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feat(redis): size the Sentinel pods separately from Redis - #4832

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The Redis application renders spec.sentinel.resources from the same resources/resourcesPreset pair as the Redis pods. Every instance runs three Sentinels, so it reserves three extra copies of a Redis replica's memory for processes that hold only their configuration and the failover state. The dataset that drives the Redis sizing never reaches a Sentinel.

On our Cozystack v1.6.4 staging cluster, an HA Redis on t1.nano reserves 3 x 128Mi for its Sentinels. The VPA recommender (recommendation mode only) gives an uncapped target of 16Mi for the sentinel container. On a u1.small instance the same three Sentinels would reserve 3 x 4Gi.

This PR adds an optional sentinel block with the same two keys the top level has:

resourcesPreset: u1.small
sentinel:
  resources:
    cpu: 100m
    memory: 64Mi
  # resourcesPreset: t1.nano

Resolution rules:

  • sentinel empty (the default): the Sentinels keep the Redis sizing (resources + resourcesPreset). Existing instances therefore render exactly as before and an upgrade does not roll their Sentinels.
  • sentinel.resourcesPreset set: the Sentinels use that preset. Explicit top-level resources are not carried over, since they were sized for the dataset.
  • sentinel.resources set: it wins. Any key it leaves out is filled from sentinel.resourcesPreset, which falls back to resourcesPreset.
  • The Sentinel WorkloadMonitor label workloads.cozystack.io/resource-preset now carries the preset the Sentinels actually use. The Redis WorkloadMonitor is unchanged.

Changes:

  • values.yaml: new Sentinel parameters section (@typedef Sentinel, @param {Sentinel} [sentinel], default {}), reusing the existing Resources and ResourcesPreset types so the enum and quantity validation is the same as the top-level pair.
  • templates/redisfailover.yaml: computes the Sentinel preset and resources once and uses them for spec.sentinel.resources and the Sentinel WorkloadMonitor label.
  • README.md: generated table rows plus a short hand-written sentinel section next to resources and resourcesPreset.
  • Generated: values.schema.json, api/apps/v1alpha1/redis/types.go (new Sentinel struct, ConfigSpec.Sentinel), api/apps/v1alpha1/redis/zz_generated.deepcopy.go, packages/system/redis-rd/cozyrds/redis.yaml.
  • tests/sentinel_resources_test.yaml: 10 helm-unittest cases covering the rules above and an unknown preset being refused.

I chose not to change the default sizing. A smaller default (for example a fixed small preset for Sentinel) would save more for everyone, but it would also roll every instance's Sentinels and change what tenants are billed for on upgrade. If maintainers prefer that, it is a one-line follow-up on top of this change.

Testing done:

  • make generate in packages/apps/redis with cozyvalues-gen v1.7.0 (the version pre-commit.yml installs); regenerated files committed.
  • Deepcopy: controller-gen object v0.16.4 on api/apps/v1alpha1 (the last step of hack/update-codegen.sh), only the redis package changed; go build ./... and go vet ./redis/ pass in that module, go mod tidy leaves no diff. I could not run the full root make generate on my machine: code-generator v0.37.1 fails to parse the Go 1.27.1 standard library (math/rand/v2: method must have no type parameters), which is a host toolchain problem unrelated to this change. CI's codegen-drift job should confirm.
  • make test in packages/apps/redis (helm-unittest v1.1.2): 58 passed. With the template change reverted, 4 of the new cases fail (the ones that set sentinel.*); the cases that pin today's behaviour pass both ways.
  • Rendered output with no sentinel block is identical to main (all documents except the random-password Secret) for the defaults, resourcesPreset=u1.small, and explicit resources (cpu 1, memory 2Gi).

Backwards compatibility: purely additive. The field is optional with an empty default, existing instances render unchanged, and nothing rolls on upgrade. Clients that do not know the field are unaffected.

Screenshots

Not a UI change. The dashboard form gets a sentinel object from the schema like other nested parameters (e.g. tls).

Downstream repositories

Trigger map walked against the diff: this adds a field to values.schema.json, so cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack needs to model sentinel.resources / sentinel.resourcesPreset in its Redis resource. I will open that issue once this PR has a number and link it here; a draft is in FOLLOWUP-terraform-provider-redis-sentinel.md. The website page for redis is regenerated from README.md by the release bot (redis is in the website APPS list), so no manual follow-up there. Nothing else in the map is touched.

Release note

feat(redis): new optional `sentinel.resources` and `sentinel.resourcesPreset` parameters size the three Sentinel pods independently of the Redis pods. When unset, Sentinels keep the Redis sizing as before, so existing instances are unchanged.

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  • New Features
    • Added independent CPU and memory resource settings and sizing presets for Redis Sentinel pods.
    • When Sentinel-specific settings aren’t provided, Sentinel pods inherit Redis resource settings. Unspecified Sentinel resource values can use the Sentinel preset, which defaults to the Redis preset.
    • Added configuration documentation and validation for Sentinel resource settings.

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The Redis API and Helm chart now support resource overrides and sizing presets for Sentinel pods. When Sentinel resources and presets are unset, Sentinel sizing falls back to Redis settings. The chart applies the selected settings to Sentinel resources and WorkloadMonitor labels.

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Sentinel Resource Sizing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define Sentinel sizing settings
api/apps/v1alpha1/redis/types.go, api/apps/v1alpha1/redis/zz_generated.deepcopy.go, packages/apps/redis/values.yaml, packages/apps/redis/values.schema.json, packages/system/redis-rd/cozyrds/redis.yaml, packages/apps/redis/README.md
The Redis API and chart values add Sentinel resource and preset settings. The schema and documentation describe fallback behavior. The generated deep-copy methods include the new API field, and the Redis application schema adds Sentinel settings and dashboard ordering.
Resolve and render Sentinel sizing
packages/apps/redis/templates/redisfailover.yaml, packages/apps/redis/tests/sentinel_resources_test.yaml
The chart resolves Sentinel resources and presets, then uses them for Sentinel resource sanitization and the WorkloadMonitor preset label. Tests cover Redis fallback, Sentinel overrides, label values, and rejection of an unknown preset.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

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  participant HelmValues
  participant RedisFailoverTemplate
  participant SentinelResourceSanitizer
  participant SentinelWorkloadMonitor
  HelmValues->>RedisFailoverTemplate: Redis and Sentinel sizing settings
  RedisFailoverTemplate->>SentinelResourceSanitizer: Resolved Sentinel resources and preset
  RedisFailoverTemplate->>SentinelWorkloadMonitor: Resolved Sentinel preset label
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yrahman82 NOT LGTM, because of one wrong claim in the template comment and the commit message. The feature itself is fine. Other apps already size components separately (Harbor, ClickHouse), the default keeps today's render, make generate with cozyvalues-gen v1.7.0 leaves no diff, and helm unittest passes.

The claim is that a typed client sends sentinel.resources: {}. It sends zero quantities instead, details inline. Top-level resources has the same zero-quantity problem on main, so this is not a regression and I'm not asking you to fix it here. But the commit message lands in main as is, so the reason in it has to be true. Matching the top-level resources: {} behaviour is reason enough. Please keep that part and drop the typed-client part, in the comment and in the commit body.

Minor, in the PR description: the new suite has 10 cases, not 9, and I get 58 tests, not 57.

sizing over-provisions it. An empty sentinel block still falls back to the
Redis sizing, so existing instances render unchanged on upgrade.
An empty sentinel.resources map counts as unset, like an empty top-level
resources: the generated Go type marshals the struct as {} even when the

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This part doesn't hold. resource.Quantity is a struct, and omitempty never omits a struct. On this branch json.Marshal(redis.ConfigSpec{}) gives "sentinel":{"resources":{"cpu":"0","memory":"0"}}, so a typed client takes the sentinel.resources branch with zero quantities. The empty-map rule is fine as a mirror of top-level resources: {}. Only the typed-client reason should go.

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Agreed, thanks for checking with json.Marshal — resource.Quantity is a struct, so a typed client sends zero quantities, not {}. Fixed in 8580a9d: the typed-client reason is removed from this template comment, the test comment and the commit body. What remains is the true reason: an empty sentinel.resources counts as unset to mirror the top-level resources: {} rule.

Every Sentinel pod gets the Redis pods' resources, so the three
Sentinels of an instance reserve three times a Redis replica's memory
while holding only their configuration and the failover state. On a
t1.nano instance that is 3 x 128Mi while the VPA recommender's uncapped
target for a Sentinel container is 16Mi, and the waste grows with every
larger preset, because the dataset that drives the Redis sizing never
reaches a Sentinel.

sentinel.resources and sentinel.resourcesPreset follow the convention of
the top-level pair, and sentinel.resourcesPreset falls back to
resourcesPreset. Explicit Redis resources are not carried over once the
sentinel block sets either key, since they were sized for the dataset.
An empty sentinel.resources map counts as unset, as an empty top-level
resources does.

An empty sentinel block keeps today's sizing, so existing instances
render unchanged and an upgrade does not roll their Sentinels. The
Sentinel WorkloadMonitor reports the preset the Sentinels actually use.

Signed-off-by: Yasar Rahman <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: LLM
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yrahman82 force-pushed the feat/redis-sentinel-resources branch from 3a763c1 to 8580a9d Compare October 10, 2026 19:27
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Aleksei Sviridkin (@lexfrei) you are right, thanks for checking with json.Marshal. Fixed in 8580a9d: the typed-client reason is gone from the template comment, the test comment and the commit body; the remaining reason is that an empty sentinel.resources mirrors the top-level resources: {} rule. Description corrected to 10 cases and 58 tests.

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yrahman82 LGTM. The typed-client reason is gone from the template comment, the test comment and the commit body, and the rest of the commit is unchanged. The description counts are right now. helm unittest in packages/apps/redis gives 58 passed on a trial merge with current main.

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