Support for redis sentinel password authentication #485

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MrUnknownDE · 2026-04-05T16:35:31+02:00

MrUnknownDE commented

2026-04-05 16:35:31 +02:00

Originally created by @matthew-242 on 1/23/2026

NetBox version

v4.5.1

Feature type

Change to existing functionality

Proposed functionality

Currently Netbox allows the password to be configured to connect to the redis nodes, but doesn't implement authentication towards the sentinel endpoints (Note: redis-server and redis-sentinel are seperate processes which may or may not run on the same instance)

I would propose this should be added as an extra field in the configuration.py file which feeds through the settings.py file.

Something similar was previously proposed in https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/pull/8049 and associated feature request and appears was closed due to a lack of testing rather than actually any fundamental disagreement with the proposal.

I would add the configuration in that PR would have been correct for cache component, but the django-rq component wouldn't have worked based on my testing.

I am happy to raise (and test) a pull request with proposed solution for this if accepted.

Use case

Enable authentication towards the redis-sentinel instances to improve security of a HA netbox deployment.

Database changes

N/A

External dependencies

N/A

*Originally created by @matthew-242 on 1/23/2026* ### NetBox version v4.5.1 ### Feature type Change to existing functionality ### Proposed functionality Currently Netbox allows the password to be configured to connect to the redis nodes, but doesn't implement authentication towards the sentinel endpoints (Note: redis-server and redis-sentinel are seperate processes which may or may not run on the same instance) I would propose this should be added as an extra field in the configuration.py file which feeds through the settings.py file. Something similar was previously proposed in https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/pull/8049 and associated feature request and appears was closed due to a lack of testing rather than actually any fundamental disagreement with the proposal. I would add the configuration in that PR would have been correct for cache component, but the django-rq component wouldn't have worked based on my testing. I am happy to raise (and test) a pull request with proposed solution for this if accepted. ### Use case Enable authentication towards the redis-sentinel instances to improve security of a HA netbox deployment. ### Database changes N/A ### External dependencies N/A

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Reference: github/netbox#485