Redis Is Open Source Again. But Is It Too Late?

Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500

Redis 8 just landed—and with it, a stunning twist in the open source world. After a controversial license change in 2024 that sparked community uproar and gave rise to forks like Valkey, Redis is back under an OSI-approved license: AGPLv3.

But the timing raises an uncomfortable question: Is it too late?

Harbor Redis Crashlooping

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:21:00 -0500

My Harbor server went offline when I patched one of my RKE2 clusters, which caused pods to go into ImagePullBackoff. Within a few minutes, I noticed that Redis was crashlooping with the following error:

bash
mmattox@a1ubthorp01:~/$ kubectl -n harbor logs -f harbor-redis-0
1:C 12 Jul 2022 23:15:36.208 # oO0OoO0OoO0Oo Redis is starting oO0OoO0OoO0Oo
1:C 12 Jul 2022 23:15:36.208 # Redis version=6.0.16, bits=64, commit=00000000, modified=0, pid=1, just started
1:C 12 Jul 2022 23:15:36.208 # Configuration loaded
 _._ 
 _.-``__ ''-._ 
 _.-`` `. `_. ''-._ Redis 6.0.16 (00000000/0) 64 bit
 .-`` .-```. ```\/ _.,_ ''-._ 
 ( ' , .-` | `, ) Running in standalone mode
 |`-._`-...-` __...-.``-._|'` _.-'| Port: 6379
 | `-._ `._ / _.-' | PID: 1
 `-._ `-._ `-./ _.-' _.-' 
 |`-._`-._ `-.__.-' _.-'_.-'| 
 | `-._`-._ _.-'_.-' | http://redis.io 
 `-._ `-._`-.__.-'_.-' _.-' 
 |`-._`-._ `-.__.-' _.-'_.-'| 
 | `-._`-._ _.-'_.-' | 
 `-._ `-._`-.__.-'_.-' _.-' 
 `-._ `-.__.-' _.-' 
 `-._ _.-' 
 `-.__.-' 

1:M 12 Jul 2022 23:15:36.210 # Server initialized
1:M 12 Jul 2022 23:15:36.210 # Can't handle RDB format version 10
1:M 12 Jul 2022 23:15:36.210 # Fatal error loading the DB: Invalid argument. Exiting.
mmattox@a1ubthorp01:~/$

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