Valkey Experimental

Valkey & Redis
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Hi,

We want to use version 7.2 of Percona Valkey in production.

I see that the official Percona documentation states that Valkey must be installed using the percona-release package, but in experimental mode.

If I enable experimental mode, I see Valley versions 7.2.5 / 7.2.6 and 8.0.0 available.

Do you know why Valkey is still in experimental mode, even for version 7.2.5?
And do you know when Valkey will be available as an official release?

Thank you so much

Cédric P.

2

@cpetit

I see even without using experimental tag it works. So have you tried like this ?

[root@node0 /]# sudo percona-release enable valkey
* Enabling the Percona Valkey repository
<*> All done!

But yes the packages available earlier in experimental repos. I’ll double confirm about this it they made official for production or not yet.

Well, until then you can also get the packages from the official Valkey repos directly.

3

Hello and thank you @anil.joshi

I had already tested it by putting Valkey in the release tag.

root@49a732db133e:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# ls -la | grep valkey
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  284 Apr  7 15:22 percona-valkey-release.list

root@49a732db133e:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# percona-release enable valkey
* Enabling the Percona Valkey repository

root@49a732db133e:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# percona-release show
The following repositories are enabled on your system:
grep: /etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory
pmm2-client - release
prel - release
telemetry - release
valkey - release
<*> All done!

root@49a732db133e:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
...
Hit:7 http://repo.percona.com/valkey/apt bookworm InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done

But I don’t have any version of Valkey available

root@49a732db133e:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt-cache policy valkey
N: Unable to locate package valkey

root@49a732db133e:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt search valkey
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done

It seems that Valkey packages are only available with the experimental tag.

Thank you

Cédric P.

4

Hi, I confirmed and the valkey package from percona-release seems to be still in some experimental phase so its better you can check out in Valkey’s official repo released by the Linux Foundation until our binaries are ready to be released for Prod.

5

Hi,

Thank you so mush @anil.joshi.
I’ll use the Valkey source code and compile the version I’ll use in production.

Cédric P.