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Sovereignty in Open-Source Search and Analytics

  • Evolving licensing models and software forks.
  • Comparative analysis of OpenSearch and Elasticsearch features for the 2025-2026 landscape.
  • Application scenarios: enterprise search, log analytics, SIEM, and observability.

Cluster Architecture

  • Node roles: master, data, coordinating, and ingest.
  • Security configurations: internal TLS, certificate management, and PKI.
  • Preventing split-brain issues via discovery.seed_hosts and minimum master node settings.

Data Ingestion

  • Indexing via REST API, bulk data loading, and mapping definitions.
  • Integrating Beats, Fluent Bit, and Logstash pipelines.
  • Utilizing the OpenTelemetry Collector for trace and metric collection.

Search Operations and Dashboards

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

Index Management

  • Index Lifecycle Management (ILM): rollover, shrinking, and deletion strategies.
  • Designing hot-warm-cold tiered architectures.
  • Optimizing mappings and refining text analysis.

Security and Access Control

  • Implementing RBAC across users, roles, and tenants.
  • Configuring SAML and OpenID Connect authentication.
  • Enforcing document-level security and field-level masking.

Backup and Recovery

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

Requirements

  • Familiarity with search engines and the concept of inverted indexes.
  • Practical experience working with REST APIs and JSON structures.
  • Foundational Linux administration skills, including systemd, log management, and package handling.

Target Audience

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