Article Summary:
Questions answered and technical how-to on moving from Redis (no longer open source) to Valkey (open source continuation of the Redis code base).
Article Description:
This article describes how Redis recently changed to a non-open source license and how Valkey, a new Linux Foundation project, is continuing the development of the code base with the original BSD-3 clause license. The article then outlines how you can move from Redis to Valkey in Fedora. It will go over what is the same between Redis and Valkey and what you can do to make a seamless transition from Redis to Valkey.
The article would follow this outline:
- Facts on the Redis license change
- How/why Valkey was born and who is involved
- What has changed in Valkey 7.2.5 from Redis 7.2.4
- Considerations for past versions of Redis to Valkey
- Installing Valkey along side Redis
- Moving data from Redis to Valkey
- What you need to do with your application to talk to Valkey
- What the future holds for Valkey in the next major version
For the reviewers: This sounds like a lot in outline form, but Valkey has very few changes from Redis and consequently the steps are pretty straight forward (or noops).
Related: F41 Change Proposal: Replace Redis with Valkey (system-wide) during the FESCo meeting a couple of folks asked for this article.