Amazon Web Services is handing over the OpenSearch project to the newly established OpenSearch Software Foundation under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation. This was announced by Nanini Ramani, vice president of search and cloud operations at AWS, at the Open Source Summit Europe in Vienna. The mission of the OpenSearch Software Foundation is to further develop OpenSearch in collaboration with the community, maintainers, and the Foundation’s member organizations.
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OpenSearch aims to gain long-term benefits from the Linux Foundation’s experience and expertise in terms of development, governance, project management, infrastructure and certification. Member organizations of the newly established OpenSearch Software Foundation include Amazon Web Services, SAP and Uber, as well as AVEN, AREIN, Atlassian, Canonical, DigitalOcean and Graylog.
OpenSearch is a part of ElasticSearch and Kibana that AWS launched with others including SAP and Red Hat in 2021 after Elastic put the software under the EL and SSPL licenses. They banned the cloud provider from offering a distribution of the ELK stack.
When asked if now is a good time to hand over to the Linux Foundation, Carl Meadows, senior product manager for OpenSearch at AWS, said that contributions to the project that do not come from AWS have continued over the years and have grown significantly. The project is well received by the community, as there are many points of contact Slack Channel Or Public GitHub repository Built for external developers.
Nandini Ramani said during the keynote address at the Open Source Summit Europe that OpenSearch has been working for a long time to keep the community at the center.
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Nearly 1,000 developers have now contributed to OpenSearch, and the user forum has 6,400 members. According to Randini, OpenSearch has now been downloaded 700 million times. The platform includes OpenSearch Core, the search and analysis engine, OpenSearch Dashboard for visualization, and Data Preparer, which prepares data for further processing.
The aim of moving the project to the Linux Foundation now is to further increase trust in the project and encourage developers and organizations to participate who are reluctant to commit to projects that are primarily based in one company. The Linux Foundation’s executive director, Jim Zemlin, is pleased to be able to provide “a neutral home for the collaborative development of open source search and analytics.”
Gabriele Columbro, General Manager of the Linux Foundation, opens the Open Source Summit Europe in Vienna.
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OpenSearch is not the first fork the Linux Foundation has taken over. The organization recently took over OpenTofu, a fork of infrastructure-as-code tool Terraform, and Valkyrie, a fork of key-value database Redis. Both projects emerged in response to changes in source-available licenses, which are not open source licenses by the Open Source Initiative’s definition.
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