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Boxiang Sun
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Nov 10, 2016
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Achilleas Pipinellis
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Fix typos of Redis sentinel docs
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ topology with **Sentinel** service to watch and automatically start
failover proceedings.
You can choose to install and manage Redis and Sentinel yourself, use
a hosted, managed clou
se
solution or you can use or you can use the one
a hosted, managed clou
d
solution or you can use or you can use the one
that comes bundled with Omnibus GitLab packages.
> **Note:** Redis requires authentication for High Availability. See
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@@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ technology and provide a transparent proxy, which means that GitLab doesn't
need any additional change, or will use Sentinel and manage it for you.
If your provider, uses Sentinel method, see
[
GitLab Setup
](
#gitlab-setup
)
to understan
t
where you need to provide the list of servers and credentials.
to understan
d
where you need to provide the list of servers and credentials.
If you want to setup Redis by yourself, without using Omnibus, you can
read our documentation:
[
Configuring Redis for GitLab HA (
Source Install)
](
redis_source.md
)
read our documentation:
[
Configuring Redis for GitLab HA (
source install)
](
redis_source.md
)
.
## High Availability with Sentinel
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@@ -73,19 +73,19 @@ High Availability with Redis requires a few things:
-
Multiple Redis instances
-
Run Redis in a
**Master**
x
**Slave**
topology
-
Multiple Sentinel instances
-
Application support and visiblity to all Sentinel and Redis instances
-
Application support and visib
i
lity to all Sentinel and Redis instances
Redis Sentinel can handle the most important tasks in a HA environment to help
keep servers online with minimal to no downtime:
-
Monitors
**Master**
and
**Slaves**
instances to see if they are available
-
Promote a
**Slave**
to
**Master**
when the
**Master**
fails
.
-
Promote a
**Slave**
to
**Master**
when the
**Master**
fails
-
Demote a
**Master**
to
**Slave**
when failed
**Master**
comes back online (to prevent
data-partitioning)
.
-
Can be queried by clients to always connect to the current
**Master**
server
.
data-partitioning)
-
Can be queried by clients to always connect to the current
**Master**
server
When a
**Master**
fails to respond, it's the client
responsability to handle timeout
and reconnect (querying a
**Sentinel**
for a new
**Master**
).
When a
**Master**
fails to respond, it's the client
's responsibility to handle
timeout
and reconnect (querying a
**Sentinel**
for a new
**Master**
).
To get a better understanding on how to correctly setup Sentinel, please read
the
[
Redis Sentinel documentation
](
http://redis.io/topics/sentinel
)
first, as
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@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ the shared environment can bring your entire setup down.
You also need to take in consideration the underlying network topology,
making sure you have redundant connectivity between Redis / Sentinel and
GitLab instances, otherw
h
ise the networks will become a single point of
GitLab instances, otherwise the networks will become a single point of
failure.
Read carefully how to configure the components below.
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@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ simultaneously down.
Please note that there are different requirements for Sentinel nodes.
If you host them in the same Redis machines, you may need to take
that restrictions into consideration when calculating the am
m
ount of
that restrictions into consideration when calculating the amount of
nodes to be provisioned. See
[
Sentinel setup
](
#sentinel-setup
)
documentation for more information.
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@@ -171,10 +171,10 @@ the same Sentinels.
Sentinels watches both other sentinels and Redis nodes. Whenever a Sentinel
detects that a Redis node is not responding, it will announce that to the
other sentinels. You have to reach the
**quorum**
, the minimum am
m
ount of
other sentinels. You have to reach the
**quorum**
, the minimum amount of
sentinels that agrees that a node is down, to be able to start a failover.
Whenver the
**quorum**
is met, you need the
**majority**
of all known
When
e
ver the
**quorum**
is met, you need the
**majority**
of all known
Sentinel nodes to be available and reachable, to elect the Sentinel
**leader**
who will take all the decisions to restore the service availability by:
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@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ independent machines, both with **Redis** and **Sentinel**:
-
Redis Slave + Sentinel
Make sure you've read
[
Redis Setup
](
#redis-setup
)
and
[
Sentinel Setup
](
#sentinel-setup
)
before, to understan
t how and why the am
mount of nodes came from.
before, to understan
d how and why the a
mount of nodes came from.
For a recommended setup, that can resist more failures, you will install
the Omnibus GitLab package in
`5`
independent machines, both with
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@@ -259,11 +259,11 @@ This is a summary of what are we going to do:
independent ones.
-
Don't install Redis and Sentinel in the same machines your GitLab instance
is running on.
-
All machines must be able to talk to each other and accept incom
m
ing
-
All machines must be able to talk to each other and accept incoming
connection over Redis (
`6379`
) and Sentinel (
`26379`
) ports.
-
GitLab machines must be able to access these machines and with the same
permissions.
-
Protected them from indiscriminat
ed
access from external networks (Internet),
-
Protected them from indiscriminat
ing
access from external networks (Internet),
to harden the security.
1.
Download/install Omnibus GitLab using
**steps 1 and 2**
from
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@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ inside it.
Your single-machine install will be the initial
**Master**
, and the
`3`
others
should be configured as
**Slave**
pointing to this machine.
After replication catch
s-
up, you will need to stop services in the
After replication catch
es
up, you will need to stop services in the
single-machine install, to rotate the
**Master**
to one of the new nodes.
Make the required changes in configuration and restart the new nodes again.
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@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ You will need to configure the following in `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`:
1.
Define a
`redis['bind']`
address pointing to a local IP that your other machines
can reach you.
-
If you really need to bind to an external acessible IP, make
-
If you really need to bind to an external ac
c
essible IP, make
sure you add extra firewall rules to prevent unauthorized access.
-
You can also set bind to
`0.0.0.0`
which listen in all interfaces.
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@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ You will need to configure the following in `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`:
1.
Define a
`redis['bind']`
address pointing to a local IP that your other machines
can reach you.
-
If you really need to bind to an external acessible IP, make
-
If you really need to bind to an external ac
c
essible IP, make
sure you add extra firewall rules to prevent unauthorized access.
-
You can also set bind to
`0.0.0.0`
which listen in all interfaces.
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@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ installations. From the GitLab application perspective, all it requires is
the correct credentials for the Sentinel nodes.
While it doesn't require a list of all Sentinel nodes, in case of a failure,
it needs to access at least one of
listeds
.
it needs to access at least one of
the listed
.
>**Note:**
The following steps should be performed in the
[
GitLab application server
](
gitlab.md
)
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@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ by the Sentinel nodes, the Redis nodes will be reconfigured and the **Master**
will change permanently (including in
`redis.conf`
) from one node to the other,
until a new failover is initiated again.
The same thing will happen with
`sentinel.conf`
that will be overri
t
en after the
The same thing will happen with
`sentinel.conf`
that will be overri
dd
en after the
initial execution, after any new sentinel node starts watching the
**Master**
,
or a failover promotes a different
**Master**
node.
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@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ sentinel['quorum'] = 2
### Control running services
In the example above we've used
`redis_sentinel_role`
and
`redis_master_role`
which simplify the am
m
ount of configuration changes.
which simplify the amount of configuration changes.
If you want more control, here is what each one sets for you automatically
when enabled:
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