Trigger Specification

This specification describes the redis trigger that scales based on the length of a list in Redis.

triggers:
- type: redis
  metadata:
    address: localhost:6379 # Format must be host:port
    passwordFromEnv: REDIS_PASSWORD
    listName: mylist # Required
    listLength: "5" # Required
    enableTLS: "false" # optional
    databaseIndex: "0" # optional
    # Alternatively, you can use existing environment variables to read configuration from:
    # See details in "Parameter list" section
    addressFromEnv: REDIS_HOST # Optional. You can use this instead of `address` parameter

Parameter list:

• address - The host and port of the Redis server.
• host - The host of the Redis server. Alternative to address and requires port to be configured as well.
• port - The port of the Redis server. Alternative to address and requires host to be configured as well.
• passwordFromEnv - Environment variable to read the authentication password from to authenticate with the Redis server.
  • Both the hostname and password fields need to be set to the names of the environment variables in the target deployment that contain the host name and password respectively.
• listName - Name of the Redis List that you want to monitor
• listLength - Average target value to trigger scaling actions
• enableTLS - If set to true allow a connection to a redis queue using tls, the default value for this parameter is false.
• databaseIndex - Index of Redis database to use. If not specified, the default value is 0

Some parameters could be provided using environmental variables, instead of setting them directly in metadata. Here is a list of parameters you can use to retrieve values from environment variables:

• addressFromEnv - The host and port of the Redis server, similar to address, but reads it from an environment variable on the scale target.
• hostFromEnv - The host of the Redis server, similar to host, but reads it from an environment variable on the scale target.
• portFromEnv - The port of the Redis server, similar to port, but reads it from an environment variable on the scale target.

Authentication Parameters

You can authenticate by using a password.

Connection Authentication:

• address - The hostname and port for the Redis server (host:port format).
• host - The hostname of the Redis server. If specified, the port should also be specified
• port - The port of the Redis server. If specified, the host should also be specified

Password Authentication:

• password - Redis password to authenticate with

Example

Here is an example of how to deploy a scaled object with the redis scale trigger which uses TriggerAuthentication.

You can also provide the passwordFromEnv on the ScaledObject directly.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: votes-db-secret
  namespace: my-project
type: Opaque
data:
  redis_password: YWRtaW4=
---
apiVersion: keda.sh/v1alpha1
kind: TriggerAuthentication
metadata:
  name: keda-trigger-auth-redis-secret
  namespace: my-project
spec:
  secretTargetRef:
  - parameter: password
    name: votes-db-secret
    key: redis_password
---
apiVersion: keda.sh/v1alpha1
kind: ScaledObject
metadata:
  name: redis-scaledobject
  namespace: my-project
spec:
  scaleTargetRef:
    name: votes
  triggers:
  - type: redis
    metadata:
      address: localhost:6379
      listName: mylist
      listLength: "10"
    authenticationRef:
      name: keda-trigger-auth-redis-secret

Currently available scalers for KEDA