Hey everyone, Currently when running bin/solr, and therefore when using the Solr Docker image, if you start solr without specifying any options, it will start in Standalone mode. However, many of the tutorials and examples we give are for Solr Cloud. And there are useful features for new users that are not supported in standalone mode, including the new schema-designer UI <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-15277>. I think it would be good for new users to the project to use the generally recommended running mode (cloud) by default.
Clearly this won't be done in 8.x. I think it would be ok to make the switch in Solr 9, but maybe it's something we aim for Solr 10 instead. In the meantime we should probably include a backwards-compatible standalone flag (-l/-standalone) that will start to be used once the default mode is switched. There has been some discussion about deprecating standalone Solr, I want to emphasize this is not at all part of the discussion of this thread. - Houston
