Connecting to both master and slave in a replicated Redis cluster

Question

I'm setting up a simple 1 Master - N Slaves Redis cluster (low write round, high read count). How to set this up is well documented on the Redis website, however, there is no information (or I missed it) about how the clients (Node.js servers in my case) handle the cluster. Do my servers need to have 2 Redis connections opened: one for the Master (writes) and one towards a Slave load-balancer for reads? Does the Redis driver handle this automatically and send reads to slaves and writes to the Master?

Answer 1

The only approach I found was using thunk-redis library. This library supports connecting to Redis master-slave without having a cluster configured or using a sentinel.

You just simply add multiple IP addresses to the client:

const client = redis.createClient(['127.0.0.1:6379', '127.0.0.1:6380'], {onlyMaster: false});