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feat: migrate Authentik Redis to Dragonfly operator #1495

Description

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Overview

Replace the Bitnami Redis StatefulSet bundled with Authentik with Dragonfly managed via its Kubernetes operator — a Redis-compatible, memory-efficient drop-in replacement.

Why

The bundled Bitnami Redis:

  • Single instance (no HA)
  • Memory-inefficient for small payloads (session data)
  • Managed inside the Authentik chart (hard to tune or share)

What Dragonfly provides

apiVersion: dragonflydb.io/v1alpha1
kind: Dragonfly
metadata:
  name: authentik-dragonfly
  namespace: authentik
spec:
  replicas: 2
  resources:
    requests:
      memory: 128Mi
  emulatedClusterMode: true
  topologySpreadConstraints:
    - maxSkew: 1
      topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
      whenUnsatisfiable: DoNotSchedule

Then configure Authentik:

authentik:
  redis:
    host: authentik-dragonfly.authentik.svc

Benefits

  • 25x less memory for sorted sets and small values vs. Redis
  • 2-replica HA with automatic primary election
  • Topology spread (2 replicas never on same node)
  • Native Redis protocol — zero application changes
  • PodMonitor available for Prometheus

Scope

Can be combined with issue #1494 (CloudNative-PG) to fully externalize the Authentik database layer, making the Authentik chart itself stateless.

Reference

  • Inspired by szinn/k8s-homelab Dragonfly setup
  • Operator chart: oci://ghcr.io/dragonflydb/dragonfly-operator/helm/dragonfly-operator
  • Manifest location: gitops/manifests/dragonfly/

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