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Data is not replicated from Redis master to slaves

I am connecting to a small Redis cluster hosted by AWS which is not sharded, it has just one master and 3 slaves. I have been having difficulty with replication, and this is a simple reproduction of what I tried.

My clusters:

172.28.52.18:6379> CLUSTER NODES
cc378ecb71d02c2495e219ce7043ea343eb91c1f 172.28.52.18:6379@1122 myself,slave 6ce7214224036cc42ba272486d9e8fe5d1b11875 0 1610811475000 2 connected
1e17d7794741c7db491a888dc2bca76590b52e64 172.28.53.83:6379@1122 slave 6ce7214224036cc42ba272486d9e8fe5d1b11875 0 1610811476195 2 connected
6ce7214224036cc42ba272486d9e8fe5d1b11875 172.28.53.213:6379@1122 master - 0 1610811474182 2 connected 0-16383
d780dfbb4d33275e50c098032d1cceb1cd368a65 172.28.52.180:6379@1122 slave 6ce7214224036cc42ba272486d9e8fe5d1b11875 0 1610811475189 2 connected

Connect directly to master (172.28.53.213 in the above output) and set some data:

$ redis-cli -h 172.28.53.213
172.28.53.213:6379> SET key1 value1
OK

Then connect to one of the slaves:

$ redis-cli -h 172.28.52.180
172.28.52.180:6379> GET key1 value1
(error) MOVED 9189 172.28.53.213:6379

There are no shards and as I see it:

  1. All slots (0-16383) are owned by master
  2. All of the slaves are connected to master
  3. Everything is in sync

So I don't understand why I would be redirected to master. Shouldn't the slave have a copy?

I am aware that I can connect with -c so that redirects are followed automatically, but the whole point of replication should be that redirects aren't necessary!

Solution

  • Normally slave nodes will redirect clients to the authoritative master for the hash slot involved in a given command, however clients can use slaves in order to scale reads using the READONLY command.

    You can read about it here.

    If you want to read from a replica you have to execute READONLY command on it. And to revert to old behaviour there is a command READWRITE.