Redis sentinels is one of the two options to create a high
availability service. It consists of minimally three Redis servers and
mininally three sentinel servers. The sentinel servers monitor the Redis
servers and will initiate a fail-over when the master becomes
disfunctional and certain safety constraints are satisfied. A client
needs to be aware of this setup. It is given an initial list with (a
subset of) the known sentinels. The client attempts to connect to one of
the sentinels and ask it for the current Redis master server. Details
are described in Sentinel
client spec. The SWI-Prolog client maintains the actual list of
sentinels dynamically after successful discovery of the first sentinel.
Below is an example
redis_server/3 to connect to
a sentinel network. The Address specification
sentinel(swish) tells the library we want to connect to a
sentinel network that is monitored under the name swish.
:- redis_server(swish_sentinel, sentinel(swish),
[ user(janbob),
password("topsecret"),
version(3),
sentinels([ host1:26379,
host2:26379,
host3:26379
])
]).
