Managing leaders when recycling a cluster

2020-08-12 Thread Adam Woods
Hi, We've just recently gone through the process of upgrading Solr the 8.6 and have implemented an automated rolling update mechanism to allow us to more easily make changes to our cluster in the future. Our process for this looks like this: 1. Cluster has 3 nodes. 2. Scale out to 6 nodes. 3. Pro

Re: Managing leaders when recycling a cluster

2020-08-12 Thread Erick Erickson
There’s no particular need to do this unless you have a very large number of leaders on a single node. That functionality was added for a special case where there were 100s of leaders on the same node. The fact that a leader happens to be on a node that’s going away shouldn’t matter at all; as soo

Managing leaders when recycling a cluster

2020-08-11 Thread Adam Woods
Hi, We've just recently gone through the process of upgrading Solr the 8.6 and have implemented an automated rolling update mechanism to allow us to more easily make changes to our cluster in the future. Our process for this looks like this: 1. Cluster has 3 nodes. 2. Scale out to 6 nodes. 3. Pro