August 2019 Summaries

Redis Enterprise Cloud is a fully managed serverless DBaaS that allows users to scale out their database size and throughput capacity with ease, without having to worry about nodes or clusters. The shared-nothing, symmetric architecture of Redis Enterprise enables seamless scaling, and behind the scenes, this technology consists of a cluster and physical or virtual nodes that can be configured in various modes such as simple, high availability, clustered, and HA clustered databases. When users increase their database size and throughput, Redis Enterprise computes the extra number of shards and cluster nodes needed, adds new shards and nodes to the cluster, and rebalances the data for best performance. The proxy plays a key role in this operation, enabling a single endpoint to the Redis database that spans multiple shards, ensuring consistency and avoiding changes to application code. With Redis Enterprise Cloud, users can scale out linearly in a seamless manner, with options such as Redis on Flash (RoF) providing cost-effective scaling when dataset size gets over 100GB.

Red Hat OpenShift is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that allows customers to deploy and run containerized applications on top of Red Hat's Kubernetes distribution, providing a self-service interface for orchestrating resources. This service automates many operational details, allowing developers to focus on writing code without needing deep operational knowledge. OpenShift is optimized to run on CoreOS, a Linux distribution specialized for containerized applications, and features tools such as a web control panel for service deployment and monitoring, an integrated CI/CD system, and more. The Redis Enterprise Cluster can be managed with OpenShift through the Operator Framework, which allows developers to have self-service access to Redis Enterprise like any other resource in the Kubernetes ecosystem.