Redis Parameters

Parameter

There 21 parameters in the redis module.

#redis_cluster:        <CLUSTER> # redis cluster name, required identity parameter
#redis_node: 1            <NODE> # redis node sequence number, node int id required
#redis_instances: {}      <NODE> # redis instances definition on this redis node
redis_fs_main: /data              # redis main data mountpoint, `/data` by default
redis_exporter_enabled: true      # install redis exporter on redis nodes?
redis_exporter_port: 9121         # redis exporter listen port, 9121 by default
redis_exporter_options: ''        # cli args and extra options for redis exporter
redis_safeguard: false            # prevent purging running redis instance?
redis_clean: true                 # purging existing redis during init?
redis_rmdata: true                # remove redis data when purging redis server?
redis_mode: standalone            # redis mode: standalone,cluster,sentinel
redis_conf: redis.conf            # redis config template path, except sentinel
redis_bind_address: '0.0.0.0'     # redis bind address, empty string will use host ip
redis_max_memory: 1GB             # max memory used by each redis instance
redis_mem_policy: allkeys-lru     # redis memory eviction policy
redis_password: ''                # redis password, empty string will disable password
redis_rdb_save: ['1200 1']        # redis rdb save directives, disable with empty list
redis_aof_enabled: false          # enable redis append only file?
redis_rename_commands: {}         # rename redis dangerous commands
redis_cluster_replicas: 1         # replica number for one master in redis cluster
redis_sentinel_monitor: []        # sentinel master list, works on sentinel cluster only

REDIS

#redis_cluster:        <CLUSTER> # redis cluster name, required identity parameter
#redis_node: 1            <NODE> # redis node sequence number, node int id required
#redis_instances: {}      <NODE> # redis instances definition on this redis node
redis_fs_main: /data              # redis main data mountpoint, `/data` by default
redis_exporter_enabled: true      # install redis exporter on redis nodes?
redis_exporter_port: 9121         # redis exporter listen port, 9121 by default
redis_exporter_options: ''        # cli args and extra options for redis exporter
redis_safeguard: false            # prevent purging running redis instance?
redis_clean: true                 # purging existing redis during init?
redis_rmdata: true                # remove redis data when purging redis server?
redis_mode: standalone            # redis mode: standalone,cluster,sentinel
redis_conf: redis.conf            # redis config template path, except sentinel
redis_bind_address: '0.0.0.0'     # redis bind address, empty string will use host ip
redis_max_memory: 1GB             # max memory used by each redis instance
redis_mem_policy: allkeys-lru     # redis memory eviction policy
redis_password: ''                # redis password, empty string will disable password
redis_rdb_save: ['1200 1']        # redis rdb save directives, disable with empty list
redis_aof_enabled: false          # enable redis append only file?
redis_rename_commands: {}         # rename redis dangerous commands
redis_cluster_replicas: 1         # replica number for one master in redis cluster
redis_sentinel_monitor: []        # sentinel master list, works on sentinel cluster only

redis_cluster

name: redis_cluster, type: string, level: C

redis cluster name, required identity parameter.

no default value, you have to define it explicitly.

Comply with regexp [a-z][a-z0-9-]*, it is recommended to use the same name as the group name and start with redis-

redis_node

name: redis_node, type: int, level: I

redis node sequence number, unique integer among redis cluster is required

You have to explicitly define the node id for each redis node. integer start from 0 or 1.

redis_instances

name: redis_instances, type: dict, level: I

redis instances definition on this redis node

no default value, you have to define redis instances on each redis node using this parameter explicitly.

Here is an example for a native redis cluster definition

redis-test: # redis native cluster: 3m x 3s
  hosts:
    10.10.10.12: { redis_node: 1 ,redis_instances: { 6379: { } ,6380: { } ,6381: { } } }
    10.10.10.13: { redis_node: 2 ,redis_instances: { 6379: { } ,6380: { } ,6381: { } } }
  vars: { redis_cluster: redis-test ,redis_password: 'redis.test' ,redis_mode: cluster, redis_max_memory: 32MB }

The port number should be unique among the node, and the replica_of in value should be instance member of the same redis cluster.

redis_instances:
    6379: {}
    6380: { replica_of: '10.10.10.13 6379' }
    6381: { replica_of: '10.10.10.13 6379' }

redis_fs_main

name: redis_fs_main, type: path, level: C

redis main data mountpoint, /data by default

default values: /data, and /data/redis will be used as the redis data directory.

redis_exporter_enabled

name: redis_exporter_enabled, type: bool, level: C

install redis exporter on redis nodes?

default value is true, which will launch a redis_exporter on this redis_node

redis_exporter_port

name: redis_exporter_port, type: port, level: C

redis exporter listen port, 9121 by default

default values: 9121

redis_exporter_options

name: redis_exporter_options, type: string, level: C/I

cli args and extra options for redis exporter, will be added to /etc/defaut/redis_exporter.

default value is empty string

redis_safeguard

name: redis_safeguard, type: bool, level: G/C/A

prevent purging running redis instance?

default value is false, if set to true, and redis instance is running, init / remove playbook will abort immediately.

redis_clean

name: redis_clean, type: bool, level: G/C/A

purging existing redis during init?

default value is true, which will remove redis server during redis init or remove.

redis_rmdata

name: redis_rmdata, type: bool, level: G/C/A

remove redis data when purging redis server?

default value is true, which will remove redis rdb / aof along with redis instance.

redis_mode

name: redis_mode, type: enum, level: C

redis mode: standalone,cluster,sentinel

default values: standalone

• standalone: setup redis as standalone (master-slave) mode
• cluster: setup this redis cluster as a redis native cluster
• sentinel: setup redis as sentinel for standalone redis HA

redis_conf

name: redis_conf, type: string, level: C

redis config template path, except sentinel

default values: redis.conf, which is a template file in roles/redis/templates/redis.conf.

If you want to use your own redis config template, you can put it in templates/ directory and set this parameter to the template file name.

Note that redis sentinel are using a different template file, which is roles/redis/templates/redis-sentinel.conf

redis_bind_address

name: redis_bind_address, type: ip, level: C

redis bind address, empty string will use inventory hostname

default values: 0.0.0.0, which will bind to all available IPv4 address on this host

PLEASE bind to intranet IP only in production environment, i.e. set this value to ''

redis_max_memory

name: redis_max_memory, type: size, level: C/I

max memory used by each redis instance, default values: 1GB

redis_mem_policy

name: redis_mem_policy, type: enum, level: C

redis memory eviction policy

default values: allkeys-lru, check redis eviction policy for more details

• noeviction: New values aren’t saved when memory limit is reached. When a database uses replication, this applies to the primary database
• allkeys-lru: Keeps most recently used keys; removes least recently used (LRU) keys
• allkeys-lfu: Keeps frequently used keys; removes least frequently used (LFU) keys
• volatile-lru: Removes least recently used keys with the expire field set to true.
• volatile-lfu: Removes least frequently used keys with the expire field set to true.
• allkeys-random: Randomly removes keys to make space for the new data added.
• volatile-random: Randomly removes keys with expire field set to true.
• volatile-ttl: Removes keys with expire field set to true and the shortest remaining time-to-live (TTL) value.

redis_password

name: redis_password, type: password, level: C/N

redis password, empty string will disable password, which is the default behavior

Note that due to the implementation limitation of redis_exporter, you can only set one redis_password per node. This is usually not a problem, because pigsty does not allow deploying two different redis cluster on the same node.

PLEASE use a strong password in production environment

redis_rdb_save

name: redis_rdb_save, type: string[], level: C

redis rdb save directives, disable with empty list, check redis persist for details.

the default value is ["1200 1"]: dump the dataset to disk every 20 minutes if at least 1 key changed:

redis_aof_enabled

name: redis_aof_enabled, type: bool, level: C

enable redis append only file? default value is false.

redis_rename_commands

name: redis_rename_commands, type: dict, level: C

rename redis dangerous commands, which is a dict of k:v old: new

default values: {}, you can hide dangerous commands like FLUSHDB and FLUSHALL by setting this value, here’s an example:

{
  "keys": "op_keys",
  "flushdb": "op_flushdb",
  "flushall": "op_flushall",
  "config": "op_config"  
}

redis_cluster_replicas

name: redis_cluster_replicas, type: int, level: C

replica number for one master/primary in redis cluster, default values: 1

redis_sentinel_monitor

name: redis_sentinel_monitor, type: master[], level: C

This can only be used when redis_mode is set to sentinel.

List of redis master to be monitored by this sentinel cluster. each master is defined as a dict with name, host, port, password, quorum keys.

redis_sentinel_monitor:  # primary list for redis sentinel, use cls as name, primary ip:port
  - { name: redis-src, host: 10.10.10.45, port: 6379 ,password: redis.src, quorum: 1 }
  - { name: redis-dst, host: 10.10.10.48, port: 6379 ,password: redis.dst, quorum: 1 }

The name and host are mandatory, port, password, quorum are optional, quorum is used to set the quorum for this master, usually large than half of the sentinel instances.