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Creating and Testing a Redis Cluster

Explore the process of manually creating a Redis cluster by setting up multiple Redis instances, configuring cluster mode, and linking masters with slaves. Understand cluster creation commands, connection methods, and how to verify cluster status to manage scalable Redis deployments.

There are two ways to create a Redis cluster, the easy way and the hard way. The easy way is to create a cluster using the create-cluster command. The hard way is to configure the Redis servers to create a cluster manually. In this lesson, we will look at the hard way.

Some of the commands used to create a cluster were introduced in Redis 5. Since the highest version supported in Windows is 3.2, it will not be possible to create a cluster in Windows using the method described in this lesson.

Creating Redis instances

The first step in creating a cluster is to ...