OpenSearch

Arpio replicates OpenSearch domains to your recovery environment when your application is in failover or failover test mode.

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OpenSearch Overview and Setup

Domain Attributes and Translation
Restrictions

Arpio replicates OpenSearch domains to your recovery environment. OpenSearch domains can be expensive, so Arpio only replicates them when your application is in failover or failover test mode.

Arpio supports the following OpenSearch versions:

ElasticSearch 6.8 and above
OpenSearch 1.0.0 and above

OpenSearch Configuration

Data replication

Data replication is initiated during the backup phase. Arpio extracts OpenSearch data using native snapshots to an S3 bucket on the primary site. It enables S3 replication on that primary bucket to copy those snapshots to the recovery site. Arpio adds an additional layer of security from injection attacks to the recovery button with an “write once” bucket and associated Lambda function. The function prevents an object in the "write once" bucket from being updated after creation. Arpio then uses the snapshots in this write-once bucket to populate your recovery indexes during failover.

Enabling Arpio to access OpenSearch data for domains with fine grained access control

If you have fine-grained access control enabled for your domain, Arpio requires access to your OpenSearch domain so it can manage index snapshots and separately snapshot security data (users, roles, mappings, etc.). If you haven’t added that access, you’ll see an Issue similar to this one when we try to backup your domain:

Please add a mapping to the "security_manager" role for "arn:aws:iam::123456654321:role/ArpioPrimaryOSDel-appabc123-us-east-1"

To enable Arpio access to OpenSearch and ElasticSearch 7 domains, take the following steps:

Log into the OpenSearch or ElasticSearch 7 dashboard for your domain
Go to Security > Roles (on the left menu bar) and find the security_manager role
Click the link for the security_manager role > Mapped users tab > “Manage mapping”
Enter the role ARN as a Backend role and click the “Map” button at the bottom of the page
Now go back to the list of roles (Security > Roles on the left menu bar) and find the "manage_snapshots" role
Click the link, then activate the Mapped users tab, and "Manage mapping"
Again, enter the role ARN as a Backend role, and click the "Map" button.

To enable access for ElasticSearch 6.8, do this:

Log into the Kibana portal for the domain
Go to Security > Role Mappings
Select the "security_manager" role.
Click the "Add Backend Role" button
Enter the role ARN provided in the issue
Submit the changes
Go to Security > Role Mappings again
Click the "+" button to add a new role mapping
Select the "manage_snapshots" role from the Role dropdown menu
Click the "Add Backend Role" button and enter the ARN of the role
Submit the changes

It may take OpenSearch a few minutes to update the backend roles internally. If you click "Try Again" and Arpio says you still need to add the roles, wait a few minutes and then click "Try Again" another time.

Setting passwords for replicated OpenSearch users

OpenSearch does not return user passwords or password hashes during snapshotting, so Arpio can’t copy those to the recovery site. Instead you can set up a secret in Secrets Manager to set user passwords for the replicated domains.

This secret should be placed in the recovery region and account. If this secret doesn't already exist on the recovery site Arpio will automatically create one for you
It should have the name /Arpio/OpenSearchDomain/$DOMAIN_NAME$/UserPasswords, where $DOMAIN_NAME$ is the name of the domain in which you want to populate the passwords. For example, if you domain name is "prodlogs", the secret should be named /Arpio/OpenSearchDomain/prodlogs/UserPasswords
The secret should have the value:

{

"user1": "password1",

"user2": "password2",

...etc..

}

Where user1 and user2 are the names of users in the domain, and password1 and password2 are the passwords that should be set for those users on the recovery domain.

Alternatively, when Arpio has finished replicating the domain, you can use the AWS console to set access for the master user, and then log into the domain dashboards and manually set the passwords for those users.

Excluding OpenSearch indexes from backup and recovery

By default, all non-administrative OpenSearch indexes are replicated during a recovery event. If you'd like to exclude some or all of your indexes from Arpio's backup and recovery process, you can use our custom configuration tag. More details on that process can be found here.

Domain Translation

The following tables details how Arpio handles OpenSearch Domain replication and translation in the DR environment.

Attribute	Translation
Resource access policy	For any resource we support, Arpio will update the ARNs and ids in the OpenSearch domain access policy to reference the mirrored resources
CloudWatch LogGroup	The ARNs for any Cloudwatch Log Groups used for log publishing are translated to the corresponding recovery log group ARN
Domain endpoint certificate	Arpio will change the replicated domain’s endpoint certificate ARN to point to the matching certificate in the recovery site.
IAM roles used in OpenSearch security role mappings	Arpio will update the IAM roles in your domain’s security configuration to the corresponding role on the recovery site.
VPC and subnets	If a domain uses a VPC, the VPC and subnet ids are switched to the recovery ids.

Resources automatically discovered and included in recovery points when a domain is selected for replication:

IAM Roles used as backend roles in the OpenSearch domain security configuration
VPC and security groups used in the VPC if the cluster is configured to use a VPC
Resource referenced in the access policy of the domain
If you’ve enabled a custom endpoint for the domain, the certificate used for that custom endpoint is included

Restrictions

The following OpenSearch capabilities are not currently supported by Arpio:

Custom domain plugins (customer-built plugins for specialized indexing)
Cross-cluster searching
Multi-AZ with Standby.
Elasticsearch versions < 6.8
OpenSearch Serverless resources