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[INFRA-1336] feat(plane-enterprise): Redis Sentinel support (3.13.0) - #371
Was: plane-enterprise could only give services one Redis URL, so they couldn't follow a Sentinel failover. Several workloads also didn't get customCA, and non-root Python workloads couldn't use it at all.
Now: setting env.redis_sentinels puts every Redis workload in Sentinel mode. Unset, releases render as before apart from the chart version and checksum/config.
The chart never deploys Sentinel. This lets self-hosted customers who bring their own deploy with it; Plane doesn't provide or certify Sentinel.
pi stays on Redis through Sentinel: pi-api-env sets CELERY_BROKER_URL to sentinel://. Outside Sentinel mode pi's manifests match master.
Every Redis workload now installs customCA, so env.redis_ssl_verify works with a private CA. Non-root (securityContext.enabled) Python workloads write their own CA bundle to /tmp, or /dev/shm, and point the TLS variables at it. mcp-server gets a readiness probe on its http port and an 8 s preStop sleep.
Where to look
🔴 charts/plane-enterprise/templates/_helpers.tpl — plane.redisClientEnv, plane.s3CACommand and the non-root CA bundle
🔴 templates/config-secrets/ — credentials stay in Secrets; REDIS_URL renders empty in Sentinel mode
🟡 templates/workloads/ — env wiring and CA mounts, mcp-server's REDIS_URL fix, readiness probe and preStop sleep
Render fails on Sentinel with services.redis.local_setup: true (the default), without env.redis_sentinel_master, or with env.remote_redis_url.
env.redis_username and usernameKey also work outside Sentinel mode. api, live, silo and mcp-server read them; pi's fallback path doesn't.
The non-root CA settings aren't in a kubectl exec shell, so commands run that way don't trust the CA. The README says so.
Blast Radius
Existing installs with no customCA — only checksum/config changes, so pods restart once on upgrade
Existing installs with customCA — 7 more workloads, plus mcp-server when enabled, install the CA, then start the same entrypoint
Non-root installs with customCA — Python workloads trust the CA through their own bundle
Sentinel mode, all Redis workloads and pi — connect through Sentinel, and follow failovers
pi_api_env_existingSecret — the Secret owns CELERY_BROKER_URL, so it must set sentinel://
mcp-server restarts — the readiness probe holds traffic until the port is open, and the preStop sleep keeps the old pod serving while the ingress moves off it
Proof
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Confidence: Medium — every Blast Radius flow ran on the cluster, including non-root with a private CA, and the preStop sleep took mcp-server restart errors to 0 of 903, but readOnlyRootFilesystem and gRPC trust on non-root aren't covered.
Ran:helm lint and a render-and-assert script across every Redis mode, run locally and not part of this PR (676 checks, including the CA on every workload with REDIS_SENTINELS); renders compared with master; final /deploy of makeplane/plane-ee#10916 at 514342f2d1 on this chart (run 42468892253), on the shared ElastiCache, bundled Redis and a test Sentinel with ACL users and a private CA. Co-editing, silo tasks, mcp-server and system checks pass on all three; killed, hung and killed primaries gave 220 of 220 edits each and 0 restarts; 0 passwords in 26 pods' logs.
Non-root, uid 1000, private CA: on an earlier plane-ee build with charts e5ea81f and 5221b96, api, worker and beat-worker pass with verified TLS; 13 Python workloads installed the CA; 0 TLS errors in 8 services' logs; co-editing 24 of 24; silo expiry tasks 3 of 3.
mcp-server restarts: probe only (5221b96), 2 restarts: 2 502 and 1 timeout in about 90 answers. With the 8 s preStop sleep (fea7f47; the same sleep patched onto the deployment on the cluster), 3 restarts polled 4 times a second: 0 of 903 failed, against 48 of 903 without it (11 502, 34 TLS handshake timeouts, 3 read timeouts). At 1 a second: 1 of 206 with it, a connection error 70 s after the restart.
Try it:/deploy type=enterprise helm_repo=http://helm-chart-test-build.s3-website.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/5221b96/plane-enterprise on makeplane/plane-ee#10916, then set env.redis_sentinels and env.redis_sentinel_master.
Not verified:readOnlyRootFilesystem (api can't start, because gunicorn needs a writable /tmp); gRPC trust on non-root (GRPC_DEFAULT_SSL_ROOTS_FILE_PATH still points at the system bundle); the search-index Job ran, but only inferred, because it deletes itself; a wrong CA on live, live-exporter and silo only logs a connection error, and pods stay Ready.
Rollout
Chart 3.12.0 to 3.13.0. New optional values only.
Before release: set $sentinelMinVersion in templates/NOTES.txt, and bump services.mcp_server.image, whose default has no Sentinel support.
Phase 0 decisions await owner sign-off; the list is on the report page. Rollback: revert the chart.
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Work item: INFRA-1336
Design / plan:docs/redis-sentinel.md in makeplane/plane-ee#10916
…Sentinel (3.12.0)
New values (names fixed by the INFRA-1336 brief):
env.redis_sentinels, redis_sentinel_master, redis_sentinel_username,
redis_sentinel_password, redis_username, redis_password, redis_db,
redis_sentinel_ssl, redis_ssl_verify
external_secrets.redis.usernameKey, sentinelUsernameKey, sentinelPasswordKey
A non-empty env.redis_sentinels turns Sentinel mode on. Every Redis consumer
except Plane AI (api, external-api, worker, worker-importers, beat-worker, the
three consumers, outbox-poller, migrator, search-index, live, live-exporter,
silo, mcp-server) gets REDIS_SENTINELS / REDIS_SENTINEL_MASTER / REDIS_DB /
REDIS_SSL / REDIS_SENTINEL_SSL / REDIS_SSL_VERIFY and the usernames from a new
plane.redisClientEnv helper. REDIS_URL is rendered empty in the app, live, silo
and mcp-server Secrets. Plain-value passwords go into those Secrets; with
external_secrets.redis they are secretKeyRef entries. Nothing is emitted unless
Sentinel mode or a username is configured, so existing releases render
byte-identical.
pi is deferred: plane.redisCredsEnv (which pi includes) and the pi templates
are unchanged, and the new helper is not wired into piInfraCredsEnv.
The render fails on Sentinel + services.redis.local_setup: true (the chart
default, so the message says to set it false), on a missing
redis_sentinel_master, and on Sentinel + env.remote_redis_url.
mcp-server: the rediss://$(REDIS_HOST):$(REDIS_PORT)/ URL added for
external_secrets.redis + redis_ssl is no longer emitted in Sentinel mode. There
it rendered rediss://:6379/ (no redis_host), which the server tries first.
NOTES prints the Sentinel requirements (Sentinel-capable planeVersion,
notify-keyspace-events with E and x on every data node). questions.yml and the
README (values, credentials, existingSecret tables) cover the new values.
Chart tests: ci/*-values.yaml for local Redis, remote URL, external_secrets
Redis, and Sentinel (plain values, external_secrets, existingSecret), ci/fail/
for the three refused combinations, and ci/render-test.sh, which asserts the
env per workload, blank REDIS_URL in Sentinel mode, passwords only in Secrets,
pi manifests identical to the base branch, and the failures. Run on PRs by the
new Chart Tests workflow.
The enterprise chart adds Redis Sentinel configuration and workload support, including credential handling and validation. It also extends custom CA setup with a writable-bundle fallback and workload integration. New Helm render tests cover Redis and CA configurations, and a GitHub Actions workflow runs chart linting and those tests.
The chart adds Sentinel settings, credential handling, client environment variables, Secret rendering, and validation. The values questions and README describe the configuration and external Secret fields.
Selected workloads now render Redis client settings. The MCP server excludes Sentinel mode from its external-Redis TLS URL branch. Notes and README describe Sentinel requirements and settings.
Custom CA fallback and workload wiring charts/plane-enterprise/templates/_helpers.tpl, charts/plane-enterprise/templates/workloads/*, charts/plane-enterprise/values.yaml, charts/plane-enterprise/README.md
The CA init script tries a writable combined bundle if system trust-store installation fails. Workloads now include CA setup, volumes, mounts, and environment variables where configured. The live exporter prepares a Node.js CA bundle.
Render-test coverage and CI workflow .github/workflows/chart-test.yml, charts/plane-enterprise/ci/*, charts/plane-enterprise/.helmignore, charts/plane-enterprise/Chart.yaml
The render-test script checks Redis and CA rendering, workload manifests, and invalid Sentinel configurations. CI values and failure fixtures provide test cases. The workflow runs linting and render tests; the chart version changes to 3.13.0.
sequenceDiagram
participant Values as values.yaml
participant Sentinel as plane.redisSentinel
participant Secrets as config-secrets
participant Workloads as workload templates
Values->>Sentinel: supplies Redis Sentinel settings
Sentinel->>Secrets: selects Sentinel Secret rendering
Sentinel->>Workloads: supplies Redis client environment settings
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Suggested reviewers: pratapalakshmi, akshat5302
Merge Risk: Low · up to fea7f
This adds optional Redis Sentinel and custom-CA support with render tests. Remaining issues are minor: the Sentinel minimum-version warning is not yet enabled, and one CI leak check could miss a rare false negative. These can be resolved before release without blocking the merge.
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A rabbit checks the charts at dawn, And hops through values one by one. The Sentinel paths now join the flow, While custom trust bundles grow. Tests render each setting right, Then whisk the chart into the night.
…entinel
In Sentinel mode pi gets the Sentinel settings and CELERY_BROKER_URL=sentinel://, so its Celery
broker follows the primary instead of falling back to RabbitMQ. Outside Sentinel mode pi renders
as before, and the render tests still compare that against master.
…onsumer
With REDIS_SSL_VERIFY on and a private CA, beat-worker, the consumers, outbox-poller, the
migrator, live-exporter and mcp-server had no CA, so they would fail verification. They now
install it the way the other workloads do. Renders without a custom CA don't change: the
wrapped command only appears when customCA is set.
The render test finds every workload given REDIS_SENTINELS and requires the CA on it, so a
new Redis consumer can't miss it. Also drops the docs' claims that Plane AI isn't covered
by Sentinel.
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[INFRA-1336] feat(plane-enterprise): connect to a customer-run Redis Sentinel (3.12.0)
[INFRA-1336] feat(plane-enterprise): Redis Sentinel support (3.13.0)
Nov 7, 2026
… workloads
Under securityContext.enabled the install script can't write the system trust store, so
every Python workload logged the warning and unset SSL_CERT_FILE and friends. TLS to the
private CA then failed: MasterNotFoundError on api, worker and beat-worker, and S3 too,
while the pods stayed Ready. Node services already built their own bundle.
When the system store can't be updated, the script now combines the image's CA bundle with
the supplied certificates and exports the same variables to that file. It goes in a private
directory, because SSL_CERT_DIR is a trust root and /tmp is world-writable. The chart never
sets readOnlyRootFilesystem, but containerSecurityContext can add it, so /dev/shm is the
second choice; that needs no new volume, so pod specs don't change. The warning stays as the
last resort, and a file that won't load is refused there, since a bad bundle would fail
public TLS as well.
AWS_CA_BUNDLE is exported too: the app ConfigMap sets it to the system bundle and botocore
prefers it to REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE, so S3 would otherwise keep failing.
Root installs still try the system store first and end up as before. Renders without a
custom CA don't change: the script only appears when customCA is set.
… sending it traffic
mcp-server had no readiness probe, so after every restart the Service routed
requests to the pod before the server was listening, and clients got 502 for
4 to 8 seconds. The server has no health route on any released image, so the
probe waits for the port. Nothing changes when mcp-server is off.
After a restart the ingress kept sending requests to the old mcp-server pod
for a few seconds after it had stopped, which returned 502s. An 8 s preStop
sleep keeps the old pod serving while it is removed from routing.
On a preview, 3 restarts each: without it, 2 to 11 502s and 1 to 3 timeouts;
with it, 903 of 903 requests returned 200. Released images (v0.3.2, v0.3.5)
ship sleep. Nothing changes when mcp-server is off.
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Intended for now. The minimum version is the first Plane release that includes makeplane/plane-ee#10916, and that isn't known until it ships. Until then, the note says the release must include INFRA-1336. I'll set $sentinelMinVersion when that release is cut, and check the warning against an older planeVersion then. Leaving this thread open as the reminder.
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@4krajesh Thanks for clarifying. The note states the INFRA-1336 requirement until the first supported release is known. This thread can remain open as the release reminder.
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customCA, and non-root Python workloads couldn't use it at all.env.redis_sentinelsputs every Redis workload in Sentinel mode. Unset, releases render as before apart from the chart version andchecksum/config.pi-api-envsetsCELERY_BROKER_URLtosentinel://. Outside Sentinel mode pi's manifests matchmaster.customCA, soenv.redis_ssl_verifyworks with a private CA. Non-root (securityContext.enabled) Python workloads write their own CA bundle to/tmp, or/dev/shm, and point the TLS variables at it. mcp-server gets a readiness probe on itshttpport and an 8 spreStopsleep.Where to look
charts/plane-enterprise/templates/_helpers.tpl—plane.redisClientEnv,plane.s3CACommandand the non-root CA bundletemplates/config-secrets/— credentials stay in Secrets;REDIS_URLrenders empty in Sentinel modetemplates/workloads/— env wiring and CA mounts, mcp-server'sREDIS_URLfix, readiness probe andpreStopsleepvalues.yaml,questions.yml,README.md,templates/NOTES.txtWatch out for:
services.redis.local_setup: true(the default), withoutenv.redis_sentinel_master, or withenv.remote_redis_url.env.redis_usernameandusernameKeyalso work outside Sentinel mode. api, live, silo and mcp-server read them; pi's fallback path doesn't.kubectl execshell, so commands run that way don't trust the CA. The README says so.Blast Radius
customCA— onlychecksum/configchanges, so pods restart once on upgradecustomCA— 7 more workloads, plus mcp-server when enabled, install the CA, then start the same entrypointcustomCA— Python workloads trust the CA through their own bundlepi_api_env_existingSecret— the Secret ownsCELERY_BROKER_URL, so it must setsentinel://preStopsleep keeps the old pod serving while the ingress moves off itProof
Important
Confidence: Medium — every Blast Radius flow ran on the cluster, including non-root with a private CA, and the
preStopsleep took mcp-server restart errors to 0 of 903, butreadOnlyRootFilesystemand gRPC trust on non-root aren't covered.helm lintand a render-and-assert script across every Redis mode, run locally and not part of this PR (676 checks, including the CA on every workload withREDIS_SENTINELS); renders compared withmaster; final/deployof makeplane/plane-ee#10916 at514342f2d1on this chart (run 42468892253), on the shared ElastiCache, bundled Redis and a test Sentinel with ACL users and a private CA. Co-editing, silo tasks, mcp-server and system checks pass on all three; killed, hung and killed primaries gave 220 of 220 edits each and 0 restarts; 0 passwords in 26 pods' logs.e5ea81fand5221b96, api, worker and beat-worker pass with verified TLS; 13 Python workloads installed the CA; 0 TLS errors in 8 services' logs; co-editing 24 of 24; silo expiry tasks 3 of 3.5221b96), 2 restarts: 2502and 1 timeout in about 90 answers. With the 8 spreStopsleep (fea7f47; the same sleep patched onto the deployment on the cluster), 3 restarts polled 4 times a second: 0 of 903 failed, against 48 of 903 without it (11502, 34 TLS handshake timeouts, 3 read timeouts). At 1 a second: 1 of 206 with it, a connection error 70 s after the restart./deploy type=enterprise helm_repo=http://helm-chart-test-build.s3-website.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/5221b96/plane-enterpriseon makeplane/plane-ee#10916, then setenv.redis_sentinelsandenv.redis_sentinel_master.readOnlyRootFilesystem(api can't start, because gunicorn needs a writable/tmp); gRPC trust on non-root (GRPC_DEFAULT_SSL_ROOTS_FILE_PATHstill points at the system bundle); the search-index Job ran, but only inferred, because it deletes itself; a wrong CA on live, live-exporter and silo only logs a connection error, and pods stay Ready.Rollout
$sentinelMinVersionintemplates/NOTES.txt, and bumpservices.mcp_server.image, whose default has no Sentinel support.Media
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