diff --git a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/ConfigMap-blocky-valkey-init-scripts.yaml b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/ConfigMap-blocky-valkey-init-scripts.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..de5d0d775
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/ConfigMap-blocky-valkey-init-scripts.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: blocky-valkey-init-scripts
+  labels:
+    helm.sh/chart: valkey-0.9.3
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+    app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
+    app.kubernetes.io/version: "9.0.3"
+    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
+data:
+  init.sh: |-
+    #!/bin/sh
+    set -eu
+
+    # Default config paths
+    VALKEY_CONFIG=${VALKEY_CONFIG_PATH:-/data/conf/valkey.conf}
+
+    LOGFILE="/data/init.log"
+    DATA_DIR="/data/conf"
+
+    # Logging function (outputs to stderr and file)
+    log() {
+      echo "$(date) $1" | tee -a "$LOGFILE" >&2
+    }
+
+    # Clean old log if requested
+    if [ "${KEEP_OLD_LOGS:-false}" != "true" ]; then
+      rm -f "$LOGFILE"
+    fi
+
+    if [ -f "$LOGFILE" ]; then
+      log "Detected restart of this instance ($HOSTNAME)"
+    fi
+
+    log "Creating configuration in $DATA_DIR..."
+    mkdir -p "$DATA_DIR"
+    rm -f "$VALKEY_CONFIG"
+
+
+    # Base valkey.conf
+    log "Generating base valkey.conf"
+    {
+      echo "port 6379"
+      echo "protected-mode no"
+      echo "bind * -::*"
+      echo "dir /data"
+    } >>"$VALKEY_CONFIG"
+    # Replica mode configuration
+    log "Configuring replication mode"
+
+    # Use POD_INDEX from Kubernetes metadata
+    POD_INDEX=${POD_INDEX:-0}
+    IS_MASTER=false
+
+    # Check if this is pod-0 (master)
+    if [ "$POD_INDEX" = "0" ]; then
+      IS_MASTER=true
+      log "This pod (index $POD_INDEX) is configured as MASTER"
+    else
+      log "This pod (index $POD_INDEX) is configured as REPLICA"
+    fi
+
+    # Configure replica settings
+    if [ "$IS_MASTER" = "false" ]; then
+      MASTER_HOST="blocky-valkey-0.blocky-valkey-headless.blocky.svc.cluster.local"
+      MASTER_PORT="6379"
+
+      log "Configuring replica to follow master at $MASTER_HOST:$MASTER_PORT"
+
+      {
+        echo ""
+        echo "# Replica Configuration"
+        echo "replicaof $MASTER_HOST $MASTER_PORT"
+        echo "replica-announce-ip blocky-valkey-$POD_INDEX.blocky-valkey-headless.blocky.svc.cluster.local"
+      } >>"$VALKEY_CONFIG"
+    fi
+
+    # Append extra configs if present
+    if [ -f /usr/local/etc/valkey/valkey.conf ]; then
+      log "Appending /usr/local/etc/valkey/valkey.conf"
+      cat /usr/local/etc/valkey/valkey.conf >>"$VALKEY_CONFIG"
+    fi
+    if [ -d /extravalkeyconfigs ]; then
+      log "Appending files in /extravalkeyconfigs/"
+      cat /extravalkeyconfigs/* >>"$VALKEY_CONFIG"
+    fi
diff --git a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/ConfigMap-blocky.yaml b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/ConfigMap-blocky.yaml
index 5b51f41c0..30f71911f 100644
--- a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/ConfigMap-blocky.yaml
+++ b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/ConfigMap-blocky.yaml
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ data:
       cacheTimeNegative: 30m
 
     redis:
-      address: redis-replication-blocky-master.blocky:6379
+      address: blocky-valkey.blocky:6379
       required: true
 
     prometheus:
diff --git a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/Deployment-blocky.yaml b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/Deployment-blocky.yaml
index ad624a2c3..59874056d 100644
--- a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/Deployment-blocky.yaml
+++ b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/Deployment-blocky.yaml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ spec:
   template:
     metadata:
       annotations:
-        checksum/configMaps: 841b86021474fd4676f79d87f40b9003cbde5ace583c0c78da5bb8de6dfeafbb
+        checksum/configMaps: 547195f75f9fdf4345c81fd17b765851cf66dcac82b124e8780458e7ca25431b
       labels:
         app.kubernetes.io/controller: main
         app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
diff --git a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/PodMonitor-blocky-valkey.yaml b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/PodMonitor-blocky-valkey.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6b20279c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/PodMonitor-blocky-valkey.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: PodMonitor
+metadata:
+  name: blocky-valkey
+  labels:
+    helm.sh/chart: valkey-0.9.3
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+    app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
+    app.kubernetes.io/version: "9.0.3"
+    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
+    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: valkey
+    app.kubernetes.io/component: podmonitor
+spec:
+  podMetricsEndpoints:
+    - port: metrics
+      interval: 30s
+  namespaceSelector:
+    matchNames:
+      - blocky
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+      app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
diff --git a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/PrometheusRule-blocky-valkey.yaml b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/PrometheusRule-blocky-valkey.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..688d8c38b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/PrometheusRule-blocky-valkey.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: PrometheusRule
+metadata:
+  name: blocky-valkey
+  labels:
+    helm.sh/chart: valkey-0.9.3
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+    app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
+    app.kubernetes.io/version: "9.0.3"
+    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
+    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: valkey
+spec:
+  groups:
+    - name: blocky-valkey
+      rules:
+        - alert: ValkeyDown
+          annotations:
+            description: Valkey instance {{ $labels.instance }} is down.
+            summary: Valkey instance {{ $labels.instance }} down
+          expr: |
+            redis_up{service="blocky-valkey-metrics"} == 0
+          for: 2m
+          labels:
+            severity: error
+        - alert: ValkeyMemoryHigh
+          annotations:
+            description: |
+              Valkey instance {{ $labels.instance }} is using {{ $value }}% of its available memory.
+            summary: Valkey instance {{ $labels.instance }} is using too much memory
+          expr: |
+            redis_memory_used_bytes{service="blocky-valkey-metrics"} * 100
+            /
+            redis_memory_max_bytes{service="blocky-valkey-metrics"}
+            > 90 <= 100
+          for: 2m
+          labels:
+            severity: error
+        - alert: ValkeyKeyEviction
+          annotations:
+            description: |
+              Valkey instance {{ $labels.instance }} has evicted {{ $value }} keys in the last 5 minutes.
+            summary: Valkey instance {{ $labels.instance }} has evicted keys
+          expr: |
+            increase(redis_evicted_keys_total{service="blocky-valkey-metrics"}[5m]) > 0
+          for: 1s
+          labels:
+            severity: error
diff --git a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/RedisReplication-redis-replication-blocky.yaml b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/RedisReplication-redis-replication-blocky.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 47c233472..000000000
--- a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/RedisReplication-redis-replication-blocky.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: redis.redis.opstreelabs.in/v1beta2
-kind: RedisReplication
-metadata:
-  name: redis-replication-blocky
-  namespace: blocky
-  labels:
-    helm.sh/chart: redis-replication-1.0.4
-    app.kubernetes.io/version: "1.0.4"
-    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: redis-replication-blocky
-    app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
-    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: blocky
-spec:
-  clusterSize: 1
-  podSecurityContext:
-    fsGroup: 1000
-    runAsUser: 1000
-  kubernetesConfig:
-    image: "quay.io/opstree/redis:v8.4.0"
-    imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
-    resources:
-      requests:
-        cpu: 10m
-        memory: 32Mi
-  storage:
-    volumeClaimTemplate:
-      spec:
-        accessModes:
-          - ReadWriteOnce
-        resources:
-          requests:
-            storage: 1Gi
-        storageClassName: ceph-block
-  redisExporter:
-    enabled: true
-    image: "quay.io/opstree/redis-exporter:v1.80.2"
diff --git a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/Service-blocky-valkey-headless.yaml b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/Service-blocky-valkey-headless.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cb80c52b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/Service-blocky-valkey-headless.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: blocky-valkey-headless
+  labels:
+    helm.sh/chart: valkey-0.9.3
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+    app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
+    app.kubernetes.io/version: "9.0.3"
+    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
+    app.kubernetes.io/component: headless
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  clusterIP: None
+  publishNotReadyAddresses: true
+  ports:
+    - name: tcp
+      port: 6379
+      targetPort: tcp
+      protocol: TCP
+  selector:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+    app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
diff --git a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/Service-blocky-valkey-metrics.yaml b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/Service-blocky-valkey-metrics.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7f4a7bd9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/Service-blocky-valkey-metrics.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: blocky-valkey-metrics
+  labels:
+    helm.sh/chart: valkey-0.9.3
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+    app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
+    app.kubernetes.io/version: "9.0.3"
+    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
+    app.kubernetes.io/component: metrics
+    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: valkey
+  annotations:
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  ports:
+    - name: metrics
+      port: 9121
+      protocol: TCP
+      targetPort: metrics
+  selector:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+    app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
diff --git a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/Service-blocky-valkey-read.yaml b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/Service-blocky-valkey-read.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9f76c0c7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/Service-blocky-valkey-read.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: blocky-valkey-read
+  labels:
+    helm.sh/chart: valkey-0.9.3
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+    app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
+    app.kubernetes.io/version: "9.0.3"
+    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
+    app.kubernetes.io/component: read
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  ports:
+    - name: tcp
+      port: 6379
+      targetPort: tcp
+      protocol: TCP
+  selector:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+    app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
diff --git a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/Service-blocky-valkey.yaml b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/Service-blocky-valkey.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..981739fc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/Service-blocky-valkey.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: blocky-valkey
+  labels:
+    helm.sh/chart: valkey-0.9.3
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+    app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
+    app.kubernetes.io/version: "9.0.3"
+    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
+    app.kubernetes.io/component: primary
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  ports:
+    - port: 6379
+      targetPort: tcp
+      protocol: TCP
+      name: tcp
+  selector:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+    app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
+    statefulset.kubernetes.io/pod-name: blocky-valkey-0
diff --git a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/ServiceAccount-blocky-valkey.yaml b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/ServiceAccount-blocky-valkey.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ff779194d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/ServiceAccount-blocky-valkey.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ServiceAccount
+metadata:
+  name: blocky-valkey
+  labels:
+    helm.sh/chart: valkey-0.9.3
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+    app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
+    app.kubernetes.io/version: "9.0.3"
+    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
+automountServiceAccountToken: false
diff --git a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/ServiceMonitor-blocky-valkey.yaml b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/ServiceMonitor-blocky-valkey.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..63d8682df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/ServiceMonitor-blocky-valkey.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  name: blocky-valkey
+  labels:
+    helm.sh/chart: valkey-0.9.3
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+    app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
+    app.kubernetes.io/version: "9.0.3"
+    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
+    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: valkey
+    app.kubernetes.io/component: service-monitor
+spec:
+  endpoints:
+    - port: metrics
+      interval: 30s
+  namespaceSelector:
+    matchNames:
+      - blocky
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+      app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
+      app.kubernetes.io/component: metrics
diff --git a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/ServiceMonitor-redis-replication-blocky.yaml b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/ServiceMonitor-redis-replication-blocky.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d450f9bf..000000000
--- a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/ServiceMonitor-redis-replication-blocky.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
-kind: ServiceMonitor
-metadata:
-  name: redis-replication-blocky
-  namespace: blocky
-  labels:
-    helm.sh/chart: redis-replication-1.0.4
-    app.kubernetes.io/version: "1.0.4"
-    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: redis-replication-blocky
-    app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
-    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: blocky
-spec:
-  selector:
-    matchLabels:
-      app: redis-replication-blocky
-      redis_setup_type: replication
-      role: replication
-  endpoints:
-    - port: redis-exporter
-      interval: 30s
-      scrapeTimeout: 10s
diff --git a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/StatefulSet-blocky-valkey.yaml b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/StatefulSet-blocky-valkey.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..89c18df2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/blocky/StatefulSet-blocky-valkey.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: StatefulSet
+metadata:
+  name: blocky-valkey
+  labels:
+    helm.sh/chart: valkey-0.9.3
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+    app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
+    app.kubernetes.io/version: "9.0.3"
+    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
+spec:
+  serviceName: blocky-valkey-headless
+  replicas: 3
+  podManagementPolicy: OrderedReady
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+      app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
+  volumeClaimTemplates:
+    - metadata:
+        name: valkey-data
+      spec:
+        accessModes:
+          - ReadWriteOnce
+        storageClassName: "ceph-block"
+        resources:
+          requests:
+            storage: "1Gi"
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app.kubernetes.io/name: valkey
+        app.kubernetes.io/instance: blocky
+      annotations:
+        checksum/initconfig: "b997c0967aeeee370412add1d41691a1"
+    spec:
+      automountServiceAccountToken: false
+      serviceAccountName: blocky-valkey
+      securityContext:
+        fsGroup: 1000
+        runAsGroup: 1000
+        runAsUser: 1000
+      initContainers:
+        - name: blocky-valkey-init
+          image: docker.io/valkey/valkey:9.0.3
+          imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
+          securityContext:
+            capabilities:
+              drop:
+                - ALL
+            readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
+            runAsNonRoot: true
+            runAsUser: 1000
+          command: ["/scripts/init.sh"]
+          env:
+            - name: POD_INDEX
+              valueFrom:
+                fieldRef:
+                  fieldPath: metadata.labels['apps.kubernetes.io/pod-index']
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: valkey-data
+              mountPath: /data
+            - name: scripts
+              mountPath: /scripts
+      containers:
+        - name: blocky-valkey
+          image: docker.io/valkey/valkey:9.0.3
+          imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
+          command: ["valkey-server"]
+          args: ["/data/conf/valkey.conf"]
+          securityContext:
+            capabilities:
+              drop:
+                - ALL
+            readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
+            runAsNonRoot: true
+            runAsUser: 1000
+          env:
+            - name: POD_INDEX
+              valueFrom:
+                fieldRef:
+                  fieldPath: metadata.labels['apps.kubernetes.io/pod-index']
+            - name: VALKEY_LOGLEVEL
+              value: "notice"
+          ports:
+            - name: tcp
+              containerPort: 6379
+              protocol: TCP
+          startupProbe:
+            exec:
+              command: ["sh", "-c", "valkey-cli ping"]
+          livenessProbe:
+            exec:
+              command: ["sh", "-c", "valkey-cli ping"]
+          resources:
+            requests:
+              cpu: 10m
+              memory: 128Mi
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: valkey-data
+              mountPath: /data
+        - name: metrics
+          image: ghcr.io/oliver006/redis_exporter:v1.81.0
+          imagePullPolicy: "IfNotPresent"
+          ports:
+            - name: metrics
+              containerPort: 9121
+          startupProbe:
+            tcpSocket:
+              port: metrics
+          livenessProbe:
+            tcpSocket:
+              port: metrics
+          readinessProbe:
+            httpGet:
+              path: /
+              port: metrics
+          resources:
+            requests:
+              cpu: 10m
+              memory: 64M
+          env:
+            - name: REDIS_ALIAS
+              value: blocky-valkey
+      volumes:
+        - name: scripts
+          configMap:
+            name: blocky-valkey-init-scripts
+            defaultMode: 0555