Managing collection configuration using configs or instance directories
Configs and instance directories are named configuration sets for Solr collections.
The
solrctl
utility includes the config
and
instancedir
commands for managing configuration. Configs and instance
directories refer to the same thing: named configuration sets used by collections, as
specified by the solrctl collection --create -c
<configName>
command.
Although configs and instance directories are functionally identical from the perspective of the Solr server, there are a number of important administrative differences between these two implementations:
Attribute | Config | Instance Directory |
---|---|---|
Security |
|
|
Creation method | Generated from existing configs or instance directories in ZooKeeper using the ConfigSets API. | Manually edited locally and re-uploaded directly to
ZooKeeper using solrctl utility. |
Template support |
|
One standard template. |