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Open-Source Search and Analytics Sovereignty

  • Elastic license changes and forks.
  • Feature parity between OpenSearch and Elasticsearch in 2025-2026.
  • Use cases: enterprise search, log analytics, SIEM, and observability.

Cluster Architecture

  • Node roles: master, data, coordinating, and ingest nodes.
  • Security plugin: inter-node TLS, certificates, and PKI.
  • Split-brain prevention: configuring discovery.seed_hosts and minimum master nodes.

Data Ingestion

  • REST API indexing, bulk loading, and mapping definitions.
  • Utilizing Beats, Fluent Bit, and Logstash pipelines.
  • Using the OpenTelemetry Collector for traces and metrics.

Search and Dashboards

  • Query DSL: match, term, range, aggregations, and nested fields.
  • OpenSearch Dashboards: creating visualizations and dashboards.
  • SIEM use cases: alert rules and anomaly detection.

Index Management

  • ILM (Index Lifecycle Management): rollover, shrinking, and deletion.
  • Hot-warm-cold architecture.
  • Mapping optimization and text analysis.

Security and Access Control

  • RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) with users, roles, and tenants.
  • SAML and OpenID Connect authentication.
  • Document-level security and field masking.

Backup and Recovery

  • Snapshot repositories configured for MinIO, S3, or NFS.
  • Automating snapshots with Curator and ISM.
  • Restoring specific indices and implementing cluster-wide disaster recovery.

Requirements

  • Understanding of search engines and inverted indexes.
  • Experience with REST APIs and JSON.
  • Basic Linux administration skills: systemd, logs, and package management.

Audience

  • Search and log analytics engineers.
  • Teams migrating away from managed Elasticsearch or Splunk solutions.
  • Security analysts developing sovereign SIEM backends.
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