Percona announced Valkey-proxy, a new open source project now accepted as an official Valkey project, aimed at making it easier for enterprises to move from Redis to the Linux Foundation-backed fork. The code is due to be released later in October and the project is targeting general availability in 2027 under the BSD-3-Clause licence, sitting between an application and a Valkey deployment so software written for a single standalone instance keeps working while gaining the scalability of cluster mode, and pooling backend connections so connection counts stay bounded. Percona’s Redis/Valkey general manager Kyle Davis told The Stack at Open Source Summit Europe in Prague that without a standard open source proxy many enterprises cannot migrate, leaving them on commercial Redis, which is expensive to license and run, or on a cloud provider’s proprietary, platform-tied proxy, and described the work as addressing an ‘original sin’ inherited from Redis that made it hard to scale on top of the data store.
Percona's Valkey-proxy promises an easier route from standalone Redis to Valkey clusters
Percona announced Valkey-proxy, a new open source project now accepted as an official Valkey project, aimed at making it easier for enterprises to move from Redis to the Linux Foundation-backed fork. The code is due to be released later in October and the project is targeting general availability in 2027 under the BSD-3-Clause licence, sitting between an application and a Valkey deployment so software written for a single standalone instance keeps working while gaining the scalability of cluster mode, and pooling backend connections so connection counts stay bounded. Percona's Redis/Valkey general manager Kyle Davis told The Stack at Open Source Summit Europe in Prague that without a standard open source proxy many enterprises cannot migrate, leaving them on commercial Redis, which is expensive to license and run, or on a cloud provider's proprietary, platform-tied proxy, and described the work as addressing an 'original sin' inherited from Redis that made it hard to scale on top of the data store.
Source: Thestack