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Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana by retzkek on Monday April 12, 2021 @01:56PM (#26782708)
> they've underestimated the amount of work required to package and distribute a product as complex as Elasticsearch

The bulk of the work thus far has been to strip out the non-OSS components ("X-pack") and the many references to it, nothing to do with packaging, distributing, or even maintaining and developing features.

https://discuss.opendistrocommunity.dev/t/preparing-opensear...

Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana by zo1 on Monday April 12, 2021 @03:04PM (#26783657)
I for one will be happy when those are taken out. So many headaches trying to get bloated Kibana to start as a docker container before realizing that some random x-pack-disable flag needs to be set for it to start without a random error.