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Course Outline
Open-Source Search and Analytics Sovereignty
- Impact of Elastic licensing changes and the rise of forks.
- Feature parity comparison between OpenSearch and Elasticsearch in 2025-2026.
- Key use cases: enterprise search, log analytics, SIEM, and observability.
Cluster Architecture
- Node roles: master, data, coordinating, and ingest.
- Security plugin configuration: internode TLS, certificates, and PKI.
- Preventing split-brain scenarios via discovery.seed_hosts and minimum master node settings.
Data Ingestion
- Indexing via REST API, bulk data loading, and defining mappings.
- Utilizing Beats, Fluent Bit, and Logstash pipelines.
- Implementing OpenTelemetry Collector for traces and metrics.
Search and Dashboards
- Query DSL: match, term, range, aggregations, and nested fields.
- Creating visualizations and dashboards in OpenSearch Dashboards.
- SIEM applications: configuring alert rules and anomaly detection.
Index Management
- Index Lifecycle Management (ILM): rollover, shrinking, and deletion.
- Designing hot-warm-cold architectures.
- Optimizing mappings and text analysis.
Security and Access Control
- Implementing RBAC using users, roles, and tenants.
- Authentication via SAML and OpenID Connect.
- Enforcing document-level security and field masking.
Backup and Recovery
- Configuring snapshot repositories to MinIO, S3, or NFS.
- Automating snapshots with Curator or ISM.
- Restoring specific indices and executing cluster-wide disaster recovery.
Requirements
- Familiarity with search engines and inverted indexes.
- Working knowledge of REST APIs and JSON.
- Foundational Linux administration skills, including systemd, log management, and package handling.
Target Audience
- Search and log analytics professionals.
- Teams migrating away from managed Elasticsearch or Splunk solutions.
- Security analysts developing sovereign SIEM backends.
14 Hours
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