Redisio Cookbook

redisio is a resource-first Sous Chefs cookbook for installing Redis and managing Redis server and Sentinel instances with systemd.

Supported Platforms

• Amazon Linux 2023
• Debian 12 and 13
• Rocky Linux 9
• Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04

See LIMITATIONS.md for package and source-build constraints.

Resources

Preferred resources

• redisio_install
• redisio_server
• redisio_sentinel_instance

Compatibility wrappers

• redisio_configure
• redisio_sentinel

The compatibility wrappers preserve the old aggregate servers and sentinels payload shapes while delegating to the new per-instance resources.

Basic Usage

Install Redis from packages and start one instance

redisio_install 'default' do
  package_install true
end

redisio_server '6379' do
  package_install true
end

Create a named secondary instance

redisio_server 'savetest' do
  package_install true
  port 16_379
  permissions '0640'
  save ['3600 1', '300 100', '60 10000']
  logfile '/var/log/redis/redis-16379.log'
end

Create a Sentinel instance

redisio_sentinel_instance 'cluster' do
  package_install true
  masters [
    {
      master_name: 'master6379',
      master_ip: '127.0.0.1',
      master_port: 6379,
    },
  ]
end

Use the compatibility wrapper

redisio_configure 'default' do
  package_install true
  servers [
    { 'port' => 6379 },
    { 'name' => 'savetest', 'port' => 16_379, 'permissions' => '0640' },
  ]
end

Testing

Run lint and unit tests with:

cookstyle
chef exec rspec --format documentation

Run the default integration suite with:

KITCHEN_LOCAL_YAML=kitchen.dokken.yml kitchen test default-ubuntu-2404 --destroy=always

Additional public API details live in documentation/*.md.