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Open-Source Search and Analytics Sovereignty

  • Understanding Elastic license changes and subsequent 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 nodes.
  • Security plugin configuration: TLS internode communication, certificates, and PKI.
  • Avoiding split-brain scenarios using discovery.seed_hosts and minimum_master_nodes settings.

Data Ingestion

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

Search and Dashboards

  • Query DSL: match, term, range queries, aggregations, and nested fields.
  • Visualizing data and building dashboards in OpenSearch Dashboards.
  • SIEM applications: configuring alert rules and anomaly detection.

Index Management

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

Security and Access Control

  • RBAC implementation involving 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 using Curator or ISM.
  • Restoring specific indices and ensuring cluster-wide disaster recovery (DR).

Requirements

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

Audience

  • Engineers specializing in search and log analytics.
  • Teams seeking to replace managed Elasticsearch or Splunk solutions.
  • Security analysts constructing sovereign SIEM backends.
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