How to configure and connect redis cluster correctly?

[zhang-haiyang]

How to configure and connect redis cluster correctly?

[jonprindiville]

@zhang-haiyang As far as I am aware there is no official support for Redis Cluster here in django-redis.

For a time the actual https://github.com/redis/redis-py client had no support for it either. One way to approach it was https://github.com/Grokzen/redis-py-cluster + https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/ ...

Recently, though, https://github.com/Grokzen/redis-py-cluster became deprecated because most of that functionality landed in https://github.com/redis/redis-py (🎉)

So far, django-redis doesn't support the new cluster functionality of redis-py. There's some chatter about that over in #606 but mostly just snippets and brainstorms.

I've been meaning to push on that a bit more, but haven't had bandwidth. (But I think I need to figure that out before I can get to Django 4+ so probably can't wait toooooo long.)

I think it's doable... probably need to understand how django-redis wants to integrate cluster stuff into its test suite, though, and I think there might be some typing stuff to think about because RedisCluster and Redis client are separate class hierarchies, but I don't think there's any real big barriers.

[stinovlas]

What are the caveats of using this approach?

from django_redis.client import DefaultClient
from redis.cluster import RedisCluster

class ClusterClient(DefaultClient):
    """Cluster enabled client."""

    def connect(self, index=0):
        """Override to connect properly."""
        return RedisCluster.from_url(self._server[index])

I guess it should work for commands that behave the same in single instance and cluster mode. Or will it break horribly in some cases?