Initial commit: itential.valkey collection

[Amunagala-itential]

Summary

Initial scaffold of the standalone itential.valkey Ansible collection: installs Valkey as a Remi-free, EL9/Amazon Linux 2023-only alternative to itential.deployer's redis role.

This collection is transitional — it exists separately from itential.deployer only until roles/redis is retired there, at which point roles/valkey and its playbooks are intended to be merged directly into itential.deployer.

Depends on itential.deployer at runtime for the shared common/offline utility roles (referenced by FQCN).

Contents

• roles/valkey/ — the role, ported from itential.deployer's in-progress PR (#374 there), with common/offline calls rewritten to FQCN and internal variables renamed with a valkey_ prefix for namespace safety
• playbooks/valkey.yml, verify_valkey.yml, certify_valkey.yml, download_packages_valkey.yml
• docs/valkey_guide.md, example_inventories/valkey/
• CI scaffolding matching itential.deployer's conventions (ansible-lint, role-readme-check, changelog/publish workflows)

Test plan

• ansible-lint clean (0 failures) with both itential.valkey and itential.deployer registered as collections
• Live-tested against real AWS-hosted Rocky 9 hosts across HA2 (colocated Sentinel) and ASA (dedicated Sentinel) topologies: certify_valkey.yml passes clean on all hosts, cross-collection FQCN resolution confirmed working end-to-end

[Amunagala-itential]

Superseded — restructuring to use dev as the default branch, per the fork-based workflow used for itential.deployer. Content now lives on dev directly.