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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Sovereignty in Open-Source Search and Analytics

  • Elastic license modifications and the emergence of forks.
  • Feature comparison between OpenSearch and Elasticsearch in the 2025-2026 landscape.
  • Key use cases: enterprise search, log analytics, SIEM, and observability.

Cluster Architecture

  • Node roles: master, data, coordinating, and ingest nodes.
  • Security plugin configuration: TLS for internode communication, certificates, and PKI.
  • Preventing split-brain scenarios via discovery.seed_hosts and minimum master node settings.

Data Ingestion

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

Search and Dashboards

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

Index Management

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

Security and Access Control

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

Backup and Recovery

  • Configuring 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.
  • Working experience with REST APIs and JSON structures.
  • Foundational knowledge of Linux administration, including systemd, logging, and package management.

Target Audience

  • Search and log analytics engineers.
  • Teams seeking to replace managed Elasticsearch or Splunk solutions.
  • Security analysts developing sovereign SIEM backends.

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