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Ritesh Singh
Ritesh Singh

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How to deploy and use Redis in cloud foundry?

I am sort of new to cloud foundry. I have some queries -

  1. Can I use REDIS as a service in Cloud Foundry , if yes , how. Do we need service broker as well for that.
  2. Manifest file for deploying Redis on Cloud foundry in openstack Neutron.
  3. Can I do HA of Redis service in CF.

I have been through these links as well https://github.com/pivotal-cf/cf-redis-release https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/redis-boshrelease

and deployed redis with a dedicated node and broker but not sure how it will work with an app.

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Answers (1)

David Sabeti
David Sabeti

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  1. Yes, you can use Redis as a service in CF, and yes, you'll need to make sure that there is a service broker -- in fact, having a service broker is the definition of something being a CF Service (if you can write a service broker for it, you can use it as a service). Here's an overview of the CF Service Broker API. Once you have your Redis cluster and service broker set up, you'll need to do the following:

    • Register your service broker with cf create-service-broker redis-broker <username> <password> <url to service broker>.
    • Create a service instance: cf create-service redis <redis-plan-name> myRedis
    • Bind your app to the service instance: cf bind-service myApp myRedis

  2. Building a manifest file depends on which Redis release you use. The cloudfoundry-community/redis-boshrelease has a template for generating an openstack manifest. Unfortunately, that release doesn't have a service broker so you can't use that redis as a service in CF. The pivotal-cf/cf-redis-release, on the other hand, does have a service broker. Maybe you can use the Openstack-specific properties from the cloudfoundry-community/redis-boshrelease to make an Openstack manifest for pivotal-cf/cf-redis-release?

  3. I don't know too much about HA Redis. You'll have to get some help from Redis experts, but I do know that there's a piece of software called Sentinel that's meant to get Redis to HA. You should take a look at that and see if you can extend the release to include Sentinel.

Hope that helps!

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