# RedisServerWrapper
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Manage `redis-server` processes from Elixir -- single instances, clusters, and
sentinel topologies with GenServer lifecycle management.
No Docker required. Just `redis-server` and `redis-cli` on your PATH.
## Installation
Add `redis_server_wrapper` to your list of dependencies in `mix.exs`:
```elixir
def deps do
[
{:redis_server_wrapper, "~> 0.1.0"}
]
end
```
## Prerequisites
You need `redis-server` and `redis-cli` installed and available on your PATH.
```bash
# macOS
brew install redis
# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt-get install redis-server
# Verify
redis-server --version
```
## Quick Start
### Single Server
```elixir
{:ok, server} = RedisServerWrapper.start_server(port: 6400, password: "secret")
RedisServerWrapper.Server.ping(server)
#=> true
RedisServerWrapper.Server.run(server, ["SET", "key", "value"])
#=> {:ok, "OK"}
RedisServerWrapper.Server.run(server, ["GET", "key"])
#=> {:ok, "value"}
RedisServerWrapper.Server.stop(server)
```
### Cluster
```elixir
{:ok, cluster} = RedisServerWrapper.start_cluster(masters: 3, base_port: 7000)
RedisServerWrapper.Cluster.healthy?(cluster)
#=> true
RedisServerWrapper.Cluster.node_addrs(cluster)
#=> ["127.0.0.1:7000", "127.0.0.1:7001", "127.0.0.1:7002"]
RedisServerWrapper.Cluster.stop(cluster)
```
### Sentinel
```elixir
{:ok, sentinel} = RedisServerWrapper.start_sentinel(
master_port: 6390,
replicas: 2,
sentinels: 3
)
RedisServerWrapper.Sentinel.healthy?(sentinel)
#=> true
RedisServerWrapper.Sentinel.master_addr(sentinel)
#=> "127.0.0.1:6390"
RedisServerWrapper.Sentinel.stop(sentinel)
```
### Persistent Instances (Manager)
The `Manager` tracks instances across IEx sessions using a JSON state file:
```elixir
RedisServerWrapper.Manager.start_basic(name: "dev-redis", port: 6400)
#=> {:ok, %{name: "dev-redis", url: "redis://:password@127.0.0.1:6400", ...}}
RedisServerWrapper.Manager.list()
#=> [%{name: "dev-redis", type: :basic, ...}]
RedisServerWrapper.Manager.stop("dev-redis")
```
## Configuration
All Redis configuration directives can be set via the `Config` struct options.
Use the `:extra` option as an escape hatch for any directive not covered by
the typed fields:
```elixir
RedisServerWrapper.start_server(
port: 6400,
password: "secret",
maxmemory: "256mb",
maxmemory_policy: "allkeys-lru",
extra: [
{"notify-keyspace-events", "KEA"},
{"hz", "100"}
]
)
```
### Chaos / Fault Injection
The `Chaos` module provides fault injection primitives for testing resilience:
```elixir
alias RedisServerWrapper.{Chaos, Cluster, Server}
{:ok, cluster} = RedisServerWrapper.start_cluster(
masters: 3,
replicas_per_master: 1,
base_port: 7000
)
# Kill the master owning a key's hash slot
{:ok, killed} = Chaos.kill_master(cluster, "user:123")
# Kill by slot number
{:ok, killed} = Chaos.kill_master(cluster, 5000)
# Freeze a node (SIGSTOP) and resume later
{:ok, os_pid} = Chaos.freeze_node(server)
# ... test timeout/retry behavior ...
Chaos.resume_node(os_pid)
# Freeze with automatic resume after a duration
Chaos.pause_node(server, 5_000)
# Simulate a network partition
nodes = Cluster.nodes(cluster)
{active, isolated} = Enum.split(nodes, 2)
{:ok, frozen_pids} = Chaos.partition(cluster, [active, isolated])
# Recover all frozen nodes
Chaos.recover(frozen_pids)
# Other tools
Chaos.slow_down(server, 2_000) # CLIENT PAUSE
Chaos.flushall(server) # wipe all data
Chaos.fill_memory(server, 10_000) # fill with 1KB dummy keys
Chaos.trigger_save(server) # force BGSAVE
Chaos.random_kill(cluster) # kill a random node
Chaos.trigger_failover(replica) # CLUSTER FAILOVER on a replica
```
## Use Cases
- **Testing** -- spin up real Redis instances in ExUnit setup/teardown
- **Development** -- run Redis alongside your app without system services
- **CI** -- no Docker layer needed, just install redis-server
- **Cluster/Sentinel testing** -- create full topologies in a single function call
- **Resilience testing** -- fault injection with the Chaos module (kill nodes, simulate partitions, inject latency)
## License
Licensed under either of
- MIT License
- Apache License, Version 2.0
at your option. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.