By 2026, the sheer volume of data ingested into OpenSearch makes manual shard tuning and static Index State Management (ISM) unsustainable. We are still operating search clusters using 2021 mindsets - relying on fixed thresholds that don't account for dynamic workloads. This session introduces Intent-Based Operations.

We will explore how to build an autonomous control plane that sits above OpenSearch, translating high-level business intents into real-time cluster reconfigurations. You will learn how to leverage the OpenSearch Performance Analyzer and custom Kubernetes Operators to create a self-healing, self-scaling search infrastructure.

The session includes a live demo of a cluster that autonomously rebalances shards and adjusts its own indexing thread pool in response to a simulated traffic spike, preventing the dreaded cluster status without a single human command.