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sohutv/cachecloud

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TLDR

A web-based control panel for managing hundreds of Redis instances at large scale, with support for standalone, sentinel, and cluster deployments.

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    What it does
      Manage Redis at scale
      Monitor performance
      Elastic scaling
    Redis modes
      Standalone
      Sentinel
      Cluster
    Features
      Web dashboard
      Client SDK
      Alerts
    Audience
      Platform teams
      DevOps engineers
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Provision and monitor hundreds of Redis instances from a single web dashboard without manual server management.

USE CASE 2

Scale Redis capacity up or down without downtime by adding or removing nodes through the platform.

USE CASE 3

Set up alerting and usage dashboards to catch Redis performance issues before they affect your applications.

Tech stack

JavaRedisHTMLKubernetes

Getting it running

Difficulty · hard Time to first run · 1day+

Requires a Java backend deployment plus existing Redis infrastructure and host machines to manage.

In plain English

CacheCloud is a management platform for Redis, an in-memory data store widely used to speed up applications by caching frequently accessed information. Running Redis at large scale, across hundreds of machines and thousands of instances, creates significant operational work: provisioning new instances, monitoring performance, scaling capacity up or down, and handling failures. CacheCloud is designed to make that work manageable through a web-based control panel. The README is primarily in Chinese, it was developed by Sohu TV, a large Chinese media company. The platform supports the three main ways Redis is typically deployed: as a single standalone instance, as a primary-and-replica pair with a Sentinel process watching for failures, and as a distributed Cluster that splits data across multiple nodes. Through CacheCloud, teams can build and migrate Redis environments, manage the host machines they run on, monitor usage statistics, and set up alerts when something goes wrong. A key feature is elastic scaling: the platform lets operators add or remove capacity without disrupting running applications. There is also a client-integration layer that provides SDKs and monitoring hooks so application code can connect to the managed Redis instances and report usage back to the platform. The README shares internal scale figures from Sohu TV's own deployment: over 800 billion Redis commands processed per day, more than 18 terabytes of total memory in use across 420 applications and 4,800 instances, running on a mix of 80 physical machines and 360 Kubernetes pods. Cost comparison charts in the README show the platform positioned as cheaper than using commercial cloud-vendor managed Redis services at that scale. The project is open source, with documentation and a quickstart guide available in the repository wiki. Contact options listed include several QQ and WeChat groups for Chinese-language users.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Help me set up CacheCloud to manage a Redis Sentinel cluster across 3 servers and configure automatic failover.
Prompt 2
Show me how to configure the CacheCloud client SDK to connect to a managed Redis Cluster instance and report usage metrics back to the dashboard.
Prompt 3
Walk me through migrating from standalone Redis instances to a Redis Cluster using CacheCloud without disrupting running applications.
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