Get started with Aiven for Dragonfly®

Get started with Aiven for Dragonfly by creating your service using the Aiven Console or Aiven CLI.

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Aiven for Dragonfly is fully supported by Aiven's service level agreements (SLAs), ensuring its capability to manage production workloads. As the latest addition to Aiven services, we recommend initiating a proof of concept (PoC) with Aiven for Dragonfly to thoroughly evaluate its capabilities and confirm its fit for your production requirements.

Create an Aiven for Dragonfly® service

Console

1. From your project, in the Services page, click Create service.

2. From the Select service page, click Dragonfly.

3. Select the cloud provider and region to host your service on.

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   The pricing for the same service can vary between different providers and regions. The service summary shows you the pricing for your selected options.

4. Select a service plan.

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   This determines the number of servers and the memory, CPU, and disk resources allocated to your service. See Plans & Pricing.

5. Optional: Add disk storage.

6. Enter a name for your service.

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   You cannot change the name after you create the service.

   You can fork the service with a new name instead.

7. Optional: Add tags.

8. Click Create service.

The Overview page of the service opens. It shows the connection parameters for your service, its current status, and the configuration options.

The status of the service is Rebuilding during its creation. When the status becomes Running, you can start using the service. This typically takes couple of minutes and can vary between cloud providers and regions.

CLI

Use Aiven CLI to create your service:

1. Determine the service plan, cloud provider, and region to use for your Aiven for Dragonfly service.

2. Run the following command to create Aiven for Dragonfly service named dragonfly-demo:

   avn service create dragonfly-demo   \
    --service-type dragonfly           \
    --cloud google-europe-north1       \
    --plan startup-4                   \
    --project dev-sandbox

To see:

• A full list of default flags, run avn service create -h
• Type-specific options, run avn service types -v

Create service integrations

Integrate Aiven for Dragonfly® with other Aiven services or third-party tools using the integration wizard available on the Aiven Console or Aiven CLI. Learn how to create service integrations.

Connect to Aiven for Dragonfly

Learn how to connect to Aiven for Dragonfly using different programming languages:

• redis-cli
• Go
• Node
• Python

Migration limitations

Aiven for Dragonfly does not support automatic migration of users, access control lists (ACLs), or service configurations from Redis or Valkey.

If you customized your Aiven for Caching or Aiven for Valkey service with specific settings, manually apply these configurations to Aiven for Dragonfly. Automatic transfer of custom configurations is unavailable due to differences in service configurations.

Explore other resources

• Learn about how Aiven for Dragonfly supports high availability.
• Migrate data from Aiven for Caching to Aiven for Dragonfly.
• Migrate data from external Dragonfly to Aiven for Dragonfly.