Discussion: Selecting a Redis solution

Last year we had an epic to develop a Redis strategy &557. Inside that epic is an issue about creating a plan per instance #1372 (closed).

In that issue, we decided that the best first step was to gain Kubernetes knowledge and learn how to operate Redis on Kubernetes. We are reaching the end of those projects (rate limiting and registry) and finding that we have to watch these instances in production for some time to understand how they behave. To that end, we need to proceed with a solution for redis-cache on VMs.

Resolving the horizontal scaling problems for redis-cache is our next project and we have already done some research into possible solutions. In order to evaluate our choices, we need to be clear on the goals for the project and agree on the requirements for the solution.