Vultr Customer Portal

1. Navigate to Products and select Databases.
2. Click the target database instance.
3. Navigate to Settings then Eviction Policies.
4. Choose your preferred eviction policy and click Save.

Vultr API

1. List all the database instances by sending a GET request to the List Managed Databases endpoint and note the database ID. For example, 43b4c774-5dff-4ac0-a01f-78a23c2205b5.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/databases" \
       -X GET \
       -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"
   

2. Send a PUT request to the Update Managed Database endpoint specifying the database ID to change the eviction policy.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/databases/database_id" \
       -X PUT \
       -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
       -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
       --data '{
           "eviction_policy" : "volatile-lru"
       }'
   

   Visit the Update Managed Database endpoint to view additional attributes to add to your request.

Vultr CLI

1. Install and configure the Vultr CLI.
2. List all database instances and note the database ID. For instance, d6ac2a3c-92ea-43ef-8185-71a23e58ad8c.
   console

   $ vultr-cli database list --summarize
   

3. Run the following command to change the eviction policy and specify the database ID.
   console

   $ vultr-cli database update database_id \
   --eviction-policy "volatile-lru"
   

   Run vultr-cli database update --help to view all options.

Terraform

1. Open your Terraform configuration for the existing Managed Database for Valkey resource.
2. Add or update the eviction_policy argument to set the data eviction policy.
   terraform

   resource "vultr_database" "valkey" {
       # ...existing fields (database_engine, region, plan, label, etc.)
   
       eviction_policy = "volatile-lru"
   }
   

3. Apply and observe the following output:

   Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 1 changed, 0 destroyed.