Docker

There are many blog posts about your migration options from Redis to Valkey but if you’re wanting to do an in place swap, one thing that has come up is that Redis 7.4’s RDB format isn’t compatible with Redis so if you’ve upgraded Redis to 7.4, this complicates things a bit. I found myself in this exact situation which is described in this GitHub issue because I have been using the redis:7-alpine Docker image and auto-updating it when new versions are available. As user bigb4ng points out, there is a cli based tool, rdb-cli which can read data from a dump file and output it to a Valkey server to achieve your data migration. While not quite the swap that you might have been hoping for, it’s a nice workaround. ...

I’ve been super busy with work and I think it’s safe to say that I don’t expect to be blogging much so I’m moving this off of Wordpress and onto Hugo just to get rid of PHP. Who knows, maybe I’ll write stuff again but for now, I’m just leaving this up for archival purposes.

So I had originally hoped to blog more about new things that I have been working on but I haven’t had a ton of free time in the past few months. A big reason for that is that I’ve been working with so many different and new technologies that I find myself spending a great deal more time just learning new things. One of those things has been Docker. If you are not familiar with Docker, I’d suggest at least looking into it and understanding how it works. At a high level, it basically takes your typical Linux processes and runs them inside of a container. ...