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Sovereignty in Open-Source Search and Analytics

  • Elastic license changes and the emergence of forks.
  • Feature parity between OpenSearch and Elasticsearch for 2025-2026.
  • Key use cases: enterprise search, log analytics, SIEM, and observability.

Cluster Architecture

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

Data Ingestion

  • Indexing via REST API, bulk loading, and defining mappings.
  • Pipelines using Beats, Fluent Bit, and Logstash.
  • Utilizing the OpenTelemetry Collector for traces and metrics.

Search and Dashboards

  • Query DSL concepts: match, term, range, aggregations, and nested fields.
  • Creating visualizations and dashboards in OpenSearch Dashboards.
  • SIEM applications: defining alert rules and detecting anomalies.

Index Management

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

Security and Access Control

  • RBAC implementation using users, roles, and tenants.
  • Authentication via SAML and OpenID Connect.
  • Enforcing document-level security and field masking.

Backup and Recovery

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

Requirements

  • Familiarity with search engines and inverted indexes.
  • Practical experience with REST APIs and JSON.
  • Foundational Linux administration skills, including systemd, logging, and package management.

Audience

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