replication_and_failover_external.md

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Redis replication and failover providing your own instance

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If you're hosting GitLab on a cloud provider, you can optionally use a managed service for Redis. For example, AWS offers ElastiCache that runs Redis.

Alternatively, you may opt to manage your own Redis instance separate from the Linux package.

Requirements

The following are the requirements for providing your own Redis instance:

• Find the minimum Redis version that is required in the requirements page.
• Standalone Redis or Redis high availability with Sentinel are supported. Redis Cluster is not supported.
• Managed Redis from cloud providers such as AWS ElastiCache works fine. If these services support high availability, be sure it is not the Redis Cluster type.

Note the Redis node's IP address or hostname, port, and password (if required).

Redis as a managed service in a cloud provider