Redis data structures

This is designed to help the user understand what is going on inside of redis at a low level. The following are redis keys (with examples) and what they store.

• cluster:<cluster_name>:<host_name> This is a low level entry that has a hostname's ip
  • type: redis key
    • content: host ip
    • example cluster:coreos:nginx 192.168.2.2
• port:<cluster_name>:<host_name> This is a low level entry that has a hostname's port
  • type: redis key
    • content: host port
    • example port:coreos:nginx 443
• index:cluster:<cluster_name> This is a medium level entry that contains the elements (hosts) that are in a cluster
  • type: redis set
  • content: cluster hosts
  • example index:cluster:coreos {nginx, cApp, configServer}
• list:cluster:<cluster_name> This is a clone of the previous, used to hold order or load balanced hosts. This element stays in order to obey load balancer algoritms
  • type: redis unordered set (list)
  • content: cluster hosts
  • example list:cluster:coreos {nginx, cApp, configServer}
• state:cluster:<cluster_name> This is a statefile for any draining host. When a host begins draining it adds itself the the state entry so a single box is not entered twice.
  • type: redis unordered set (list)
  • content: draining cluster ip:port
  • example state:cluster:coreos {192.168.1.9:8080, 192.168.1.8:4410}
• index:master This a persistent index that hold a list of all clusters (this persists across nsproxy reboots)
  • type: redis set
  • content: clusters
  • example index:master {coreos, neatCluster, ps2_cluster}
• index:live This is volitile entry that gets diffed against index:master and only contains hosts that have live listeners
  • type: redis set
  • content: clusters
  • example index:master {coreos, neatCluster, ps2_cluster}
• dns:<dns_type>:<domain> This is the standard dns entry
  • type: redis set
  • content: a, aaaa, cname entry
  • example dns:a:unixvoid.com. 192.168.1.80
• weight:<cluster_name>:<host_name> This the entry that holds the master weight of the box for load balancing
  • type: redis key
  • content: the weight the box (defaults to 1)
  • example weight:testapp:4146b6ec7810 5
• cweight:<cluster_name>:<host_name> This the entry that holds the current weight of the box for load balancing. This field is volitile
  • type: redis key
  • content: the current weight the box
  • example cweight:testapp:4146b6ec7810 3