Introducing Terraform support for Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion

This article introduces Terraform support for Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion, a fully managed, serverless data collector that delivers real-time log, metric, and trace data to Amazon OpenSearch Service domains and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless collections.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Solution overview: Deploying an OpenSearch Ingestion pipeline with Terraform, along with supporting resources like an Amazon OpenSearch domain, IAM role, CloudWatch log group, and the pipeline configuration.
• Prerequisites: AWS account, Terraform installed, IAM permissions, and awscurl tool.
• Creating a Terraform configuration directory and defining AWS resources in main.tf.
• Creating the resources using Terraform apply.
• Testing the pipeline by sending sample logs and verifying data ingestion.
• Cleaning up resources using Terraform destroy.
• Conclusion: Benefits of using Terraform to deploy OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines and available resources for getting started.