I completely agree, there should be a way to overwrite an existing configSet.
Looks like https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-10391 already exists, so the work could be tracked there. On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:36 PM Tomás Fernández Löbbe < tomasflo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was in the same situation recently. I think it would be nice to have the > configset UPLOAD command be able to override the existing configset instead > of just fail (with a parameter such as override=true or something). We need > to be careful with the trusted/unstrusted flag there, but that should be > possible. > > > If we can’t modify the configset wholesale this way, is it possible to > create a new configset and swap the old collection to it? > You can create a new one and then call MODIFYCOLLECTION on the collection > that uses it: > > https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/8_6/collection-management.html#modifycollection-parameters > . > I've never used that though. > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 7:26 AM Carroll, Michael (ELS-PHI) < > m.carr...@elsevier.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am running SolrCloud in Kubernetes with Solr version 8.5.2. > > > > Is it possible to update a configset being used by a collection using a > > SolrCloud API directly? I know that this is possible using the zkcli and > a > > collection RELOAD. We essentially want to be able to checkout our > configset > > from source control, and then replace everything in the active configset > in > > SolrCloud (other than the schema.xml). > > > > We have a couple of custom plugins that use config files that reside in > > the configset, and we don’t want to have to rebuild the collection or > > access zookeeper directly if we don’t have to. If we can’t modify the > > configset wholesale this way, is it possible to create a new configset > and > > swap the old collection to it? > > > > Best, > > Michael Carroll > > >
