RedisVersion

What is RedisVersion

RedisVersion is a Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRD). It provides a declarative configuration to specify the docker images to be used for Redis database deployed with KubeDB in Kubernetes native way.

When you install KubeDB, RedisVersion crd will be created automatically for every supported Redis versions. You have to specify the name of RedisVersion crd in spec.version field of Redis crd. Then, KubeDB will use the docker images specified in the RedisVersion crd to create your expected database.

Using a separate crd for specifying respective docker images, and pod security policy names allow us to modify the images, and policies independent of KubeDB operator. This will also allow the users to use a custom image for the database.

RedisVersion Specification

As with all other Kubernetes objects, a RedisVersion needs apiVersion, kind, and metadata fields. It also needs a .spec section.

apiVersion: catalog.kubedb.com/v1alpha1
kind: RedisVersion
metadata:
  name: "4.0-v1"
  labels:
    app: kubedb
spec:
  version: "4.0"
  db:
    image: "${KUBEDB_DOCKER_REGISTRY}/redis:4.0-v1"
  exporter:
    image: "${KUBEDB_DOCKER_REGISTRY}/redis_exporter:v0.21.1"
  podSecurityPolicies:
    databasePolicyName: "redis-db"

metadata.name

metadata.name is a required field that specifies the name of the RedisVersion crd. You have to specify this name in spec.version field of Redis crd.

We follow this convention for naming RedisVersion crd:

• Name format: {Original Redis image verion}-{modification tag}

We modify original Redis docker image to support Redis clustering and re-tag the image with v1, v2 etc. modification tag. An image with higher modification tag will have more feature than the images with lower modification tag. Hence, it is recommended to use RedisVersion crd with highest modification tag to enjoy the latest features.

spec.version

spec.version is a required field that specifies the original version of Redis server that has been used to build the docker image specified in spec.db.image field.

spec.deprecated

spec.deprecated is an optional field that specifies whether the docker images specified here is supported by the current KubeDB operator.

The default value of this field is false. If spec.depcrecated is set to true, KubeDB operator will skip processing this CRD object and will add a event to the CRD object specifying that the DB version is deprecated.

spec.db.image

spec.db.image is a required field that specifies the docker image which will be used to create Statefulset by KubeDB operator to create expected Redis server.

spec.exporter.image

spec.exporter.image is a required field that specifies the image which will be used to export Prometheus metrics.

spec.podSecurityPolicies.databasePolicyName

spec.podSecurityPolicies.databasePolicyName is a required field that specifies the name of the pod security policy required to get the database server pod(s) running. To use a user-defined policy, the name of the polict has to be set in spec.podSecurityPolicies and in the list of allowed policy names in KubeDB operator like below:

helm upgrade kubedb-operator appscode/kubedb --namespace kube-system \
  --set additionalPodSecurityPolicies[0]=custom-db-policy

Next Steps

• Learn about Redis crd here.
• Deploy your first Redis server with KubeDB by following the guide here.