I had just been thinking adding an entry to the FAQ.adoc file about “How to easily start Solr in cloud mode”, so having one less parameter makes sense to me.
> On May 21, 2021, at 4:26 PM, Anshum Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's a great suggestion, Houston. > > Most of our new features, as well as the intended mode of operation by most > users require Solr to run in cloud mode. I believe that defaulting to 'cloud' > mode will make the experience better for majority of Solr users. > > -Anshum > > On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 8:28 AM Houston Putman <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > 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 > > > -- > Anshum Gupta _______________________ Eric Pugh | Founder & CEO | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 | http://www.opensourceconnections.com <http://www.opensourceconnections.com/> | My Free/Busy <http://tinyurl.com/eric-cal> Co-Author: Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server, 3rd Ed <https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/apache-solr-enterprise-search-server-third-edition-raw> This e-mail and all contents, including attachments, is considered to be Company Confidential unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless of whether attachments are marked as such.
