How does one upgrade to a newer version of Redis with zero downtime? Redis slaves are read-only, so it seems like you’d have to take down the master and your site would be read-only for 45 seconds or more while you waited for it to reload the DB.
Is there a way around this?
When taking the node offline, promote the slave to master using the SLAVEOF command, then when you bring it back online you set it up as a slave and it will copy all data from the online node.
You may also need to make sure your client can handle changed/missing master nodes appropriately.
If you want to get really fancy, you can set up your client to promote a slave if it detects an error writing to the master.