Is it possible to create a Redis cluster with only 1 master and N slaves/replicas?
I tried it and it failed:
redis-cli --cluster create 127.0.0.1:7000 127.0.0.1:7001 127.0.0.1:7002 --cluster-replicas 2
*** ERROR: Invalid configuration for cluster creation.
*** Redis Cluster requires at least 3 master nodes.
*** This is not possible with 3 nodes and 2 replicas per node.
*** At least 9 nodes are required.
Is there a way to avoid this restriction of minimum 3 masters?
Redis Cluster doesn't support what you are asking for, but there is another H/A Redis mode, "Redis Sentinel":
https://redis.io/docs/manual/sentinel/
This article is worth reading as it illustrates some pros and cons of the two H/A modes:
Redis Sentinel Pros:
With three nodes, you can build up a fully functional Sentinel deployment. (Image 2)
Simplicity - it’s usually simple to maintain and configure.
Highly available, you can build a Redis Sentinel deployment that can survive certain failures without any need for human intervention.
Work as long as a single master instance is available; it can survive the failure of all slave instances.
Multiple slave nodes can replicate data from a master node.
Redis Sentinel Cons:
Not scalable; writes must go to the master, cannot solve the problem of read-write separation.
Slaves may serve reads, but because of asynchronous replication, outdated reads may result.
It doesn’t shard data, so master and slave utilization will be imbalanced.
The slave node is a waste of resources because it does not serve as a backup node.
Redis-Sentinel must be supported by the client. The client holds half of the magic.
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I'm trying to implement redis sentinel in which there are two seperate
environments where master and replica redis will be running. The two
enviroments i.e. Primary and Backup will communicate through internet. Each
environment will have 2 nodes and each node will have one pod which contains
redis+sentinel processes. The following architecture represents the same.
Let's consider a scenario, if Master Redis (Node 1) goes down then sentinel
will invoke fail-over process and make one of the replica as Master Redis.
In such case, suppose Node 3 replica becomes master redis. So far all works
as expected. Now when Node 1 becomes available then its redis will start as
Master, after sentinels communication redis will act as replica. Ideally,
redis should bind on 1.2.3.4:30001 but it is binding on private IP of node
i.e. 192.168.x.x.
My question is why this is happening and as per my understanding sentinel is
responsible for config rewrites and asking Node 1 redis to become replica
redis so how sentinel is taking private IP rather than public IP.
Hopefully, I have properly conveyed my problem to you. if you need any futher
information feel free to comment.
I'm planning to create a high available Redis Cluster. After reading many articles about building Redis cluster i'm confused. So what exactly are
the advantages of a Redis Sentinel Master1 Slave1 Slave2 Cluster? Is it more reliable as a Redis Multinode Sharded Cluster?
the advantages of a Redis Multinode Sharded Cluster? Is it more reliable as a Redis Sentinel Master1 Slave1 Slave2 Cluster?
Further questions to the Redis Sentinel Master1 Slave1 Slave2 Cluster:
when i have 1 Master and the two Slaves and traffic is getting higher and higher so this cluster will be to small how can i make the cluster bigger?
Further questions to the Redis Multinode Sharded Cluster:
why are there so many demos with running a cluster on a single instance but on different ports? That makes no sense to me.
when i have a cluster with 4 masters and 4 replicas, how can an application or a client be sure to write to the cluster? When Master1 and Slave1 are dying but my application is writing always to the IP of Master1 then it will not work anymore. Which solutions are out there to implement a sharded cluster well to make it available for applications to find it with a single ip and port? Keepalived? HAproxy?
when i juse for a 4 master setup with e.g. Keepalived - doesn't that cancel out the different masters?
furthermore i need to understand why the multinode cluster is only for solutions where more data will need to be written as memory is available. Why? For me a multi master setup sounds good to be scaleable.
is it right that the the sharded cluster setup does not support multikey operations when the cluster is not in caching mode?
I'm unsure if these two solutions are the only ones. Hopefully you guys can help me to understand the architectures of Redis. Sorry for so many questions.
I will try to answer some of your questions but first let me describe the different deployment options of Redis.
Redis has three basic deployments: single node, sentinel and cluster.
Single node - The basic solution where you run single process running Redis.
It is not scalable and not highly available.
Redis Sentinel - Deployment that consist of multiple nodes where one is elected as master and the rest are slaves.
It adds high availability since in case of master failure one of the slaves will be automatically promoted to master.
It is not scalable since the master node is the only node that can write data.
You can configure the clients to direct read requests to the slaves, which will take some of the load from the master. However, in this case slaves might return stale data since they replicate the master asynchronously.
Redis Cluster - Deployment that consist of at least 6 nodes (3 masters and 3 slaves). where data is sharded between the masters. It is highly available since in case of master failure, one of his slaves will automatically be promoted to master. It is scalable since you can add more nodes and reshard the data so that the new nodes will take some of the load.
So to answer your questions:
The advantages of Sentinel over Redis Cluster are:
Hardware - You can setup fully working Sentinel deployment with three nodes. Redis Cluster requires at least six nodes.
Simplicity - usually it is easier to maintain and configure.
The advantages of Redis Cluster over Sentinel is that it is scalable.
The decision between that two deployment should be based on your expected load.
If your write load can be managed with a single Redis master node, you can go with Sentinel deployment.
If one node cannot handle your expected load, you must go with Cluster deployment.
Redis Sentinel deployment is not scalable so making the cluster bigger will not improve your performance. The only exception is that adding slaves can improve your read performance (in case you direct read requests to the slaves).
Redis Cluster running on a single node with multiple ports is only for development and demo purposes. In production it is useless.
In Redis Cluster deployment clients should have network access to all nodes (and node only Master1). This is because data is sharded between the masters.
In case client try to write data to Master1 but Master2 is the owner of the data, Master1 will return a MOVE message to the client, guiding it to send the request to Master2.
You cannot have a single HAProxy in front of all Redis nodes.
Same answer as in 5, in the cluster deployment clients should have direct connection to all masters and slaves not through LB or Keepalived.
Not sure I totally understood your question but Redis Cluster is the only solution for Redis that is scalable.
Redis Cluster deployment support multikey operations only when all keys are in the same node. You can use "hash tags" to force multiple keys to be handled by the same master.
Some good links that can help you understand it better:
Description on the different Redis deployment options: https://blog.octo.com/en/what-redis-deployment-do-you-need
Detailed explanation on the architecture of Redis Cluster: https://blog.usejournal.com/first-step-to-redis-cluster-7712e1c31847
I have setup a redis cluster with 1 master node and 2 slave nodes with sentinel running on all 3 nodes.
Prior to this setup, my application was pointing to a single node where redis instance was running.
After the clustering had been set up, where should my application point to?
Thanks.
you need more than one master nodes.
Slave is designed not writble
You can write to the master, and read from both slaves. Of course, you can also read from the master.
In most case, you should NOT write to slave, because even if you config the slave as writable, any write to slave does NOT sync to master or other slaves.
With slave you can achieve data replication. Also, reading from slaves scales out the read performance, if you set up each slave and master on distinct machine. However, you might have consistency problem, i.e. reading inconsistent data from slaves.
Redis cluster and Redis sentinel are two different concepts. If you only looking for HA I would recommend Sentinel, Redis cluster work on top of sharding which is highly distributed in nature. Redis cluster recommend to have minimum 3 masters and equal quantity of slaves for the healthy cluster.
I have a question. Suppose I am using a Redis cluster with 3 shards (with master and slave). I came to know that if a master and its slave fails at the same time Redis Cluster is not able to continue to operate. What happen after that.
Would Redis cluster delete all the other keys from other 2 nodes as well? (When it comes back)
Do we need to manually restart this cluster and can we somehow retain the other keys values (on other nodes)?
How will it behave if I use Azure Redis Cache?
Thanks In Advance
1. Would Redis cluster delete all the other keys from other 2 nodes as well? (When it comes back)
First of all only the operations are blocked not the cluster activity and nothing is done with the data so says the documentation
Redis Cluster failure detection is used to recognize when a master or slave node is no longer reachable by the majority of nodes and then respond by promoting a slave to the role of master. When slave promotion is not possible the cluster is put in an error state to stop receiving queries from clients.
Next regarding if the data gets deleted or not (Under Replication document)
In setups where Redis replication is used, it is strongly advised to have persistence turned on in the master
Which means that only if the persistence was turned off and the master server pair went down then you will loose the data. When the pair comes back up, you will not be able to recover the data. So keep Redis persistence turned on.
2. Do we need to manually restart this cluster and can we somehow retain the other keys values (on other nodes)?
I think the above answer covers it up.
3. How will it behave if I use Azure Redis Cache?
From Azure Redis Cache FAQ
High Availability/SLA: Azure Redis Cache guarantees that a Standard/Premium cache will be available at least 99.9% of the time. To learn more about our SLA, see Azure Redis Cache Pricing. The SLA only covers connectivity to the Cache endpoints. The SLA does not cover protection from data loss. We recommend using the Redis data persistence feature in the Premium tier to increase resiliency against data loss.
So it's kinda their headache
OR
Redis Cluster: If you want to create caches larger than 53 GB or want to shard data across multiple Redis nodes, you can use Redis clustering which is available in the Premium tier. Each node consists of a primary/replica cache pair for high availability. For more information, see How to configure clustering for a Premium Azure Redis Cache.
What is the rationale behind requiring at least 3 ActiveMQ instances and 3 ZooKeeper servers for running master/slave setup with replicated LevelDB storage? If the requirement is imposed by the usage of ZooKeeper which requires at least 3 servers, what is the rationale for ZooKeeper to require at least 3 servers to provide reliability?
Is it for guaranteeing consistency in cases of network partitions (by sacrificing availability on the smaller smaller partition) as in a 2-node primary backup configuration it is impossible distinguish between a failed peer or both nodes being in different network partitions?
Is it for providing tolerance against Byzantine failures where you need 2f+1 nodes to survive f faulty nodes (considering ONLY crash failures requires only f+1 nodes to survive f faults)?
Or is there any other reason?
Thanks!
Zookeeper requires at least 3 servers because of how it elects a new Activemq Master. Zookeeper requires a majority (n/2+1) to elect a new master. If it does not have that majority, no master will be selected and the system will fail. This is the same reason for why you use an odd number of Zookeepers servers. (EG. 3 servers gives you the same failure rate as 4 because of majority, can still only lose 1 server.)
For Activemq, the necessity of at least 3 servers is derived from how the messages are synced, and the fact that when a new master is elected, it requires atleast a quorum of nodes (N/2+1) to be able to identify the latest updates. ActiveMQ will sync messages with 1 slave, and then respond with an OK. It will then sync asynchronously with all other slaves. If a quorum is not present when a node fails, then Zookeeper has no way to distinguish which node is the most currently updated. This is what happens when you have only 2 nodes originally, so at least 3 is recommended.
From ActiveMQ site, under How it Works:
All messaging operations which require a sync to disk will wait for the update to be replicated to a quorum of the nodes before completing. So if you configure the store with replicas="3" then the quorum size is (3/2+1)=2. The master will store the update locally and wait for 1 other slave to store the update before reporting success. Another way to think about it is that store will do synchronous replication to a quorum of the replication nodes and asynchronous replication replication to any additional nodes.
When a new master is elected, you also need at least a quorum of nodes online to be able to find a node with the lastest updates. The node with the lastest updates will become the new master. Therefore, it's recommend that you run with at least 3 replica nodes so that you can take one down without suffering a service outage.