good morning everyone. i've got a crowing number of cores that various parts of our application are relying upon. i'm having difficulty figuring out the best way to continue expanding for both sake of scale and convenience.
i need two extra versions of each core due to our demo instance and our development instance. when we had just one or two cores it wasn't the worst thing to have cores like X, demo-X, and dev-X. that has quickly become unnecessarily cumbersome. i've considered moving each instance to its own solr instance, perhaps just throwing it on a different port. for example, production could be x.x.x.x:8983, dev x.x.x.x:8993, and demo x.x.x.x:8938. i'm pretty helpless at this point with zookeeper and/or solrcloud. given the above info, i'd love to hear some quick overview ideas as to the best approach that i can then begin to explore online. thanks for any pointers!