An example of a redis-sentinel configuration on three nodes, including a testing Python client.

For educational and experimental use only.

Here is the architecture:

       +----+
       | M1 |
       | S1 |
       +----+
          |
+----+    |    +----+
| R2 |----+----| R3 |
| S2 |         | S3 |
+----+         +----+

R denotes a redis-server instance, S denotes redis-sentinel instance, and M is the master.

Configuration files are in the configs directory.

• Virtualbox for running virtual machines
• Vagrant for setting up virtual machines

Tested on Linux.

To create all the three boxes, run

vagrant up

To SSH into the boxes, execute

vagrant ssh redis1
vagrant ssh redis2
vagrant ssh redis3

Then, run sudo -Hs to get root access. To see how failover works, you can stop redis-server by running

systemctl stop redis-server

To stop redis-sentinel, run

systemctl stop redis-sentinel

You can tail -f logs in /var/log/redis to see what is happening.

In test-client, there is a simple Python script that you can use for your experiments. It is based on redis-py.

Copyright (c) 2020 Petr Zemek (s3rvac@gmail.com)

Distributed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more details.