is this redis in use by your app?

yes

then you would not want to use it for bullmq

sorry didn't include a project as it's more of a generally question about the platform

I see several templates include their own postgres for example, and it feels strange to have multiple containers running postgres versus one "beefier" one or a cluster

same with redis, it'd be preferable to have a single cluster which can be used with several services

but understand that's currently not how the templates are designed

IIRC redis themselves doesn't even recommended using a single Redis database for everything, and instead recommends multiple deploys.

appreciate the quick responses. very helpful, thx u