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]> 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
