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Overview

Adds opt-in Redis Cluster support to every service component. Standalone
Redis remains the default — existing deployments require zero configuration
changes
and behave exactly as before.

Validated in production against Google Cloud Memorystore in cluster mode with
TLS and CA-certificate verification.


Motivation

The service previously constructed Redis connections with inline
new IORedis({ ... }) calls in four separate modules, each hardcoded to
standalone mode. Connecting to a clustered Redis (GCP Memorystore cluster, AWS
ElastiCache cluster) was impossible: the client would only ever reach a single
shard and fail with MOVED/CROSSSLOT errors under load.

This PR centralizes connection creation behind a single factory and teaches
every component to speak the Redis Cluster protocol when asked.


What's new

🔌 Cluster mode (opt-in, auto-detected)

Enable it either explicitly or implicitly:

# Explicit
USE_REDIS_CLUSTER=true
REDIS_HOST=node1.example.com:6379

# Auto-detected — a comma in REDIS_HOST turns on cluster mode
REDIS_HOST=node1:6379,node2:6379,node3:6379

🔐 TLS with CA-certificate validation

REDIS_TLS=true
REDIS_CA=/etc/redis-tls/ca.crt   # PEM file → full cert verification

When REDIS_CA is set it takes precedence and enables validated TLS.
REDIS_TLS=true on its own keeps the previous rejectUnauthorized: false
behaviour for backward compatibility.

🧩 BullMQ cluster-safety

Queue, Worker and QueueEvents receive a {codeapi} hash-tag prefix in cluster
mode so all BullMQ keys map to a single hash slot (a hard requirement for BullMQ
on Redis Cluster). Standalone deployments keep their existing key layout — no
migration needed.


New environment variables

Variable Default Description
USE_REDIS_CLUSTER false Force cluster mode. Also auto-enabled when REDIS_HOST contains a comma.
REDIS_CA (unset) Path to a PEM CA-cert file. Enables TLS with full certificate validation; takes precedence over REDIS_TLS.

Existing variables are unchanged and fully backward-compatible:
REDIS_HOST, REDIS_PORT, REDIS_PASSWORD, REDIS_TLS,
REDIS_USE_ALTERNATIVE_DNS_LOOKUP, REDIS_KEEP_ALIVE_MS.


Implementation

service/src/redis-connection.ts (new — single source of truth)

Export Responsibility
createRedisConnection(overrides) Returns Redis | Cluster based on env; each caller passes its own retry / readyCheck overrides
isClusterMode() USE_REDIS_CLUSTER=true or comma in REDIS_HOST
parseRedisNodes() Parses REDIS_HOST into [{ host, port }] startup nodes
buildTlsOptions() REDIS_CA{ ca } (validated); else REDIS_TLS=true{ rejectUnauthorized: false }; else no TLS
bullmqPrefix() '{codeapi}' in cluster mode, undefined otherwise

Refactored clients

All four inline new IORedis({ ... }) blocks now call createRedisConnection():

  • queue.ts — shared BullMQ connection + prefix: bullmqPrefix() on Queue / QueueEvents
  • workers.tsprefix: bullmqPrefix() on both Worker instances
  • egress-ledger.ts — mutation-connection pool made cluster-safe (Cluster has no .duplicate(), so a fresh createRedisConnection() is used instead)
  • tool-call-server.ts, file-server.ts — session-state clients

service/src/service/replay-state.ts

scanKeys() is now cluster-aware. ioredis.Cluster has no top-level
scanStream, so in cluster mode the helper fans out across every master node
via cluster.nodes('master') and streams SCAN on each. Masters own disjoint
hash-slot ranges, so results never overlap. This fixes the runtime crash:

TypeError: <client>.scanStream is not a function

service/src/config.ts

Adds the USE_REDIS_CLUSTER flag to the parsed env.

Helm chart (helm/codeapi/)

New values.yaml surface:

redis:
  cluster:
    enabled: false
    nodes: ""                        # "host1:6379,host2:6379,host3:6379"
  tls:
    enabled: false
    caSecretName: ""                 # Secret holding the CA cert
    caKey: "ca"
    caMountPath: /etc/redis-tls/ca.crt
  useAlternativeDnsLookup: false     # required for GCP Memorystore cluster TLS

New _helpers.tpl templates — codeapi.redis.clusterEnabled,
codeapi.redis.tlsEnv, codeapi.redis.caVolume, codeapi.redis.caVolumeMount
— are wired into all five component Deployments, including mounting the CA cert
from a Secret into each pod.

service/.env.example

Documents every new variable with inline guidance.


Tests

New service/src/redis-connection.test.ts — 18 unit tests, no live Redis required:

Suite Coverage
parseRedisNodes single host, embedded port, comma list, whitespace trimming, default fallback
isClusterMode explicit flag, comma auto-detect, standalone
buildTlsOptions no TLS, REDIS_TLS only, REDIS_CA file read, CA precedence over REDIS_TLS, missing CA file
bullmqPrefix standalone, cluster via flag, cluster via comma host
✓ 18 pass   redis-connection.test.ts
✓ 35 pass   egress-ledger / egress-gateway / replay-state (unchanged, still green)

Backward compatibility

  • ✅ Standalone is the default — no env changes for existing deployments.
  • REDIS_TLS=true without REDIS_CA keeps the prior rejectUnauthorized: false behaviour.
  • ✅ BullMQ key prefixes are added only in cluster mode; standalone key layout is untouched.
  • ✅ No breaking changes to any existing environment variable.

How to verify

cd service
bun test src/redis-connection.test.ts     # 18/18 pass

# render the Helm chart in cluster mode
helm template codeapi helm/codeapi \
  --set redis.enabled=false \
  --set redis.cluster.enabled=true \
  --set redis.cluster.nodes="n1:6379\,n2:6379\,n3:6379" \
  --set redis.tls.enabled=true \
  --set redis.tls.caSecretName=my-memorystore-secret

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@danny-avila all issues should be fixed

Added : Merged from upstream to fix conflicts

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* Refactor job processing in workers.ts for improved readability and maintainability.
* Introduce Redis connection management in redis-connection.ts.
* Add tests for Redis connection utilities in redis-connection.test.ts.
* Implement TLS options handling for secure Redis connections.
* Enhance error handling and logging throughout the job processing flow.
* Updated the project dependency to version 2.3.1.
* Ensured compatibility with existing codebase.
* Ran tests to verify functionality post-upgrade.
- Hash-tag per-execution Redis keys ({execution_id}) in replay-state and
  tool-call-server so multi-key Lua scripts, MULTI/EXEC and multi-key DELs
  stay on one Cluster slot (avoids CROSSSLOT errors)
- Add shared hashTag/stripHashTag/scanKeys helpers in redis-connection
- Replace blocking KEYS with cluster-aware SCAN in tool-call-server cleanup
- Fix wait-for-redis probe to target a single startup node in cluster mode
  via new codeapi.redis.probeHost/probePort helpers
- Gate REDIS_TLS/CA env and volumes behind external Redis (not bundled subchart)
- Document redis.enabled=false requirement for cluster mode in README
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P1 Badge Preserve standalone keys while adding hash tags

On any ordinary standalone deployment upgraded while a PTC execution is active, this unconditional transformation changes every key from forms such as exec_state:<id> and tool_call:session:<id> to braced variants. The new processes therefore cannot find state written by the previous version, and mixed-version pods in a rolling deployment cannot interoperate, causing continuations and blocking tool calls to fail for up to the 10-minute TTL even though cluster mode is disabled. Return the raw ID outside cluster mode or dual-read/migrate legacy keys during rollout.

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if (isClusterMode()) {
const nodes = parseRedisNodes();
return new Cluster(nodes, {

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P1 Badge Hash-tag runtime-session registry keys

When USE_REDIS_CLUSTER=true and runtime sessions use affinity or strict mode, this Cluster client is also consumed by runtime-session/registry.ts, whose record-write and removal scripts pass rtsx:sess:<id> and rtsx:lock:<id> as two keys without a common hash tag. Although the replay keys are now tagged, these unchanged registry scripts still fail with CROSSSLOT, preventing stateful executions from persisting or removing their session records; tag all registry keys for a runtime-session ID consistently.

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redis:
enabled: false # required — otherwise the bundled subchart is used instead
cluster:
enabled: true
nodes: 'node-1:6379,node-2:6379,node-3:6379'

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P1 Badge Make the documented cluster values renderable

Using this new example verbatim sets redis.enabled=false without defining redis.external, which is also absent from the chart defaults. The chart still evaluates .Values.redis.external.port in codeapi.redis.port and .Values.redis.external.password in templates/secrets.yaml, so Helm aborts with a nil-pointer template error before a cluster deployment can be installed. Add cluster-specific port/password handling or provide a default redis.external map in the example/default values.

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const batchKeys = keys.slice(offset, offset + CLEANUP_BATCH_SIZE);
const values = await redis.mget(...batchKeys);

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P2 Badge Avoid cross-slot MGET in the stale sweep

When Redis Cluster contains state for two or more executions, scanKeys returns keys tagged with different execution IDs and this batch passes them together to MGET. Redis Cluster requires every key in a multi-key command to share a slot, so the call normally raises CROSSSLOT; the outer catch then returns zero and prevents the entire stale-execution cleanup pass from running. Fetch these keys individually, use a cluster-aware pipeline, or group them by hash slot.

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const ca = readCACert();
if (ca) return { ca };
if (process.env.REDIS_TLS === 'true') return { rejectUnauthorized: false };

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P2 Badge Fail closed when a configured Redis CA cannot be read

When an operator sets both REDIS_CA and REDIS_TLS=true but the CA path is missing or unreadable, readCACert() returns null and this branch silently falls back to rejectUnauthorized: false. A typo or permissions problem therefore downgrades a deployment that explicitly requested CA validation to unauthenticated TLS while merely logging a warning; distinguish an unset CA from a failed configured CA and refuse to create the connection in the latter case.

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const trimmed = entry.trim();
const colonIdx = trimmed.lastIndexOf(':');
if (colonIdx > 0) {
const potentialPort = Number(trimmed.slice(colonIdx + 1));
if (Number.isInteger(potentialPort) && potentialPort > 0) {
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P2 Badge Parse IPv6 Redis startup nodes without truncating them

When REDIS_HOST contains a literal IPv6 startup node, this last-colon heuristic misparses a plain address such as 2001:db8::1 as host 2001:db8: on port 1; the standard bracketed form [2001:db8::1]:6379 instead leaves the brackets in the host, which Node DNS cannot resolve. Redis therefore cannot connect in IPv6-only environments. Parse bracketed IPv6 explicitly and treat an unbracketed value containing multiple colons as a host without an embedded port; the Helm probe helpers need the corresponding handling.

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Resolve conflicts in service/src/config.ts, queue.ts, workers.ts:
- Keep main's execution-profile logic (EXECUTION_PROFILE, queueNames,
  validateQueuedExecutionProfile, profile trace attributes)
- Keep feature's Redis cluster changes (bullmqPrefix on Queue/QueueEvents/
  Worker, USE_REDIS_CLUSTER env)
- Preserve canonical 4-space prettier formatting

Pre-existing typecheck errors (RedisClient vs Redis in registry/replay-state,
disconnectTimeout in redis-connection) are unchanged from the feature branch
tip and tracked by open PR review comments.
Resolve the PR-base conflicts while preserving both upstream execution routing
and Redis Cluster support, including cluster-aware queue prefixes and replay
state keys.
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