NAME

gcloud alpha redis instances failover - failover a standard tier Cloud Memorystore for Redis instance from the master node to its replica

SYNOPSIS

gcloud alpha redis instances failover (INSTANCE : --region=REGION) [--async] [--data-protection-mode=DATA_PROTECTION_MODE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...]

DESCRIPTION

(ALPHA) Failover a standard tier Cloud Memorystore for Redis instance from the master node to its replica.

EXAMPLES

To failover an instance with the name 'my-redis-instance' in region 'us-central-1', run:

$ gcloud alpha redis instances failover my-redis-instance \ --region=us-central1

To failover an instance with the name 'my-redis-instance' in region 'us-central-1' without attempting to limit data loss, run:

$ gcloud alpha redis instances failover my-redis-instance \ --region=us-central1 --data-protection-mode=force-data-loss

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

Instance resource - Arguments and flags that specify the standard tier Cloud

Memorystore for Redis instance you want to failover. The arguments in this group can be used to specify the attributes of this resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in this group but can be set in other ways. To set the project attribute:

provide the argument instance on the command line with a fully specified name;

provide the argument --project on the command line;

set the property core/project.

This must be specified.

INSTANCE

ID of the instance or fully qualified identifier for the instance. To set the instance attribute:

  • provide the argument instance on the command line.

This positional argument must be specified if any of the other arguments in this group are specified.

--region=REGION

The name of the Redis region of the instance. Overrides the default redis/region property value for this command invocation.

To set the region attribute:

  • provide the argument instance on the command line with a fully specified name;

  • provide the argument --region on the command line;

  • set the property redis/region.

FLAGS

--async

Return immediately, without waiting for the operation in progress to complete.

--data-protection-mode=DATA_PROTECTION_MODE

Data protection mode to use for the failover. If not specified, defaults to 'limited-data-loss'. DATA_PROTECTION_MODE must be one of:

force-data-loss

Failover without data loss protection. Can cause significant data loss.

limited-data-loss

Failover with data loss protection that ensures loss is within system thresholds.

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS

These flags are available to all commands: --access-token-file, --account, --billing-project, --configuration, --flags-file, --flatten, --format, --help, --impersonate-service-account, --log-http, --project, --quiet, --trace-token, --user-output-enabled, --verbosity.

Run $ gcloud help for details.

API REFERENCE

This command uses the redis/v1 API. The full documentation for this API can be found at: https://cloud.google.com/memorystore/docs/redis/

NOTES

This command is currently in alpha and might change without notice. If this command fails with API permission errors despite specifying the correct project, you might be trying to access an API with an invitation-only early access allowlist. These variants are also available:

$ gcloud redis instances failover

$ gcloud beta redis instances failover