Installing ZooKeeper for SolrCloud
You might know that in order to run SolrCloud, the distributed Solr deployment, you need to have Apache ZooKeeper installed. Zookeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configurations, naming, and provisioning service synchronizations. SolrCloud uses ZooKeeper to synchronize configurations and cluster states to help with leader election and so on. This is why it is crucial to have a highly available and fault-tolerant ZooKeeper installation. If you have a single ZooKeeper instance, and it fails, then your SolrCloud cluster will crash too. So, this recipe will show you how to install ZooKeeper so that it's not a single point of failure in your cluster configuration.
Getting ready
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