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Install selected OpenSearch plugins on start-up

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, kubernetes, rust

Research direction

The issue identifies OpenSearchCluster.spec.clusterConfig.plugins as the configuration entry point and points to OpenSearch's bundled-plugin documentation; start by tracing that specification and the operator's image and start-up path. Done means selected and dependent plugins can be installed without internet access, with the requested custom plugin and disablement behavior resolved.

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Description

customer-request size/M type/feature-new

Users often need some but not all OpenSearch plugins. It would be optimal if users can choose the desired plugins in the OpenSearchCluster specification, e.g.

---
apiVersion: opensearch.stackable.tech/v1alpha1
kind: OpenSearchCluster
spec:
  clusterConfig:
    plugins:
      - opensearch-alerting
      - opensearch-anomaly-detection
      - opensearch-asynchronous-search
      - opensearch-cross-cluster-replication
      - opensearch-custom-codecs
      - opensearch-flow-framework
      - opensearch-geospatial
      - opensearch-index-management
      - opensearch-job-scheduler
      - opensearch-knn
      - opensearch-ml
      - opensearch-neural-search
      - opensearch-notifications
      - opensearch-notifications-core
      - opensearch-observability
      - opensearch-performance-analyzer
      - opensearch-reports-scheduler
      - opensearch-search-relevance
      - opensearch-security
      - opensearch-security-analytics
      - opensearch-skills
      - opensearch-sql
      - opensearch-system-templates
      - opensearch-ubi
      - prometheus-exporter
      - query-insights
      - repository-s3
      - telemetry-otel

Dependent plugins should be installed automatically, e.g. if the plugin opensearch-index-management is set then the required plugin opensearch-job-scheduler should also be installed.

The installation must not require a connection to the internet. The core plugins and some additional plugins could be already added (but not installed) to the Stackable OpenSearch image, see https://docs.opensearch.org/3.1/install-and-configure/plugins/#downloading-bundled-plugins-for-offline-installation.

Custom plugins could be supported by setting a URL or a path to a mounted volume.

Some plugins can be disabled after installation, others cannot. Therefore, it is not a good solution to just install all plugins in the Dockerfile.

Workaround

A custom image based on the Stackable OpenSearch image must be created where desired plugins can be installed and undesired ones removed.

Dominant language
Rust
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