Mostly the only thing I recall doing with ZK before starting Solr is creating a node for solr to live in.
On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 8:15 AM David Eric Pugh via dev <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone stand up ZooKeeper first, and then use the Solr CLI to > interact with it, for example, by uploading configsets or maybe setting > some Cluster Properties, before any Solr nodes are started? > I ask because as we have matured the V2 API and added more SolrJ http > apis, there has been some interest in making Solr CLI use HTTP instead of > talking direct to ZooKeeper. > There is also some interesting work in > https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/4320 that moves us in that direction > as well. > I struggle in my direct experience to think about where I have configured > ZooKeeper independent of Solr, and indeed it feels like an anti-pattern > since the Solr APIs are where we have lots of validation etc. And having > ZooKeeper exposed directly to the CLI seems also to have it's own issues > from a security perspective. > So was curious if this is a real need? > Eric > -- http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) https://a.co/d/b2sZLD9 (my fantasy fiction book)
