )(wsClient, executionContext)
diff --git a/search/app/controllers/SearchController.scala b/search/app/controllers/SearchController.scala
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3bd3a895be3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/search/app/controllers/SearchController.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+package controllers
+
+import common.{GuLogging, ImplicitControllerExecutionContext}
+import contentapi.ContentApiClient
+import model.ApplicationContext
+import play.api.libs.ws.WSClient
+import play.api.mvc.{BaseController, ControllerComponents}
+
+import scala.concurrent.Future
+
+class SearchController(
+    contentApiClient: ContentApiClient,
+    ws: WSClient,
+    val controllerComponents: ControllerComponents,
+)(implicit context: ApplicationContext)
+    extends BaseController
+    with GuLogging
+    with ImplicitControllerExecutionContext {
+
+  def search() = {
+    Action.async(Future.successful(Ok("ok")))
+  }
+}
diff --git a/search/conf/application.conf b/search/conf/application.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..59884f34db9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/search/conf/application.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+
+akka {
+  loggers = ["akka.event.Logging$DefaultLogger", "akka.event.slf4j.Slf4jLogger"]
+  loglevel = WARNING
+  actor {
+    default-dispatcher = {
+      fork-join-executor {
+        parallelism-factor = 1.0
+        parallelism-max = 24
+      }
+    }
+    java-futures = {
+      fork-join-executor {
+        parallelism-factor = 1.0
+        parallelism-max = 1
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+play {
+
+  http {
+    # The secret key is used to secure cryptographics functions.
+    # If you deploy your application to several instances be sure to use the same key!
+    secret.key: ${APP_SECRET}
+    forwarded.trustedProxies = [ "0.0.0.0/0" ]
+  }
+
+  il8n {
+    langs: "en"
+  }
+
+  ws {
+    compressionEnabled: true
+
+    timeout {
+        #The maximum time to wait when connecting to the remote host (default is 120 seconds).
+        connection: 1000ms
+        #The maximum time the request can stay idle (connection is established but waiting for more data) (default is 120 seconds).
+        idle: 2000ms
+        #The total time you accept a request to take (it will be interrupted even if the remote host is still sending data) (default is 120 seconds).
+        request: 2000ms
+    }
+  }
+
+  application.loader = AppLoader
+}
+
+guardian: {
+  projectName: search
+}
diff --git a/search/conf/logback.xml b/search/conf/logback.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..db5e4bcd4fcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/search/conf/logback.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<configuration>
+
+    <contextName>frontend-onward</contextName>
+
+    <appender name="LOGFILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
+        <file>logs/frontend-onward.log</file>
+
+        <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeAndTimeBasedRollingPolicy">
+            <fileNamePattern>logs/frontend-onward.log.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.%i.gz</fileNamePattern>
+            <maxHistory>7</maxHistory><totalSizeCap>512MB</totalSizeCap><maxFileSize>256MB</maxFileSize>
+        </rollingPolicy>
+
+        <encoder>
+            <pattern>%date [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n%xException</pattern>
+        </encoder>
+    </appender>
+
+    <root level="INFO">
+        <appender-ref ref="LOGFILE"/>
+    </root>
+
+</configuration>
diff --git a/search/conf/routes b/search/conf/routes
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9b40bb79b8fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/search/conf/routes
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+GET /healthcheck    controllers.HealthCheck.healthCheck()
+GET /search         controllers.SearchController.search()