https://coredns.website.cncfstack.com/tags/redis_cache/Recent content in redis_cache on CoreDNS: DNS and Service DiscoveryHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usCoreDNS - All Rights ReservedMon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://coredns.website.cncfstack.com/explugins/redis_cache/Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://coredns.website.cncfstack.com/explugins/redis_cache/Description redis_cache stores DNS responses in a shared Redis-compatible backend (Redis, Valkey, or any RESP-protocol server) so that multiple CoreDNS instances can amortize upstream lookups across the fleet — for example several pods in a Kubernetes cluster, or a fleet of node-local-dns daemons. It is intended to sit behind the built-in cache plugin, which stays as the L1 (in-process) cache; redis_cache is the L2 (networked) cache. If the Redis backend is unreachable the plugin becomes a noop and lookups continue to flow through the rest of the chain.