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feat(redis): run Sentinel on the same image as the Redis pods - #4831

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What this PR does

The Redis application pins its Sentinels to redis:6.2.6-alpine (packages/apps/redis/templates/redisfailover.yaml), while the data pods run the version selected by version (redis:8.4.0 for v8, redis:7.4.7 for v7). The pin was added in fde96dd so that the freshworks-oss operator's new compiled-in default (redis:7.2.4-alpine) could not move the Sentinels silently on upgrade, and its comment asks for the bump to be made as a deliberate, separate change. This is that change.

Redis 6.2 is end of life, and today every instance runs a Sentinel one or two major versions behind the Redis it monitors. With this change spec.sentinel.image is rendered from the same files/versions.yaml entry as spec.redis.image, so a v8 instance runs Redis and Sentinel on redis:8.4.0, and a v7 instance on redis:7.4.7. Nodes then pull one engine image per instance instead of two.

The rollback concern behind the original pin was dump.rdb compatibility. It does not apply to Sentinel: a Sentinel pod stores no RDB or AOF, only a sentinel.conf on an emptyDir that the operator's sentinel-config-copy init container rewrites from the operator ConfigMap on every pod start. Rolling back the chart therefore starts the older Sentinel image from a clean config. The image stays explicit in the rendered RedisFailover, so an operator upgrade still cannot move it.

Changes:

  • templates/redisfailover.yaml: spec.sentinel.image uses redis.versionMap, with the comment rewritten to say why it is pinned and why a rollback is safe.
  • values.yaml and hack/update-versions.sh: the version description says that Redis and Sentinel run the same image (update-versions.sh rewrites that line on make update, so it carries the same text). README.md, values.schema.json, api/apps/v1alpha1/redis/types.go and packages/system/redis-rd/cozyrds/redis.yaml are the make generate output for that description.
  • tests/sentinel_image_test.yaml: new helm-unittest suite; it asserts that the Sentinel and Redis images share the major version for v8 and v7. The patterns pin the major version only, so a patch bump in files/versions.yaml needs no test change.
  • hack/e2e-chainsaw/redis/chainsaw-test.yaml: comment only. It described the Sentinel container's timeout as busybox (exit 143); the Sentinel now runs the Debian-based image with coreutils (exit 124). The checks only read "non-zero", so behaviour is unchanged.

Upgrade behaviour: on the first reconcile after the upgrade, every Redis instance rolls its Sentinel Deployment once (the operator does not set a strategy, so the default maxSurge: 1, maxUnavailable: 0 applies to 3 replicas). A new Sentinel pod starts from the initial config, the operator points it at the current master (NewSentinelMonitor, which also sets auth-pass), and only then does it pass the readiness probe that lets the next old pod go. The data pods are not touched.

Not changed: Harbor's Redis (packages/system/harbor/templates/redis.yaml) keeps both images on redis:6.2.6-alpine. Its data pods are PVC-backed, so the rollback concern still applies there and it needs its own decision.

Testing done:

  • make generate in packages/apps/redis: regenerated files committed; a second run leaves no diff.
  • make test in packages/apps/redis (helm-unittest v1.1.2): 50 passed. With the template change reverted, the 2 new tests fail and the other 48 pass.
  • helm template with version=v8 and version=v7: spec.sentinel.image and spec.redis.image are both redis:8.4.0 and both redis:7.4.7 respectively.
  • helm lint reports the same two errors as on main (icon URL, cozy-lib not declared as a dependency), so nothing new.
  • I checked the operator's Sentinel command set (SENTINEL REMOVE/MONITOR/SET auth-pass/SET down-after-milliseconds/RESET/CKQUORUM/MASTER, INFO sentinel) against a Redis 8.6.2 Sentinel locally. It behaves the same as on 6.2. I have not run the e2e suite. On a Cozystack v1.6.4 cluster we run Redis 8.4.0 data pods with 6.2.6 Sentinels today, but not this exact chart.

Backwards compatibility: no API change. Existing instances roll their Sentinels once, as described above. Rolling the chart back rolls the Sentinels back to redis:6.2.6-alpine with a fresh config.

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Not a UI change.

Downstream repositories

Trigger map walked against the diff: the only user-visible text change is the version description in values.yaml/README.md. redis is in the website Makefile APPS list, so the release bot regenerates its page. No field, enum, default or name changes, so terraform-provider-cozystack is not affected.

Release note

feat(redis): Sentinel pods now run the same Redis image as the data pods (redis:8.4.0 for v8, redis:7.4.7 for v7) instead of the end-of-life redis:6.2.6-alpine. Existing instances roll their Sentinels once on upgrade; data pods are not restarted.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Redis Sentinel now uses the image selected by the Redis version setting, keeping Sentinel and Redis pods on the same major-version image.
  • Tests
    • Added checks confirming Sentinel and Redis images match with the default version and when Redis 7 is selected.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified that Redis and Sentinel pods use the same image when choosing a Redis version.

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The Redis chart now uses its version-mapped image for Sentinel pods and Redis data pods. Helm tests check image matching for the default version and v7. Version descriptions and an e2e test comment reflect the shared image.

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Redis image alignment

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Shared image version contract
api/apps/v1alpha1/redis/types.go, packages/apps/redis/README.md, packages/apps/redis/hack/update-versions.sh, packages/apps/redis/values.schema.json, packages/apps/redis/values.yaml, packages/system/redis-rd/cozyrds/redis.yaml, hack/e2e-chainsaw/redis/chainsaw-test.yaml
Version descriptions now state that Redis and Sentinel pods use the same image. The e2e test comment describes the shared Debian-based image and timeout behavior.
Image selection and validation
packages/apps/redis/templates/redisfailover.yaml, packages/apps/redis/tests/sentinel_image_test.yaml
The template uses the version-mapped image for both Redis data pods and Sentinel pods. Helm tests check that the images match for the default version and v7.

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Assert that the Sentinel and Redis images are equal.

Both tests accept different image tags when the tags have the same major version. For example, the default test accepts redis:8.4.0 for Redis and redis:8.5.0 for Sentinel. Add an equality assertion for spec.sentinel.image and spec.redis.image in each test. Keep the major-version checks to verify the selected version.

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In both tests in the Sentinel image test configuration, add an assertion that
spec.sentinel.image equals spec.redis.image. Keep the existing major-version
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Thanks for the review. helm-unittest can't assert that two paths are equal, and pinning exact tags in the test would break the automatic patch bumps from hack/update-versions.sh. Instead the template now resolves the image once ($redisImage) and uses it for both spec.redis.image and spec.sentinel.image, so the two can't drift apart. Verified with helm template for v8 (redis:8.4.0) and v7 (redis:7.4.7); chart tests 50/50 pass.

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yrahman82 LGTM. This is the separate bump the old comment asked for, and a rollback is safe because a Sentinel pod keeps no data besides a config the init container rewrites on start.

I checked the operator side on v3.3.5. The compiled-in default is still redis:7.2.4-alpine, so the explicit pin is still needed. The Sentinel readiness probe passes only once the monitored master is no longer 127.0.0.1, so the rolling update waits for the operator to point each new pod at the master. make generate with cozyvalues-gen v1.7.0 leaves no diff, and helm unittest passes.

CI hasn't run here yet, so the e2e redis suite on the new Sentinel image is still open before merge. This PR and #4832 both regenerate packages/system/redis-rd/cozyrds/redis.yaml, so whichever lands second needs a rebase and make generate.

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The E2E failure here is unrelated to this change: the only failing test is tenant-gateway-passthrough-reservation (the HTTPRoute api-probe never got a status from the tenantgateway controller within 2 min). The same test fails the same way in run 38082220541 on the same base commit, so it looks like a flake or regression on main. Could you re-run E2E when you get a chance?

The Sentinels were left on redis:6.2.6-alpine when the operator moved to
the freshworks-oss fork, so that its new compiled-in default could not
move them on upgrade. 6.2 is end of life, and every instance now runs a
Sentinel one or two major versions behind the Redis it monitors.

The rollback risk behind that pin, a newer engine rewriting dump.rdb in
a format the older one cannot load, does not apply to Sentinel. It
stores no RDB or AOF, only sentinel.conf on an emptyDir that the
config-copy init container rewrites from the operator's ConfigMap on
every start, so moving back to an older image starts from a clean
config. Taking the image from the same version map as the data pods also
means one image per node instead of two.

The e2e comment that relied on busybox's timeout exit code in the
Sentinel container is updated, since that container now carries
coreutils.

Signed-off-by: Yasar Rahman <[email protected]>
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Rebased on main to resolve the conflict with #4832 (merged). The only change is the regenerated cozyrds/redis.yaml schema; no code changes. Could you re-approve when you get a chance?

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yrahman82 The rebase only regenerated packages/system/redis-rd/cozyrds/redis.yaml. The rest of the diff is line for line what I approved. Regenerating with cozyvalues-gen v1.7.0 on the new head leaves the tree unchanged, and helm unittest for the redis chart passes 60/60. Approving again.

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