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Achieving Sovereignty in Open-Source Search and Analytics

  • Overview of Elastic license changes and resulting forks.
  • Comparing feature parity between OpenSearch and Elasticsearch for 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.
  • Preventing split-brain scenarios: utilizing discovery.seed_hosts and minimum_master_nodes settings.

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: setting up alert rules and anomaly detection.

Index Management

  • ILM processes: rollover, shrinking, and deletion.
  • Implementing hot-warm-cold architecture.
  • Optimizing mappings and text analysis.

Security and Access Control

  • RBAC implementation with users, roles, and tenants.
  • SAML and OpenID Connect authentication methods.
  • Document-level security and field masking techniques.

Backup and Recovery

  • Configuring snapshot repositories for MinIO, S3, or NFS.
  • Automating snapshots with Curator/ISM.
  • Restoring specific indices and ensuring cluster-wide disaster recovery.

Requirements

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

Target Audience

  • Engineers specializing in search and log analytics.
  • Teams transitioning away from managed Elasticsearch or Splunk solutions.
  • Security analysts developing sovereign SIEM backends.
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