# Speculator: Redis Operator

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A Golang based redis operator that will make/oversee Redis standalone/cluster mode setup on top of the Kubernetes. It can create a redis cluster setup with best practices on Cloud as well as the Bare-metal environment. Also, it provides an in-built monitoring capability using redis-exporter.

### Architecture

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### Purpose

The purpose of creating this operator was to provide easy and production-grade setup of Redis on Kubernetes. It doesn't care if you have a plain on-prem Kubernetes or cloud-based.

### Supported Features

Here the features which are supported by this operator:-

* Redis cluster/standalone mode setup
* Inbuilt monitoring with Prometheus exporter
* Dynamic storage provisioning with PVC template
* Resources restrictions with k8s requests and limits
* Password/Password-less setup
* Node selector and affinity
* Priority class to manage setup priority
* SecurityContext to manipulate kernel parameters