Our Redis use-case started off as ephemeral per-deployment storage for things like rate-limit counters; before evolving into durable per-deployment storage for things like service-metadata discovery.
Ephemeral Redis is well-suited to k8s — you can treat it as just a sidecar to your app layer deployment. Durable Redis is not. But sometimes the transition can sneak up on you.
Ephemeral Redis is well-suited to k8s — you can treat it as just a sidecar to your app layer deployment. Durable Redis is not. But sometimes the transition can sneak up on you.