Add support for Redis forks to Redis cache, lookup and modules

[chriscroome]

Summary

The Ansible Community.Mysql Collection supports MySQL and the MariaDB fork, could support for Redis forks, specifically Redict and Valkey be considered for the the Ansible Redis cache, lookup and modules?

These two forks are of particular interest to me since they are packaged by Debian (Redict, Valkey) and RedHat (Redict, Valkey) and they each have a key feature, Redict is CopyLeft and Valkey appears to have the most backing.

Issue Type

Feature Idea

Component Name

redis

Additional Information

I haven't tried using all the existing Redis cache, lookup or modules with either Redict or Valkey but the community.general.redis_info module seems to work fine with Valkey so perhaps all that is needed is an update to the documentation to say that the forks can be used?

The redis-py Python interface to Redis is is developed and maintained by Redis Inc so if changes are required here there is probably not much hope that it will support any forks?

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• plugins/modules/redis.py

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[felixfontein]

!component +plugins/modules/redis_data_incr.py
!component +plugins/modules/redis_data_info.py
!component +plugins/modules/redis_data.py
!component +plugins/modules/redis_info.py
!component +plugins/cache/redis.py
!component +plugins/module_utils/redis.py
!component +plugins/lookup/redis.py

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Files identified in the description:

• plugins/cache/redis.py
• plugins/lookup/redis.py
• plugins/module_utils/redis.py
• plugins/modules/redis.py
• plugins/modules/redis_data.py
• plugins/modules/redis_data_incr.py
• plugins/modules/redis_data_info.py
• plugins/modules/redis_info.py

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[felixfontein]

Redict doesn't seem to have a Python client, but Valkey has valkey-py (https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-py), a fork of redis-py.

I guess as long as the functionality from redis-py used by the modules/plugins works fine with Valkey, they are already compatible. Supporting both redis-py and valkey-py is also possible to implement, but requires some effort (and should better have some testing).

[chriscroome]

Thanks @felixfontein currently Debian doesn't appear to have valkey-py packaged, perhaps for now just documenting what works and what doesn't would be a step in the right direction.

[felixfontein]

Sure, feel free to create PRs for that :)

[chriscroome]

Thanks @felixfontein but I don't feel qualified to do that.