So I finally had some time to play with the new Solr Operator (https://github.com/bloomberg/solr-operator) for a client I got a shiny ZK ensemble and a Solr cluster up and running in a few hours, but not without some learning curve.
If you want to try and happen to be on a Mac, then I wrote up a tutorial that should get you going within 30 minutes :) https://gist.github.com/janhoy/19bd70ab4ecbcc35eeaecfbc63fbbe1c Give it a shot and let me know how it went. I’m sure Bloomberg is happy for feedback on the Operator as well. Jan