valkey-io/valkey-operator

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Kubernetes operator for managing Valkey on Kubernetes (WIP).

Stars: 359
Forks: 58
Open beginner issues: 4
Indexed issues: 61
Avg merge: 1d 12h
Merged PRs (30d): 11

Dominant language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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61 open issues indexed

[BUG]: Reverting a scale-in right after the drain leaves an empty shard the operator never recovers Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#445 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[BUG]: Asynchronous slot migration failures are retried silently and never surfaced Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#444 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
[FEATURE]: Propagate role label to pods Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#443 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
[BUG]: Node-failure checks in `GetSyncedReplicas` and `countReadyShards` never match Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#441 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
[BUG]: a standalone ValkeyNode never starts, it asks for a Secret that cannot exist Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#438 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
[FEATURE]: Make cluster-node-timeout user-configurable Open

enhancement

valkey-io/valkey-operator#434 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Do not write spec.config that Valkey cannot parse Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#430 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2026
networking: operator-managed NetworkPolicies under spec.networking.networkPolicy Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#428 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 6, 2026
[ISSUE] Guard unknown enum config values on older Valkey images Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#423 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 3, 2026
[ISSUE] Prevent Valkey FATAL CONFIG FILE ERROR when spec.config exceeds image version Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#422 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
[FEATURE]: Change the controller `DefaultImage` and `DefaultExporterImage` from const to var Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#417 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Adopt ACL DIGEST once the version gate allows, and drop the revision user Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#416 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 31, 2026
[FEATURE]: Allow setting serviceAccountName on ValkeyCluster pods Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#414 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 28, 2026
[FEATURE]: Allow Unmanaged ACLs Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#413 · 7 comments · Opened Aug 28, 2026
[BUG]: a node whose pod never becomes Ready is not recovered by correcting the spec Open

bug

valkey-io/valkey-operator#408 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 27, 2026
chore: define default deployment scope and tune operator resource limits Open

chore

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#407 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 27, 2026
refactor: parse CLUSTER NODES into a struct instead of seven ad-hoc field walks Open

help wanted refactor

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#406 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 27, 2026
[chore] Render valkey.conf per ValkeyNode instead of one shared ConfigMap Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#404 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 26, 2026
[BUG]: ValkeyNode with unparseable topology labels is never cleaned up and wedges the cluster in Reconciling Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#403 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026
[BUG]: User config silently overriding operator-owned directives should be surfaced Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#393 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
[TEST]: Add AST scan to detect required permissions Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#389 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
[FEATURE]: add Valkey CRD for standalone instances Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#388 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
[FEATURE]: Support Matrix and Versioning Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#375 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Improve CI turnaround time Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#371 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 10, 2026
networking: external access under spec.networking.external Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#367 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 6, 2026
[TEST]: e2e coverage for staged WorkloadRevision template rolls Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#362 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2026
[Design] split tls certificate secrets Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#360 · 10 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2026
(chore) Enable GitHub merge queue on `main` Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#353 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2026
[BUG]: ACL misconfiguration: _operator user can CONFIG SET all parameters Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#335 · 13 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2026
[FEATURE]: Expose reconciliation performance metrics for Prometheus Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#334 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2026
[Epic] ValkeyCluster spec.networking Open

crd enhancement tls

valkey-io/valkey-operator#318 · 15 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 15, 2026
[FEATURE]: Observability when pods are unschedulable due to scheduling conflicts Open

enhancement observability scheduling

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#313 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 15, 2026
[FEATURE]: Failback primaries back to node-index=0 Open

data-safety enhancement scheduling

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#311 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 15, 2026
PodDisruptionBudget should be scoped per shard instead of per cluster Open

data-safety

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#303 · 12 comments · Opened Jul 12, 2026
using inititialdelay seconds even using startupprobes Open

question

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 63/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#302 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 11, 2026
[epic] Implementation of Scheduling API Open

enhancement scheduling

valkey-io/valkey-operator#299 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 10, 2026
Umbrella: spec.networking for in-cluster endpoint & connectivity configuration Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#297 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2026
[Design] External cluster access for client connections outside Kubernetes Open

crd enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#276 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 25, 2026
Skip the roll when a shard has no healthy replica to fail over to Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#267 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 19, 2026
[chore] Introduce client registry and provider to centralise Valkey client instantiation Open

chore tech-debt

valkey-io/valkey-operator#266 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 18, 2026
[epic] ValkeyCluster scheduling & placement (shard spread, primary balance, zones, failover) Open

cluster enhancement scheduling

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#265 · Opened Jun 18, 2026
[enhancement] Introduce runtime version detection and a framework for gating features by Valkey version Open

enhancement tech-debt

valkey-io/valkey-operator#263 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 18, 2026
[feat] CRD support for Valkey 9.1 database-level ACL permissions (db=) Open

acl crd enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#262 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 18, 2026
[bug] Handle quorum loss with persistence enabled (stuck/unschedulable pods) Open

bug data-safety help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#256 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 17, 2026
[feat] Rolling update strategy with temporary replica for zero-data-loss Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#255 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 16, 2026
[enhancement] Use per-node ROLE check instead of reverse ordinal when primary cannot be identified from cluster state Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#251 · Opened Jun 12, 2026
Primaries balanced across workers Open

enhancement scheduling

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#247 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 11, 2026
(feat): Support mtls certificate based authentication Open

enhancement tls

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#243 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 10, 2026
[refactor] Prevent rolling the Cluster for including keys for live-config management Open

config tech-debt

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#227 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 6, 2026
[Design] `ValkeyCell` CR proposal Open

crd

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

valkey-io/valkey-operator#226 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 6, 2026

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