feat: allow an external Redis, with credentials from a secret - #54
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The bundled Redis stays the default and nothing changes for an install that uses it. `currents.redis.host` already pointed elsewhere, but the URI was hardcoded to `redis://<host>:6379`, so the only reachable external Redis was one with no encryption in transit and no credentials. `host`, `readerHost`, `port` and `tls.enabled` now compose the URI, and `connection.secretName` reads it whole from a secret instead. The secret is the path for anything needing an AUTH token: a composed URI is rendered into the pod spec, so a token set that way is readable by anyone who can describe a pod. `REDIS_URI_SLAVE` was the primary's address, so read-only traffic went to the primary. It now follows `readerHost` / `connection.readerKey` when either is set, and falls back to the primary when neither is. Documents what a replacement has to provide, because two of these are only visible under load: the JSON commands the orchestration Lua scripts call, which on ElastiCache means Redis 6.2.6+ or Valkey, and a primary/replica group rather than cluster mode, which rejects the multi-key scripts. Also that auth is an AUTH token in the URI and that IAM auth is not supported. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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participant HelmValues
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HelmValues->>connectionConfigEnv: Provide Redis connection settings
connectionConfigEnv->>KubernetesSecret: Reference primary and reader URI keys
connectionConfigEnv->>CurrentsPod: Set REDIS_URI and REDIS_URI_SLAVE
CurrentsPod->>KubernetesSecret: Resolve referenced URI values
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🟠 Major · Make bundled Redis the actual default, or remove that default claim.
charts/currents/values.yaml:887
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winMake bundled Redis the actual default, or remove that default claim.
redis.enabledisfalse, whilecurrents.redis.hostdefaults to{{ .Release.Name }}-redis-master, the bundled Redis master service. With an emptycurrents.redis.connection.secretName,currents.connectionConfigEnvemits a URI for that service, but the dependency condition prevents the service from being deployed. This leaves a standard install without its configured Redis target. The disabled value predates this change, but this PR adds documentation that states bundled Redis is the default.Set
redis.enabledtotrueif bundled Redis is the supported default. Otherwise, update the documentation and require an external Redis configuration.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@charts/currents/values.yaml`:
- Line 887: Update the redis.enabled default to true so the bundled Redis
dependency is deployed consistently with the default currents.redis.host and
connection configuration. Preserve the existing external Redis override
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`redis.enabled` is false, so the chart deploys no Redis unless asked. The section added in the previous commit said the opposite, and the reviewer was right that it is the documentation and not the default that is wrong: the quickstart already has operators set `redis.enabled: true`, and values.yaml marks it Required. States that Redis is required and neither option is automatic, and that `currents.redis.host` names a service which only exists when the bundled chart is enabled -- setting one without the other points the install at nothing, which was the reviewer's underlying observation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Right, and the documentation is what's wrong rather than the default. Fixed in 5994764.
The section now opens by saying Redis is required and offering the two options explicitly, and calls out the specific trap behind your observation: Not changing the default, deliberately. Flipping |
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Lets an install point at a Redis it doesn't operate — ElastiCache being the case that prompted it — while keeping the bundled Redis as the default. Nothing changes for an install that doesn't set any of this.
Asked by a customer already running ElastiCache in their own infrastructure who wanted to drop one more thing they're responsible for. The hosted service runs on ElastiCache too, so this is about the chart catching up to what's already supported and proven, not new capability.
The gap
currents.redis.hostalready repointed the connection, but_common.tplhardcoded the rest:Scheme, port and credentials fixed. So the only external Redis reachable was one with encryption in transit off and no AUTH token — which is not a configuration worth offering. The application was never the limitation:
getRedisConnectioninpackages/cache/src/redis.tsalready parses host, port, db, password andrediss://out of the URI.Two ways to configure it
Composed, for a Redis with no credentials:
From a secret, which is the path for anything with an AUTH token:
The secret exists because a composed URI is rendered into the pod spec, so a token set that way is readable by anyone who can
describea pod. This mirrors howMONGODB_URIis already handled, so it adds a pattern operators have seen rather than a new one.Also fixed
REDIS_URI_SLAVEwas set to the primary's address, sogetReadOnlyConnectionOptions()sent read traffic to the primary. It now followsreaderHost/connection.readerKeywhen either is set, and falls back to the primary when neither is — unchanged for the bundled Redis, which has no replica.Documented, because two of these only surface under load
docs/eks/dependencies.mdgains a Redis section covering what a replacement must provide:JSON.GET/JSON.SETfrom inside Lua scripts (packages/cache/src/pw.run.cache/v1,run.stats.ts). On ElastiCache that means Redis 6.2.6+ or Valkey. An older engine starts the app and fails spec claiming under load, so the docs say to exercise a real run rather than a health check.Validation
helm lintclean.helm templaterendered for all three paths — default bundled, composed with TLS/reader/custom port, and secret-backed — confirming the default is byte-identical to before and the other two producerediss://…:6380andsecretKeyRefrespectively../scripts/build-docs.shrun, so the docs-check workflow passes.Need help on this PR? Tag
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