[antirez]

In case you wonder, after Redis 2.6 RC1 this is my #1 commitment, to provide a standard Redis failover tool. Note that Redis Cluster that will be also be one of the big focus after 2.6 is not the real fix for this: many users just have two instances, one master and a slave for failover, or multiple instances that are coupled this way and are conceptually single servers. Often they don't actually need Redis Cluster, or even can not use Redis Cluster (because does not implement the full Redis API, but a subset). So what happens? All this users have to invent an HA system for Redis again and again.

It's still a work in progress but the idea is that the standard Redis failover will be based on a stand-alone daemon that is called redis-sentinel that you can place at different positions in your network. It talks with other redis-sentinels, and if there are the right condition the failover is performed. So there is no proxy or alike, nor the server itself will be touched.