Operations

Operate Redis Agent Memory with backups, secret rotation, updates, FIPS posture, and network policy.

Redis Agent Memory is currently available in preview. Features and behavior are subject to change.

Backups

Back up metadata Redis. Losing metadata removes Control Plane store records and agent-key records.
Back up Store Redis according to the customer's memory-retention policy.
Back up Job Redis if background job replay or delayed-job preservation is required by the deployment's recovery policy.
Back up any external secret manager material used to recreate Kubernetes Secrets.
For Job Redis, use persistent storage where supported and a non-volatile / noeviction policy. OOM can still lose jobs or leave worker state invalid; capacity alerts and compatibility checks should make that caveat visible.
For Metadata Redis, use persistent storage and an eviction policy that does not evict store or agent-key records under memory pressure.

Secret rotation

Rotate Agent Memory agent keys through the Control Plane API:

curl -sS -X POST "$CP_URL/v1/api-keys/<key-id>/rotate" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RAM_ADMIN_TOKEN"

The response contains the new credential. Store it immediately; credentials are returned only when a key is minted or rotated.

Rotate the Control Plane admin token by updating ram-controlplane-admin-token. The Control Plane reads the token on use, so changing the token value does not require a Control Plane redeploy.

kubectl -n <namespace-name> create secret generic ram-controlplane-admin-token \
  --from-literal=token='<new-admin-token>' \
  --dry-run=client \
  -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -

Rotate the Agent Memory license by updating the license Secret and changing license.existingSecretChecksum so Helm rolls the Data Plane and worker pods. Agent Memory reads and validates the license file during process startup; updating only the Secret data is not sufficient.

kubectl -n <namespace-name> create secret generic ram-license \
  --from-file=license=./license \
  --dry-run=client \
  -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -

Calculate the new SHA-256 checksum. This value is used by Helm values to roll pods after the license Secret changes; it is not used to validate Secret integrity.

Linux macOS

LICENSE_CHECKSUM="$(sha256sum ./license | awk '{print $1}')"

license:
  existingSecret: ram-license
  existingSecretChecksum: "<new-license-checksum>"

Apply the updated values and verify both workloads rolled:

helm upgrade redis-agent-memory redis-ai/redis-agent-memory \
  --version <chart-version> \
  --namespace <namespace-name> \
  -f ram-values.yaml

kubectl -n <namespace-name> rollout status deploy/redis-agent-memory
kubectl -n <namespace-name> rollout status deploy/redis-agent-memory-worker

For immutable license Secrets, create a new Secret name instead, then update both license.existingSecret and license.existingSecretChecksum.

Rotate the shared Data Plane config by updating the config Secret and changing config.existingSecretChecksum. Rotate the Control Plane config by updating the config Secret and changing controlplane.config.existingSecretChecksum.

Updates

For every update:

Update chart version and image tags.
Recalculate Secret checksums for changed files.
Run helm upgrade.
Verify pod rollout and health endpoints.

Example:

helm upgrade redis-agent-memory redis-ai/redis-agent-memory \
  --version <chart-version> \
  --namespace <namespace-name> \
  -f ram-values.yaml

On small clusters, avoid --atomic unless the timeout and capacity are known to be sufficient.

Chart tests

The chart can render optional helm test resources when tests.enabled=true.

Enable and run the basic chart test:

helm upgrade --install redis-agent-memory redis-ai/redis-agent-memory \
  --version <chart-version> \
  --namespace <namespace-name> \
  -f ram-values.yaml \
  --set tests.enabled=true

helm test redis-agent-memory --namespace <namespace-name>

To run the API smoke test, also provide a configured store ID:

helm upgrade --install redis-agent-memory redis-ai/redis-agent-memory \
  --version <chart-version> \
  --namespace <namespace-name> \
  -f ram-values.yaml \
  --set tests.enabled=true \
  --set tests.smoke.enabled=true \
  --set tests.smoke.storeId=<store-id>

helm test redis-agent-memory --namespace <namespace-name> --logs

Use the smoke test only for auth-disabled Data Plane deployments or for environments where the in-cluster test path is allowed.

FIPS-oriented posture

The chart supports an opt-in FIPS-oriented posture for regulated environments:

security:
  profile: fips

You can also apply the bundled FIPS values overlay with the normal values file:

helm upgrade --install redis-agent-memory redis-ai/redis-agent-memory \
  --version <chart-version> \
  --namespace <namespace-name> \
  -f ram-values.yaml \
  -f deployment/redis-agent-memory/values-fips.yaml

When enabled, the chart sets MEM_SECURITY_PROFILE=fips on the Data Plane, worker, and Control Plane pods and enables FIPS-oriented runtime checks.

This is not a formal FIPS 140 compliance or validation claim. Treat it as a deployment posture and guardrail that must still be reviewed against the customer's compliance boundary.

When the posture is active, the Data Plane and worker reject config that:

enables skip_verify on outbound HTTP clients; or
uses non-rediss:// URLs for Redis connections covered by the posture.

The Control Plane runs under the same posture and rejects non-rediss:// metadata.urls or store_db.urls.

The Agent Memory API listener itself speaks HTTP inside the cluster. Edge TLS termination is owned by the hosting environment, such as ingress, service mesh, or external load balancer. Outbound TLS to Redis, embedding providers, LLM providers, and worker callback endpoints is configured through Agent Memory config and is covered by the posture checks.

Verify the runtime posture with:

kubectl -n <namespace-name> get deploy redis-agent-memory \
  -o jsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.containers[0].env[?(@.name=="MEM_SECURITY_PROFILE")].value}'

kubectl -n <namespace-name> logs deploy/redis-agent-memory | grep -i 'FIPS security profile'

Use the chart-generated Deployment to enable the FIPS-oriented posture. Do not override the container command to configure it.

Network policy

For auth-disabled Data Plane deployments, restrict access to trusted callers. For agent-key deployments behind a gateway, prevent direct bypass paths unless the direct caller also has a valid Agent Memory credential.

The chart includes deployment/redis-agent-memory/networkpolicy.reference.yaml as a reference manifest. It is not templated because allowed callers are environment-specific.

Customize the placeholders before applying it:

<namespace>: namespace where Agent Memory is installed.
redis-agent-memory: Helm release name used in this guide. If you use a different release name, update release-derived service and deployment names. nameOverride and fullnameOverride change rendered resource names, but the app.kubernetes.io/instance selector remains the Helm release name.
<caller-namespace> and caller pod labels: ingress controller, service mesh gateway, application pod, or approved internal caller allowed to call Agent Memory.

The reference policy default-denies ingress to Agent Memory chart pods, then allows TCP traffic to server pods on port 9000 from approved callers and the worker Deployment. It also includes a Control Plane stanza for port 9100 when controlplane.enabled=true. Review the manifest against the customer's CNI, ingress path, and service mesh behavior before production use.