Linux Foundation Launches OpenSearch Software Foundation

VIENNA, Sept. 16, 2024 — Today, the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced the launch of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, a community-driven initiative that will support OpenSearch and its search software, which is used by developers around the world to build search, analytics, observability, and vector database applications. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, the OpenSearch Software Foundation will work with community maintainers and developers, as well as founding member organizations, to support the continued growth of OpenSearch.

Established in 2021 and previously hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), OpenSearch has recorded more than 700 million software downloads and participation from thousands of contributors and more than 200 project maintainers. With the launch of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, AWS has transitioned OpenSearch under the Linux Foundation. The OpenSearch Software Foundation will focus on supporting OpenSearch as it continues to be adopted by organizations around the world to power business-critical workloads. As a part of the Linux Foundation family of open source projects, OpenSearch and its community will benefit from deep resources for programming and infrastructure, such as training and professional certification initiatives, product documentation, developer collaboration and release support, and local and global events programs.

The OpenSearch Software Foundation launches with support from premier members AWS, SAP, and Uber and general members Aiven, Aryn, Atlassian, Canonical, DigitalOcean, Eliatra, Graylog, NetApp® Instaclustr, and Portal26. The foundation will support the OpenSearch Project, which has been organized as an open technical project within the Linux Foundation, overseen by a technical steering committee.

“From the beginning, OpenSearch has brought together a fiercely loyal community of users, developers, and partners who recognized that for the project to truly thrive, it required open collaboration with contributions from a diverse set of stakeholders,” said Nandini Ramani, Vice President of Search and Cloud Operations at AWS. “By transferring OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation, we are setting the project and its community up for its next stage of growth. With vendor-neutral governance that invites greater collaboration, along with programming and operational resources to further nurture the community, we look forward to working collaboratively with this new foundation to ensure everyone can continue to benefit from OpenSearch.”

“The Linux Foundation is excited to provide a neutral home for open and collaborative development around open source search and analytics,” said Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation. “Search is something we all rely on every day, for both business and consumer purposes, and we look forward to supporting the OpenSearch community and helping them provide powerful search and analytics tools for organizations and individuals around the world.”

The OpenSearch Software Foundation is dedicated to driving the growth and development of OpenSearch and its open source search and analytics tools. To learn more about OpenSearch, including how to get involved, participate, or become a member of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, please visit the project website, GitHub, and Slack workspace.

“Being a founding member of the new OpenSearch Foundation is a significant milestone for our strategic involvement and for our unified, business-centric, and open SAP Business Technology Platform,” said Michael Ameling, executive vice president and chief product officer, Business Technology Platform, SAP. “With the strong community support and strengthened ability to co-innovate, it is an important element in our observability strategy. We look forward to shaping this future path together with the wide range of our fellow contributors.”

About the Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, OpenChain, OpenSSF, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDX, Zephyr, and more. The Linux Foundation focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

Source: Linux Foundation