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Nov 16, 2016
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Achilleas Pipinellis
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Remove login as root step from Redis HA docs
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@@ -107,10 +107,12 @@ to help keep servers online with minimal to no downtime. Redis Sentinel:
-
Promotes a
**Slave**
to
**Master**
when the
**Master**
fails
-
Demotes a
**Master**
to
**Slave**
when the failed
**Master**
comes back online
(to prevent data-partitioning)
-
Can be queried by clients to always connect to the current
**Master**
server
-
Can be queried by the application to always connect to the current
**Master**
server
When a
**Master**
fails to respond, it's the client's responsibility to handle
timeout and reconnect (querying a
**Sentinel**
for a new
**Master**
).
When a
**Master**
fails to respond, it's the application's responsibility
(in our case GitLab) to handle timeout and reconnect (querying a
**Sentinel**
for a new
**Master**
).
To get a better understanding on how to correctly setup Sentinel, please read
the
[
Redis Sentinel documentation
](
http://redis.io/topics/sentinel
)
first, as
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@@ -289,12 +291,7 @@ The prerequisites for a HA Redis setup are the following:
### Step 1. Configuring the master Redis instance
1.
SSH into the
**master**
Redis server and login as root:
```
sudo -i
```
1.
SSH into the
**master**
Redis server.
1.
[
Download/install
](
https://about.gitlab.com/installation
)
the Omnibus GitLab
package you want using
**steps 1 and 2**
from the GitLab downloads page.
-
Make sure you select the correct Omnibus package, with the same version
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@@ -334,12 +331,7 @@ The prerequisites for a HA Redis setup are the following:
### Step 2. Configuring the slave Redis instances
1.
SSH into the
**slave**
Redis server and login as root:
```
sudo -i
```
1.
SSH into the
**slave**
Redis server.
1.
[
Download/install
](
https://about.gitlab.com/installation
)
the Omnibus GitLab
package you want using
**steps 1 and 2**
from the GitLab downloads page.
-
Make sure you select the correct Omnibus package, with the same version
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@@ -417,12 +409,7 @@ multiple machines with the Sentinel daemon.
---
1.
SSH into the server that will host Redis Sentinel and login as root:
```
sudo -i
```
1.
SSH into the server that will host Redis Sentinel.
1.
**
You can omit this step if the Sentinels will be hosted in the same node as
the other Redis instances.
**
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@@ -437,7 +424,6 @@ multiple machines with the Sentinel daemon.
Sentinels in the same node as the other Redis instances, some values might
be duplicate below):
```ruby
redis_sentinel_role['enable'] = true
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@@ -530,6 +516,7 @@ it needs to access at least one of the listed.
The following steps should be performed in the
[
GitLab application server
](
gitlab.md
)
which ideally should not have Redis or Sentinels on it for a HA setup.
1.
SSH into the server where the GitLab application is installed.
1.
Edit
`/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`
and add/change the following lines:
```
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