GitHub - hyperspike/valkey-operator: A Kubernetes Operator to deploy and manage Valkey Clusters

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Provision valkey (redis) clusters

Description

This operator creates valkey clusters and makes them available to other services on the k8s cluster

See the following link for more information on available Custom Resource Options: https://doc.crds.dev/github.com/hyperspike/valkey-operator

Getting Started

Prerequisites

  • go version v1.22.0+
  • docker version 17.03+.
  • kubectl version v1.11.3+.
  • Access to a Kubernetes v1.11.3+ cluster.

Quick Start

Deploy kubernetes locally using minikube, and install the controller:

and optionally, turn on TLS and Prometheus:

make quickstart TLS=1 PROMETHEUS=1

To Uninstall

Project Distribution

Vanilla Kubernetes Manifests

To install the valkey-operator, all you need to do is run the following command:

LATEST=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/hyperspike/valkey-operator/releases/latest | jq -cr .tag_name)
curl -sL https://github.com/hyperspike/valkey-operator/releases/download/$LATEST/install.yaml | kubectl create -f -

Helm

LATEST=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/hyperspike/valkey-operator/releases/latest | jq -cr .tag_name)
helm install valkey-operator --namespace valkey-operator-system --create-namespace oci://ghcr.io/hyperspike/valkey-operator --version ${LATEST}-chart

Verifying the container image

LATEST=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/hyperspike/valkey-operator/releases/latest | jq -cr .tag_name)
cosign verify ghcr.io/hyperspike/valkey-operator:$LATEST  --certificate-oidc-issuer https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com --certificate-identity https://github.com/hyperspike/valkey-operator/.github/workflows/image.yaml@refs/tags/$LATEST

Contributing

NOTE: Run make help for more information on all potential make targets

More information can be found via the Kubebuilder Documentation

Spool up a local cluster:

Proxy to the registry on the local cluster:

And deploy the operator:

export REGISTRY=localhost:5000; export VERSION=1; \
    make docker-build; make docker-push; \
    make build-installer; kubectl apply -f dist/install.yaml

License

Copyright 2024.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.