Redis

Redis is an advanced key-value cache and store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bitmaps and hyperloglogs.

TL;DR;

# Testing configuration
$ helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
$ helm install my-release bitnami/redis

# Production configuration
$ helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
$ helm install my-release bitnami/redis --values values-production.yaml

Introduction

This chart bootstraps a Redis deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager.

Bitnami charts can be used with Kubeapps for deployment and management of Helm Charts in clusters. This chart has been tested to work with NGINX Ingress, cert-manager, fluentd and Prometheus on top of the BKPR.

Choose between Redis Helm Chart and Redis Cluster Helm Chart

You can choose any of the two Redis Helm charts for deploying a Redis cluster. While Redis Helm Chart will deploy a master-slave cluster using Redis Sentinel, the Redis Cluster Helm Chart will deploy a Redis Cluster topology with sharding. The main features of each chart are the following:

Redis	Redis Cluster
Supports multiple databases	Supports only one database. Better if you have a big dataset
Single write point (single master)	Multiple write points (multiple masters)

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes 1.12+
• Helm 2.12+ or Helm 3.0-beta3+
• PV provisioner support in the underlying infrastructure

Installing the Chart

To install the chart with the release name my-release:

$ helm install my-release bitnami/redis

The command deploys Redis on the Kubernetes cluster in the default configuration. The Parameters section lists the parameters that can be configured during installation.

Tip: List all releases using helm list

Uninstalling the Chart

To uninstall/delete the my-release deployment:

$ helm delete my-release

The command removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and deletes the release.

Parameters

The following table lists the configurable parameters of the Redis chart and their default values.

Parameter	Description	Default
global.imageRegistry	Global Docker image registry	nil
global.imagePullSecrets	Global Docker registry secret names as an array	[] (does not add image pull secrets to deployed pods)
global.storageClass	Global storage class for dynamic provisioning	nil
global.redis.password	Redis password (overrides password)	nil
image.registry	Redis Image registry	docker.io
image.repository	Redis Image name	bitnami/redis
image.tag	Redis Image tag	{TAG_NAME}
image.pullPolicy	Image pull policy	IfNotPresent
image.pullSecrets	Specify docker-registry secret names as an array	nil
nameOverride	String to partially override redis.fullname template with a string (will prepend the release name)	nil
fullnameOverride	String to fully override redis.fullname template with a string	nil
cluster.enabled	Use master-slave topology	true
cluster.slaveCount	Number of slaves	2
existingSecret	Name of existing secret object (for password authentication)	nil
existingSecretPasswordKey	Name of key containing password to be retrieved from the existing secret	nil
usePassword	Use password	true
usePasswordFile	Mount passwords as files instead of environment variables	false
password	Redis password (ignored if existingSecret set)	Randomly generated
configmap	Additional common Redis node configuration (this value is evaluated as a template)	See values.yaml
clusterDomain	Kubernetes DNS Domain name to use	cluster.local
networkPolicy.enabled	Enable NetworkPolicy	false
networkPolicy.allowExternal	Don't require client label for connections	true
networkPolicy.ingressNSMatchLabels	Allow connections from other namespaces	{}
networkPolicy.ingressNSPodMatchLabels	For other namespaces match by pod labels and namespace labels	{}
securityContext.enabled	Enable security context (both redis master and slave pods)	true
securityContext.fsGroup	Group ID for the container (both redis master and slave pods)	1001
securityContext.runAsUser	User ID for the container (both redis master and slave pods)	1001
securityContext.sysctls	Set namespaced sysctls for the container (both redis master and slave pods)	nil
serviceAccount.create	Specifies whether a ServiceAccount should be created	false
serviceAccount.name	The name of the ServiceAccount to create	Generated using the fullname template
rbac.create	Specifies whether RBAC resources should be created	false
rbac.role.rules	Rules to create	[]
metrics.enabled	Start a side-car prometheus exporter	false
metrics.image.registry	Redis exporter image registry	docker.io
metrics.image.repository	Redis exporter image name	bitnami/redis-exporter
metrics.image.tag	Redis exporter image tag	{TAG_NAME}
metrics.image.pullPolicy	Image pull policy	IfNotPresent
metrics.image.pullSecrets	Specify docker-registry secret names as an array	nil
metrics.extraArgs	Extra arguments for the binary; possible values here	{}
metrics.podLabels	Additional labels for Metrics exporter pod	{}
metrics.podAnnotations	Additional annotations for Metrics exporter pod	{}
metrics.resources	Exporter resource requests/limit	Memory: 256Mi, CPU: 100m
metrics.serviceMonitor.enabled	if true, creates a Prometheus Operator ServiceMonitor (also requires metrics.enabled to be true)	false
metrics.serviceMonitor.namespace	Optional namespace which Prometheus is running in	nil
metrics.serviceMonitor.interval	How frequently to scrape metrics (use by default, falling back to Prometheus' default)	nil
metrics.serviceMonitor.selector	Default to kube-prometheus install (CoreOS recommended), but should be set according to Prometheus install	{ prometheus: kube-prometheus }
metrics.service.type	Kubernetes Service type (redis metrics)	ClusterIP
metrics.service.annotations	Annotations for the services to monitor (redis master and redis slave service)	{}
metrics.service.labels	Additional labels for the metrics service	{}
metrics.service.loadBalancerIP	loadBalancerIP if redis metrics service type is LoadBalancer	nil
metrics.priorityClassName	Metrics exporter pod priorityClassName	{}
metrics.prometheusRule.enabled	Set this to true to create prometheusRules for Prometheus operator	false
metrics.prometheusRule.additionalLabels	Additional labels that can be used so prometheusRules will be discovered by Prometheus	{}
metrics.prometheusRule.namespace	namespace where prometheusRules resource should be created	Same namespace as redis
metrics.prometheusRule.rules	rules to be created, check values for an example.	[]
persistence.existingClaim	Provide an existing PersistentVolumeClaim	nil
master.persistence.enabled	Use a PVC to persist data (master node)	true
master.persistence.path	Path to mount the volume at, to use other images	/data
master.persistence.subPath	Subdirectory of the volume to mount at	""
master.persistence.storageClass	Storage class of backing PVC	generic
master.persistence.accessModes	Persistent Volume Access Modes	[ReadWriteOnce]
master.persistence.size	Size of data volume	8Gi
master.persistence.matchLabels	matchLabels persistent volume selector	{}
master.persistence.matchExpressions	matchExpressions persistent volume selector	{}
master.statefulset.updateStrategy	Update strategy for StatefulSet	onDelete
master.statefulset.rollingUpdatePartition	Partition update strategy	nil
master.podLabels	Additional labels for Redis master pod	{}
master.podAnnotations	Additional annotations for Redis master pod	{}
podDisruptionBudget.enabled	Pod Disruption Budget toggle	false
podDisruptionBudget.minAvailable	Minimum available pods	1
podDisruptionBudget.maxUnavailable	Maximum unavailable pods	nil
redisPort	Redis port (in both master and slaves)	6379
tls.enabled	Enable TLS support for replication traffic	false
tls.authClients	Require clients to authenticate or not	true
tls.certificatesSecret	Name of the secret that contains the certificates	nil
tls.certFilename	Certificate filename	nil
tls.certKeyFilename	Certificate key filename	nil
tls.certCAFilename	CA Certificate filename	nil
tls.dhParamsFilename	DH params (in order to support DH based ciphers)	nil
master.command	Redis master entrypoint string. The command redis-server is executed if this is not provided.	/run.sh
master.configmap	Additional Redis configuration for the master nodes (this value is evaluated as a template)	nil
master.disableCommands	Array of Redis commands to disable (master)	["FLUSHDB", "FLUSHALL"]
master.extraFlags	Redis master additional command line flags	[]
master.nodeSelector	Redis master Node labels for pod assignment	{"beta.kubernetes.io/arch": "amd64"}
master.tolerations	Toleration labels for Redis master pod assignment	[]
master.affinity	Affinity settings for Redis master pod assignment	{}
master.schedulerName	Name of an alternate scheduler	nil
master.service.type	Kubernetes Service type (redis master)	ClusterIP
master.service.port	Kubernetes Service port (redis master)	6379
master.service.nodePort	Kubernetes Service nodePort (redis master)	nil
master.service.annotations	annotations for redis master service	{}
master.service.labels	Additional labels for redis master service	{}
master.service.loadBalancerIP	loadBalancerIP if redis master service type is LoadBalancer	nil
master.service.loadBalancerSourceRanges	loadBalancerSourceRanges if redis master service type is LoadBalancer	nil
master.resources	Redis master CPU/Memory resource requests/limits	Memory: 256Mi, CPU: 100m
master.livenessProbe.enabled	Turn on and off liveness probe (redis master pod)	true
master.livenessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Delay before liveness probe is initiated (redis master pod)	30
master.livenessProbe.periodSeconds	How often to perform the probe (redis master pod)	30
master.livenessProbe.timeoutSeconds	When the probe times out (redis master pod)	5
master.livenessProbe.successThreshold	Minimum consecutive successes for the probe to be considered successful after having failed (redis master pod)	1
master.livenessProbe.failureThreshold	Minimum consecutive failures for the probe to be considered failed after having succeeded.	5
master.readinessProbe.enabled	Turn on and off readiness probe (redis master pod)	true
master.readinessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Delay before readiness probe is initiated (redis master pod)	5
master.readinessProbe.periodSeconds	How often to perform the probe (redis master pod)	10
master.readinessProbe.timeoutSeconds	When the probe times out (redis master pod)	1
master.readinessProbe.successThreshold	Minimum consecutive successes for the probe to be considered successful after having failed (redis master pod)	1
master.readinessProbe.failureThreshold	Minimum consecutive failures for the probe to be considered failed after having succeeded.	5
master.priorityClassName	Redis Master pod priorityClassName	{}
volumePermissions.enabled	Enable init container that changes volume permissions in the registry (for cases where the default k8s runAsUser and fsUser values do not work)	false
volumePermissions.image.registry	Init container volume-permissions image registry	docker.io
volumePermissions.image.repository	Init container volume-permissions image name	bitnami/minideb
volumePermissions.image.tag	Init container volume-permissions image tag	buster
volumePermissions.image.pullPolicy	Init container volume-permissions image pull policy	Always
volumePermissions.resources	Init container volume-permissions CPU/Memory resource requests/limits	{}
slave.service.type	Kubernetes Service type (redis slave)	ClusterIP
slave.service.nodePort	Kubernetes Service nodePort (redis slave)	nil
slave.service.annotations	annotations for redis slave service	{}
slave.service.labels	Additional labels for redis slave service	{}
slave.service.port	Kubernetes Service port (redis slave)	6379
slave.service.loadBalancerIP	LoadBalancerIP if Redis slave service type is LoadBalancer	nil
slave.service.loadBalancerSourceRanges	loadBalancerSourceRanges if Redis slave service type is LoadBalancer	nil
slave.command	Redis slave entrypoint array. The docker image's ENTRYPOINT is used if this is not provided.	/run.sh
slave.configmap	Additional Redis configuration for the slave nodes (this value is evaluated as a template)	nil
slave.disableCommands	Array of Redis commands to disable (slave)	[FLUSHDB, FLUSHALL]
slave.extraFlags	Redis slave additional command line flags	[]
slave.livenessProbe.enabled	Turn on and off liveness probe (redis slave pod)	true
slave.livenessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Delay before liveness probe is initiated (redis slave pod)	30
slave.livenessProbe.periodSeconds	How often to perform the probe (redis slave pod)	10
slave.livenessProbe.timeoutSeconds	When the probe times out (redis slave pod)	5
slave.livenessProbe.successThreshold	Minimum consecutive successes for the probe to be considered successful after having failed (redis slave pod)	1
slave.livenessProbe.failureThreshold	Minimum consecutive failures for the probe to be considered failed after having succeeded.	5
slave.readinessProbe.enabled	Turn on and off slave.readiness probe (redis slave pod)	true
slave.readinessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Delay before slave.readiness probe is initiated (redis slave pod)	5
slave.readinessProbe.periodSeconds	How often to perform the probe (redis slave pod)	10
slave.readinessProbe.timeoutSeconds	When the probe times out (redis slave pod)	10
slave.readinessProbe.successThreshold	Minimum consecutive successes for the probe to be considered successful after having failed (redis slave pod)	1
slave.readinessProbe.failureThreshold	Minimum consecutive failures for the probe to be considered failed after having succeeded. (redis slave pod)	5
slave.persistence.enabled	Use a PVC to persist data (slave node)	true
slave.persistence.path	Path to mount the volume at, to use other images	/data
slave.persistence.subPath	Subdirectory of the volume to mount at	""
slave.persistence.storageClass	Storage class of backing PVC	generic
slave.persistence.accessModes	Persistent Volume Access Modes	[ReadWriteOnce]
slave.persistence.size	Size of data volume	8Gi
slave.persistence.matchLabels	matchLabels persistent volume selector	{}
slave.persistence.matchExpressions	matchExpressions persistent volume selector	{}
slave.statefulset.updateStrategy	Update strategy for StatefulSet	onDelete
slave.statefulset.rollingUpdatePartition	Partition update strategy	nil
slave.podLabels	Additional labels for Redis slave pod	master.podLabels
slave.podAnnotations	Additional annotations for Redis slave pod	master.podAnnotations
slave.schedulerName	Name of an alternate scheduler	nil
slave.resources	Redis slave CPU/Memory resource requests/limits	{}
slave.affinity	Enable node/pod affinity for slaves	{}
slave.spreadConstraints	Topology Spread Constraints for Redis slave pod	{}
slave.priorityClassName	Redis Slave pod priorityClassName	{}
sentinel.enabled	Enable sentinel containers	false
sentinel.usePassword	Use password for sentinel containers	true
sentinel.masterSet	Name of the sentinel master set	mymaster
sentinel.initialCheckTimeout	Timeout for querying the redis sentinel service for the active sentinel list	5
sentinel.quorum	Quorum for electing a new master	2
sentinel.downAfterMilliseconds	Timeout for detecting a Redis node is down	60000
sentinel.failoverTimeout	Timeout for performing a election failover	18000
sentinel.parallelSyncs	Number of parallel syncs in the cluster	1
sentinel.port	Redis Sentinel port	26379
sentinel.configmap	Additional Redis configuration for the sentinel nodes (this value is evaluated as a template)	nil
sentinel.staticID	Enable static IDs for sentinel replicas (If disabled IDs will be randomly generated on startup)	false
sentinel.service.type	Kubernetes Service type (redis sentinel)	ClusterIP
sentinel.service.nodePort	Kubernetes Service nodePort (redis sentinel)	nil
sentinel.service.annotations	annotations for redis sentinel service	{}
sentinel.service.labels	Additional labels for redis sentinel service	{}
sentinel.service.redisPort	Kubernetes Service port for Redis read only operations	6379
sentinel.service.sentinelPort	Kubernetes Service port for Redis sentinel	26379
sentinel.service.redisNodePort	Kubernetes Service node port for Redis read only operations	``
sentinel.service.sentinelNodePort	Kubernetes Service node port for Redis sentinel	``
sentinel.service.loadBalancerIP	LoadBalancerIP if Redis sentinel service type is LoadBalancer	nil
sentinel.livenessProbe.enabled	Turn on and off liveness probe (redis sentinel pod)	true
sentinel.livenessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Delay before liveness probe is initiated (redis sentinel pod)	5
sentinel.livenessProbe.periodSeconds	How often to perform the probe (redis sentinel container)	5
sentinel.livenessProbe.timeoutSeconds	When the probe times out (redis sentinel container)	5
sentinel.livenessProbe.successThreshold	Minimum consecutive successes for the probe to be considered successful after having failed (redis sentinel container)	1
sentinel.livenessProbe.failureThreshold	Minimum consecutive failures for the probe to be considered failed after having succeeded.	5
sentinel.readinessProbe.enabled	Turn on and off sentinel.readiness probe (redis sentinel pod)	true
sentinel.readinessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Delay before sentinel.readiness probe is initiated (redis sentinel pod)	5
sentinel.readinessProbe.periodSeconds	How often to perform the probe (redis sentinel pod)	5
sentinel.readinessProbe.timeoutSeconds	When the probe times out (redis sentinel container)	1
sentinel.readinessProbe.successThreshold	Minimum consecutive successes for the probe to be considered successful after having failed (redis sentinel container)	1
sentinel.readinessProbe.failureThreshold	Minimum consecutive failures for the probe to be considered failed after having succeeded. (redis sentinel container)	5
sentinel.resources	Redis sentinel CPU/Memory resource requests/limits	{}
sentinel.image.registry	Redis Sentinel Image registry	docker.io
sentinel.image.repository	Redis Sentinel Image name	bitnami/redis-sentinel
sentinel.image.tag	Redis Sentinel Image tag	{TAG_NAME}
sentinel.image.pullPolicy	Image pull policy	IfNotPresent
sentinel.image.pullSecrets	Specify docker-registry secret names as an array	nil
sysctlImage.enabled	Enable an init container to modify Kernel settings	false
sysctlImage.command	sysctlImage command to execute	[]
sysctlImage.registry	sysctlImage Init container registry	docker.io
sysctlImage.repository	sysctlImage Init container name	bitnami/minideb
sysctlImage.tag	sysctlImage Init container tag	buster
sysctlImage.pullPolicy	sysctlImage Init container pull policy	Always
sysctlImage.mountHostSys	Mount the host /sys folder to /host-sys	false
sysctlImage.resources	sysctlImage Init container CPU/Memory resource requests/limits	{}
podSecurityPolicy.create	Specifies whether a PodSecurityPolicy should be created	false

Specify each parameter using the --set key=value[,key=value] argument to helm install. For example,

$ helm install my-release \
  --set password=secretpassword \
    bitnami/redis

The above command sets the Redis server password to secretpassword.

Alternatively, a YAML file that specifies the values for the parameters can be provided while installing the chart. For example,

$ helm install my-release -f values.yaml bitnami/redis

Tip: You can use the default values.yaml

Note for minikube users: Current versions of minikube (v0.24.1 at the time of writing) provision hostPath persistent volumes that are only writable by root. Using chart defaults cause pod failure for the Redis pod as it attempts to write to the /bitnami directory. Consider installing Redis with --set persistence.enabled=false. See minikube issue 1990 for more information.

Configuration and installation details

Rolling VS Immutable tags

It is strongly recommended to use immutable tags in a production environment. This ensures your deployment does not change automatically if the same tag is updated with a different image.

Bitnami will release a new chart updating its containers if a new version of the main container, significant changes, or critical vulnerabilities exist.

Production configuration

This chart includes a values-production.yaml file where you can find some parameters oriented to production configuration in comparison to the regular values.yaml. You can use this file instead of the default one.

• Number of slaves:

- cluster.slaveCount: 2
+ cluster.slaveCount: 3

• Enable NetworkPolicy:

- networkPolicy.enabled: false
+ networkPolicy.enabled: true

• Start a side-car prometheus exporter:

- metrics.enabled: false
+ metrics.enabled: true

Change Redis version

To modify the Redis version used in this chart you can specify a valid image tag using the image.tag parameter. For example, image.tag=X.Y.Z. This approach is also applicable to other images like exporters.

Cluster topologies

Default: Master-Slave

When installing the chart with cluster.enabled=true, it will deploy a Redis master StatefulSet (only one master node allowed) and a Redis slave StatefulSet. The slaves will be read-replicas of the master. Two services will be exposed:

• Redis Master service: Points to the master, where read-write operations can be performed
• Redis Slave service: Points to the slaves, where only read operations are allowed.

In case the master crashes, the slaves will wait until the master node is respawned again by the Kubernetes Controller Manager.

Master-Slave with Sentinel

When installing the chart with cluster.enabled=true and sentinel.enabled=true, it will deploy a Redis master StatefulSet (only one master allowed) and a Redis slave StatefulSet. In this case, the pods will contain en extra container with Redis Sentinel. This container will form a cluster of Redis Sentinel nodes, which will promote a new master in case the actual one fails. In addition to this, only one service is exposed:

• Redis service: Exposes port 6379 for Redis read-only operations and port 26379 for accesing Redis Sentinel.

For read-only operations, access the service using port 6379. For write operations, it's necessary to access the Redis Sentinel cluster and query the current master using the command below (using redis-cli or similar:

SENTINEL get-master-addr-by-name <name of your MasterSet. Example: mymaster>

This command will return the address of the current master, which can be accessed from inside the cluster.

In case the current master crashes, the Sentinel containers will elect a new master node.

Using password file

To use a password file for Redis you need to create a secret containing the password.

NOTE: It is important that the file with the password must be called redis-password

And then deploy the Helm Chart using the secret name as parameter:

usePassword=true
usePasswordFile=true
existingSecret=redis-password-file
sentinels.enabled=true
metrics.enabled=true

Securing traffic using TLS

TLS support can be enabled in the chart by specifying the tls. parameters while creating a release. The following parameters should be configured to properly enable the TLS support in the chart:

• tls.enabled: Enable TLS support. Defaults to false
• tls.certificatesSecret: Name of the secret that contains the certificates. No defaults.
• tls.certFilename: Certificate filename. No defaults.
• tls.certKeyFilename: Certificate key filename. No defaults.
• tls.certCAFilename: CA Certificate filename. No defaults.

For example:

First, create the secret with the cetificates files:

kubectl create secret generic certificates-tls-secret --from-file=./cert.pem --from-file=./cert.key --from-file=./ca.pem

Then, use the following parameters:

tls.enabled="true"
tls.certificatesSecret="certificates-tls-secret"
tls.certFilename="cert.pem"
tls.certKeyFilename="cert.key"
tls.certCAFilename="ca.pem"

Note TLS and Prometheus Metrics: Current version of Redis Metrics Exporter (v1.6.1 at the time of writing) does not fully support the use of TLS. By enabling both features, the metric reporting pod is likely to not work as expected. See Redis Metrics Exporter issue 387 for more information.

Metrics

The chart optionally can start a metrics exporter for prometheus. The metrics endpoint (port 9121) is exposed in the service. Metrics can be scraped from within the cluster using something similar as the described in the example Prometheus scrape configuration. If metrics are to be scraped from outside the cluster, the Kubernetes API proxy can be utilized to access the endpoint.

Host Kernel Settings

Redis may require some changes in the kernel of the host machine to work as expected, in particular increasing the somaxconn value and disabling transparent huge pages. To do so, you can set up a privileged initContainer with the sysctlImage config values, for example:

sysctlImage:
  enabled: true
  mountHostSys: true
  command:
    - /bin/sh
    - -c
    - |-
      install_packages procps
      sysctl -w net.core.somaxconn=10000
      echo never > /host-sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled

Alternatively, for Kubernetes 1.12+ you can set securityContext.sysctls which will configure sysctls for master and slave pods. Example:

securityContext:
  sysctls:
  - name: net.core.somaxconn
    value: "10000"

Note that this will not disable transparent huge tables.

Persistence

By default, the chart mounts a Persistent Volume at the /data path. The volume is created using dynamic volume provisioning. If a Persistent Volume Claim already exists, specify it during installation.

Existing PersistentVolumeClaim

1. Create the PersistentVolume
2. Create the PersistentVolumeClaim
3. Install the chart

$ helm install my-release --set persistence.existingClaim=PVC_NAME bitnami/redis

NetworkPolicy

To enable network policy for Redis, install a networking plugin that implements the Kubernetes NetworkPolicy spec, and set networkPolicy.enabled to true.

For Kubernetes v1.5 & v1.6, you must also turn on NetworkPolicy by setting the DefaultDeny namespace annotation. Note: this will enforce policy for all pods in the namespace:

kubectl annotate namespace default "net.beta.kubernetes.io/network-policy={\"ingress\":{\"isolation\":\"DefaultDeny\"}}"

With NetworkPolicy enabled, only pods with the generated client label will be able to connect to Redis. This label will be displayed in the output after a successful install.

With networkPolicy.ingressNSMatchLabels pods from other namespaces can connect to redis. Set networkPolicy.ingressNSPodMatchLabels to match pod labels in matched namespace. For example, for a namespace labeled redis=external and pods in that namespace labeled redis-client=true the fields should be set:

networkPolicy:
  enabled: true
  ingressNSMatchLabels:
    redis: external
  ingressNSPodMatchLabels:
    redis-client: true

Upgrading an existing Release to a new major version

A major chart version change (like v1.2.3 -> v2.0.0) indicates that there is an incompatible breaking change needing manual actions.

To 10.0.0

For releases with usePassword: true, the value sentinel.usePassword controls whether the password authentication also applies to the sentinel port. This defaults to true for a secure configuration, however it is possible to disable to account for the following cases:

• Using a version of redis-sentinel prior to 5.0.1 where the authentication feature was introduced.
• Where redis clients need to be updated to support sentinel authentication.

If using a master/slave topology, or with usePassword: false, no action is required.

To 8.0.18

For releases with metrics.enabled: true the default tag for the exporter image is now v1.x.x. This introduces many changes including metrics names. You'll want to use this dashboard now. Please see the redis_exporter github page for more details.

To 7.0.0

This version causes a change in the Redis Master StatefulSet definition, so the command helm upgrade would not work out of the box. As an alternative, one of the following could be done:

• Recommended: Create a clone of the Redis Master PVC (for example, using projects like this one). Then launch a fresh release reusing this cloned PVC.

helm install my-release bitnami/redis --set persistence.existingClaim=<NEW PVC>

• Alternative (not recommended, do at your own risk): helm delete --purge does not remove the PVC assigned to the Redis Master StatefulSet. As a consequence, the following commands can be done to upgrade the release

helm delete --purge <RELEASE>
helm install <RELEASE> bitnami/redis

Previous versions of the chart were not using persistence in the slaves, so this upgrade would add it to them. Another important change is that no values are inherited from master to slaves. For example, in 6.0.0 slaves.readinessProbe.periodSeconds, if empty, would be set to master.readinessProbe.periodSeconds. This approach lacked transparency and was difficult to maintain. From now on, all the slave parameters must be configured just as it is done with the masters.

Some values have changed as well:

• master.port and slave.port have been changed to redisPort (same value for both master and slaves)
• master.securityContext and slave.securityContext have been changed to securityContext(same values for both master and slaves)

By default, the upgrade will not change the cluster topology. In case you want to use Redis Sentinel, you must explicitly set sentinel.enabled to true.

To 6.0.0

Previous versions of the chart were using an init-container to change the permissions of the volumes. This was done in case the securityContext directive in the template was not enough for that (for example, with cephFS). In this new version of the chart, this container is disabled by default (which should not affect most of the deployments). If your installation still requires that init container, execute helm upgrade with the --set volumePermissions.enabled=true.

To 5.0.0

The default image in this release may be switched out for any image containing the redis-server and redis-cli binaries. If redis-server is not the default image ENTRYPOINT, master.command must be specified.

Breaking changes

• master.args and slave.args are removed. Use master.command or slave.command instead in order to override the image entrypoint, or master.extraFlags to pass additional flags to redis-server.
• disableCommands is now interpreted as an array of strings instead of a string of comma separated values.
• master.persistence.path now defaults to /data.

4.0.0

This version removes the chart label from the spec.selector.matchLabels which is immutable since StatefulSet apps/v1beta2. It has been inadvertently added, causing any subsequent upgrade to fail. See helm/charts#7726.

It also fixes helm/charts#7726 where a deployment extensions/v1beta1 can not be upgraded if spec.selector is not explicitly set.

Finally, it fixes helm/charts#7803 by removing mutable labels in spec.VolumeClaimTemplate.metadata.labels so that it is upgradable.

In order to upgrade, delete the Redis StatefulSet before upgrading:

$ kubectl delete statefulsets.apps --cascade=false my-release-redis-master

And edit the Redis slave (and metrics if enabled) deployment:

kubectl patch deployments my-release-redis-slave --type=json -p='[{"op": "remove", "path": "/spec/selector/matchLabels/chart"}]'
kubectl patch deployments my-release-redis-metrics --type=json -p='[{"op": "remove", "path": "/spec/selector/matchLabels/chart"}]'

Notable changes

9.0.0

The metrics exporter has been changed from a separate deployment to a sidecar container, due to the latest changes in the Redis exporter code. Check the official page for more information. The metrics container image was changed from oliver006/redis_exporter to bitnami/redis-exporter (Bitnami's maintained package of oliver006/redis_exporter).

7.0.0

In order to improve the performance in case of slave failure, we added persistence to the read-only slaves. That means that we moved from Deployment to StatefulSets. This should not affect upgrades from previous versions of the chart, as the deployments did not contain any persistence at all.

This version also allows enabling Redis Sentinel containers inside of the Redis Pods (feature disabled by default). In case the master crashes, a new Redis node will be elected as master. In order to query the current master (no redis master service is exposed), you need to query first the Sentinel cluster. Find more information in this section.