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Initial release of Itential Valkey Collection - #3
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Standalone Ansible collection installing Valkey as a Remi-free, EL9/Amazon Linux 2023-only alternative to itential.deployer's redis role. Depends on itential.deployer at runtime for the shared common and offline utility roles. This collection is transitional: it exists separately from itential.deployer only until roles/redis is retired there, at which point roles/valkey and its playbooks are intended to be merged directly into itential.deployer.
Replaces the "Quick Start" stub (which just linked out to itential.deployer's own README) with an actual step-by-step flow: installing both collections, setting up the working directory, building a combined inventory (Valkey + MongoDB + Platform), and the verify/install/certify command sequence across both collections. Also documents a real gap found while writing this: itential.deployer's os.yml doesn't yet target valkey_master/valkey_replica/valkey_sentinel, so baseline OS/firewalld setup doesn't run against fresh Valkey hosts via the normal flow. Tracked as a known limitation for now, not fixed here since it lives in a different repo.
- Remove updateChangelog.yml -- redundant with the changelog step already inside publish_ansible_collection.yml (same trigger, same action) - Remove dead valkey_offline_*_archives_dir vars -- leftover from roles/redis's source-tarball download path, which roles/valkey never has (grepped: zero references in roles/valkey/tasks/) - Add Amazon Linux 2023 to the example inventory's platform-support comment, which still said EL9-only from before that support was added - Fix README's incorrect claim that itential.deployer isn't installed automatically -- ansible-galaxy does resolve and install galaxy.yml dependencies by default - Trim README's Getting Started section back to Valkey-only scope, linking to itential.deployer's own README for the rest of the stack instead of re-explaining it inline - Drop the redundant _valkey suffix from playbook names now that this is a standalone single-component collection: verify_valkey.yml -> verify.yml, certify_valkey.yml -> certify.yml, download_packages_valkey.yml -> download_packages.yml (valkey.yml itself is unchanged -- it's named after the component, not a suffixed verb)
Same class of issue as both prior review rounds: docs copied from roles/redis's redis_guide.md weren't fully adapted to this collection. - "this deployer"/"the deployer" -> "this role" where the text is actually describing roles/valkey itself, not itential.deployer - Two references to `redis_guide.md` (a file that only exists in itential.deployer, not in this repo) now link to its real location on GitHub instead of a dangling local filename - The example inventory's TLS comment pointed at a nonexistent tls_guide.md; TLS is actually documented inline in this collection's own docs/valkey_guide.md, so it now points there instead Found via a proactive /code-review pass looking specifically for more instances of the dead-copy-paste-reference pattern the reviewer had already caught twice.
Per Nick's review comment (via kvelarde-itential): several files still carried "Copyright (c) 2024" copied forward from roles/redis, even though every file in this collection was actually authored in 2026. Fixed all 22 instances for consistency with the 6 files that already correctly said 2026.
Initial commit: itential.valkey collection
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Initial release of Itential Valkey Collection