Opendistro vs OpenSearch, deployment on Kubernetes

[ralph]

the upgrade path is being discussed here:

Upgrade path to OpenSearch

I realize we don’t have a thread on the upgrade path to OpenSearch. For context, I am looking into various ODFE plugins and their potential upgrade path. What I’d like to hear about on this thread is what’s important to you for migration/upgrade? We have ElasticSearch + Kibana (aka ES), Open Distro for Elasticsearch (OSS Elasticsearch+Kibana+OSS plugins, aka ODFE) migrating to OpenSearch + OpenSearch Dashboards + OpenSeach plugins (aka OpenSearch). Some questions I can think of: Should OpenS…

@davidkarlsen

Do you have an operator?

there are some of us who will need/want an operator, the discussion for this is ongoing here:

Kubernetes operator support for the fork

are there any plans to offer a kubernetes / openshift operator which will be compatible with the fork? or, if not offered by the fork, is there any operator by a 3rd party which is known to support it? using ECK does not seem to be an option (both from a license point of view and also from a technical point of view, see: Does elastic eck operators support open distro for Elasticsearch). using an operator gives much more flexibility compared to manually running it (e.g. with helm charts), esp. …