Revisions 147, 148 in 9/stable channel¶

Oct 19, 2026

The first stable version of Charmed Valkey has been published. It is based on Valkey 9.0.4 and Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute Racoon). It supports both Kubernetes and VM substrates.

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Features¶

Automated deployment on Kubernetes and VM
Scaling a deployment up and down
High Availability and automated rolling restarts
Authentication and authorization by default
Backup and restore
- Integration with any AWS S3-compatible, Azure or Google (GCS) object storage
Security by design
- Peer TLS encryption by default
- Optional client TLS encryption
- Automated TLS certificate and CA rotation
- Root-less mode in K8s deployments
Support for client relations
Monitoring and logging
- Observability with Canonical Observability Stack (COS)
- Log file rotation
Support for persistent storage
- Multiple persistence modes
- Separate storage volumes for the database, logs and backup files
Juju user secrets for charm internal passwords
Minor version upgrades without downtime
Comprehensive Charm statuses

Compatibility¶

The charm provides dual-substrate compatibility: The same charm can be deployed on both Kubernetes and machine substrates.

Architecture	Charm Revision	Snap Revision	OCI Image
`amd64`	147	224	9.0.4-26.04
`arm64`	148	223	9.0.4-26.04

Software and charm interface requirements¶

Juju v3.6.29+
- Older minor versions of Juju 3 may be compatible, but are not officially supported.
Relation interface valkey_client
- support for data-interfaces v1
- backward compatibility for data-interfaces v0
Integration with a TLS provider charm
- tls-certificates interface v4
- certificate_transfer interface v1