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title: Manage Valkey Clusters
description: Schedule updates, tag, relocate, fork, reconfigure, and destroy clusters.
product: Databases
url: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/valkey/how-to/manage-cluster/
last_updated: "2026-07-31"
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# Manage Valkey Clusters

Generated on 1 Aug 2026

Valkey is a high-performance, open-source database that stores key-value data in memory, and is designed for caching, message queues, and primary database use. Fully compatible with Redis, Valkey serves as a drop-in replacement.

[How to Schedule Automatic Software Updates for Valkey Database Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/valkey/how-to/schedule-updates/index.html.md): Customize the maintenance window for automatic software updates to your database cluster.

[How to Tag Valkey Database Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/valkey/how-to/tag/index.html.md): Organize Valkey databases clusters with tags to group and filter databases or create monitoring alert policies for multiple databases at once.

[How to Relocate Database Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/valkey/how-to/relocate/index.html.md): Change a cluster’s regional datacenter.

[How to Configure Custom CNAME Records for Valkey Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/valkey/how-to/configure-custom-cnames/index.html.md): Assign custom domain names to Valkey database clusters using the DigitalOcean API.

[How to Fork a Valkey Database Cluster](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/valkey/how-to/fork-clusters/index.html.md): Fork a Valkey database cluster to create a new cluster from an existing cluster’s latest transaction.

[How to Reconfigure Valkey Database Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/valkey/how-to/reconfigure/index.html.md): Edit your database engine’s configuration and parameters via the CLI or API.

[How to Destroy Valkey Database Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/valkey/how-to/destroy/index.html.md): Destroy a database cluster to permanently and irreversibly destroy the cluster, its contents, and its automated backups.