Add Valkey support to Winter CMS documentation #244
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- Update cache service documentation to include Valkey configuration options - Update queues service documentation with Valkey support details - Update session service documentation with Valkey configuration - Document Valkey as a Redis-compatible alternative for caching, queues, and sessions
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@rlunar thanks for your submission. While we'd be happy to mention Valkey in our docs, we don't want to advocate for Valkey over Redis (or vice-versa). Could you please make the following changes.
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| [Valkey](https://valkey.io) is an open-source, high-performance key-value datastore that serves as a drop-in replacement for Redis. It offers the same functionality and performance as Redis while being community-driven with improved governance. | ||
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| Since Valkey is protocol-compatible with Redis, it uses the same configuration as Redis. You can use the existing Redis configuration section in `config/database.php` for Valkey connections. Both the `predis` and `phpredis` clients work seamlessly with Valkey, requiring no additional configuration changes. | ||
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| To use Valkey instead of Redis, simply point your Redis configuration to your Valkey server instance. All Redis configuration examples in this documentation apply equally to Valkey. | ||
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This section reads too much like a promotion of Valkey. I'd prefer if we do not include a section for Valkey and just change the Redis section above to "Redis / Valkey" instead as necessary, with maybe a small mention that Valkey is a drop-in replacement for Redis.
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| ### Valkey | |
| [Valkey](https://valkey.io) is an open-source, high-performance key-value datastore that serves as a drop-in replacement for Redis. It offers the same functionality and performance as Redis while being community-driven with improved governance. | |
| Since Valkey is protocol-compatible with Redis, it uses the same configuration as Redis. You can use the existing Redis configuration section in `config/database.php` for Valkey connections. Both the `predis` and `phpredis` clients work seamlessly with Valkey, requiring no additional configuration changes. | |
| To use Valkey instead of Redis, simply point your Redis configuration to your Valkey server instance. All Redis configuration examples in this documentation apply equally to Valkey. |
| - `cookie` - sessions are stored in secure, encrypted cookies. | ||
| - `database` - sessions are stored in a database used by your application. | ||
| - `memcached` / `redis` - sessions are stored in one of these fast, cache based stores. | ||
| - `memcached` / `redis` / `valkey` - sessions are stored in one of these fast, cache based stores. |
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valkey is not an applicable session driver as far as I know. Valkey still uses the redis driver.
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| - `memcached` / `redis` / `valkey` - sessions are stored in one of these fast, cache based stores. | |
| - `memcached` / `redis` - sessions are stored in one of these fast, cache based stores. |
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New Documentation Files:
services/cache.md- Update cache service documentation to include Valkey configuration optionsservices/queues.md- Update queues service documentation with Valkey support detailsservices/session.md- Update session service documentation with Valkey configurationsetup/configuration.md- Add Valkey environment variables