What is Redis Sentinel?

Redis Sentinel provides high availability for Redis. In practical terms this means that using Sentinel you can create a Redis deployment that resists without human intervention to certain kind of failures.

Redis Sentinel also provides other collateral tasks such as monitoring, notifications and acts as a configuration provider for clients.

redis.io

TL;DR;

$ docker run --name redis-sentinel -e REDIS_MASTER_HOST=redis bitnami/redis-sentinel:latest

Docker Compose

$ curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-redis-sentinel/master/docker-compose.yml > docker-compose.yml
$ docker-compose up -d

Why use Bitnami Images?

• Bitnami closely tracks upstream source changes and promptly publishes new versions of this image using our automated systems.
• With Bitnami images the latest bug fixes and features are available as soon as possible.
• Bitnami containers, virtual machines and cloud images use the same components and configuration approach - making it easy to switch between formats based on your project needs.
• Bitnami images are built on CircleCI and automatically pushed to the Docker Hub.
• All our images are based on minideb a minimalist Debian based container image which gives you a small base container image and the familiarity of a leading linux distribution.

Why use a non-root container?

Non-root container images add an extra layer of security and are generally recommended for production environments. However, because they run as a non-root user, privileged tasks are typically off-limits. Learn more about non-root containers in our docs.

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

NOTE: Debian 8 images have been deprecated in favor of Debian 9 images. Bitnami will not longer publish new Docker images based on Debian 8.

Learn more about the Bitnami tagging policy and the difference between rolling tags and immutable tags in our documentation page.

• 4.0-ol-7, 4.0.11-ol-7-r31 (4.0/ol-7/Dockerfile)
• 4.0-debian-9, 4.0.11-debian-9-r33, 4.0, 4.0.11, 4.0.11-r33, latest (4.0/debian-9/Dockerfile)

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Get this image

The recommended way to get the Bitnami Redis Sentinel Docker Image is to pull the prebuilt image from the Docker Hub Registry.

$ docker pull bitnami/redis-sentinel:latest

To use a specific version, you can pull a versioned tag. You can view the list of available versions in the Docker Hub Registry.

$ docker pull bitnami/redis-sentinel:[TAG]

If you wish, you can also build the image yourself.

$ docker build -t bitnami/redis-sentinel:latest https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-redis-sentinel.git

Connecting to other containers

Using Docker container networking, a Redis server running inside a container can easily be accessed by your application containers.

Containers attached to the same network can communicate with each other using the container name as the hostname.

Using the Command Line

In this example, we will create a Redis Sentinel instance that will monitor a Redis instance that is running on the same docker network.

Step 1: Create a network

$ docker network create app-tier --driver bridge

Step 2: Launch the Redis instance

Use the --network app-tier argument to the docker run command to attach the Redis container to the app-tier network.

$ docker run -d --name redis-server \
    -e ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes \
    --network app-tier \
    bitnami/redis:latest

Step 3: Launch your Redis Sentinel instance

Finally we create a new container instance to launch the Redis client and connect to the server created in the previous step:

$ docker run -it --rm \
    -e REDIS_MASTER_HOST=redis \
    --network app-tier \
    bitnami/redis-sentinel:latest

Using Docker Compose

When not specified, Docker Compose automatically sets up a new network and attaches all deployed services to that network. However, we will explicitly define a new bridge network named app-tier. In this example we assume that you want to connect to the Redis server from your own custom application image which is identified in the following snippet by the service name myapp.

version: '2'

networks:
  app-tier:
    driver: bridge

services:
  redis:
    image: 'bitnami/redis:latest'
    environment:
      - ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes
    networks:
      - app-tier
  redis-sentinel:
    image: 'bitnami/redis-sentinel:latest'
    environment:
      - REDIS_MASTER_HOST=redis
    ports:
      - '26379:26379'
    networks:
      - app-tier

Launch the containers using:

$ docker-compose up -d

Configuration

Configuration file

The image looks for configurations in /bitnami/redis-sentinel/conf/. You can mount a volume at /bitnami and copy/edit the configurations in the /path/to/redis-persistence/redis/conf/. The default configurations will be populated to the conf/ directory if it's empty.

Step 1: Run the Redis Sentinel image

Run the Redis Sentinel image, mounting a directory from your host.

$ docker run --name redis-sentinel \
    -e REDIS_MASTER_HOST=redis \
    -v /path/to/redis-sentinel/persistence:/bitnami \
    bitnami/redis-sentinel:latest

or using Docker Compose:

version: '2'

services:
  redis-sentinel:
    image: 'bitnami/redis-sentinel:latest'
    environment:
      - REDIS_MASTER_HOST=redis
    ports:
      - '26379:26379'
    volumes:
      - /path/to/redis-persistence:/bitnami

Step 2: Edit the configuration

Edit the configuration on your host using your favorite editor.

$ vi /path/to/redis-persistence/redis/conf/redis.conf

Step 3: Restart Redis

After changing the configuration, restart your Redis container for changes to take effect.

$ docker restart redis

or using Docker Compose:

$ docker-compose restart redis

Refer to the Redis configuration manual for the complete list of configuration options.

Logging

The Bitnami Redis Sentinel Docker Image sends the container logs to the stdout. To view the logs:

$ docker logs redis

or using Docker Compose:

$ docker-compose logs redis

You can configure the containers logging driver using the --log-driver option if you wish to consume the container logs differently. In the default configuration docker uses the json-file driver.

Maintenance

Upgrade this image

Bitnami provides up-to-date versions of Redis Sentinel, including security patches, soon after they are made upstream. We recommend that you follow these steps to upgrade your container.

Step 1: Get the updated image

$ docker pull bitnami/redis-sentinel:latest

or if you're using Docker Compose, update the value of the image property to bitnami/redis-sentinel:latest.

Step 2: Stop and backup the currently running container

Stop the currently running container using the command

$ docker stop redis

or using Docker Compose:

$ docker-compose stop redis

Next, take a snapshot of the persistent volume /path/to/redis-persistence using:

$ rsync -a /path/to/redis-persistence /path/to/redis-persistence.bkp.$(date +%Y%m%d-%H.%M.%S)

Step 3: Remove the currently running container

$ docker rm -v redis

or using Docker Compose:

$ docker-compose rm -v redis

Step 4: Run the new image

Re-create your container from the new image.

$ docker run --name redis bitnami/redis-sentinel:latest

or using Docker Compose:

$ docker-compose up redis

Notable Changes

4.0.10-r25

• The Redis sentinel container has been migrated to a non-root container approach. Previously the container run as root user and the redis daemon was started as redis user. From now own, both the container and the redis daemon run as user 1001. As a consequence, the configuration files are writable by the user running the redis process. You can revert this behavior by changing USER 1001 to USER root in the Dockerfile.

Contributing

We'd love for you to contribute to this container. You can request new features by creating an issue, or submit a pull request with your contribution.

Issues

If you encountered a problem running this container, you can file an issue. For us to provide better support, be sure to include the following information in your issue:

• Host OS and version
• Docker version (docker version)
• Output of docker info
• Version of this container (echo $BITNAMI_IMAGE_VERSION inside the container)
• The command you used to run the container, and any relevant output you saw (masking any sensitive information)

License

Copyright (c) 2018 Bitnami

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.