Redis Information

Co-browse now supports Redis as the default database.

Use Cases New customers OOB Redis is the defaults storage, deployment guide will have short instruction on setting it up. Redis is a prerequisite.

Old customers migrating They will have to

set up Redis before updating Co-browse to new version, set new required Configuration options for Co-browse. Data is NOT migrated.

During the switch ongoing Co-browse sessions will be lost, as well as history data.

Retention policy will be aligned with Cassandra's.

Old customers NOT migrating Option to stay on C* is still on the table. To do that, customers will have to manually modify setenv.bat/sh file shipped with Co-browse, instruction will be provided.

Instruction draft:

Open setenv.bat/sh file (depending on OS) Find -DCOBROWSE_APP_MODE=redis Replace with -DCOBROWSE_APP_MODE=cassandra

Configuration and feature control Configuration options There will be new configuration options to connect to Redis.

[redis]

 host
 port
 + options for retention policy (exact names tbd during implementation)

[cassandraEmbedded] section will be removed from the templates.

Defaults For Premise Default DB is Redis. NOTE: This is configured not in Configuration Server app options, but in setenv.bat/sh file. Default host/port is localhost/6380.