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Open-Source Search and Analytics Sovereignty

  • Examination of Elastic license changes and subsequent forks.
  • Feature parity between OpenSearch and Elasticsearch in 2025-2026.
  • Application scenarios: enterprise search, log analytics, SIEM, and observability.

Cluster Architecture

  • Node roles: master, data, coordinating, and ingest.
  • Security plugin features: TLS internode communication, certificates, and PKI.
  • Preventing split-brain scenarios through discovery.seed_hosts and minimum master nodes configurations.

Data Ingestion

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

Search and Dashboards

  • Query DSL capabilities: match, term, range, aggregations, and nested fields.
  • Creating visualizations and dashboards in OpenSearch Dashboards.
  • SIEM applications: configuring alert rules and anomaly detection.

Index Management

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

Security and Access Control

  • RBAC implementation involving users, roles, and tenants.
  • Authentication via SAML and OpenID Connect.
  • Document-level security and field masking techniques.

Backup and Recovery

  • Configuring snapshot repositories to MinIO, S3, or NFS.
  • Automating snapshots using Curator or ISM.
  • Restoring specific indices and achieving cluster-wide disaster recovery.

Requirements

  • A foundational understanding of search engines and inverted indexes.
  • Practical experience with REST APIs and JSON.
  • Basic Linux administration skills, including familiarity with systemd, logs, and packages.

Target Audience

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