(FFM-5400) Improve redis startup process #111
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Issue
When starting the proxy connected to redis we don't have a strict healthcheck on startup. This means we might fail to connect properly and then log errors later when we can't write to the cache instead of failing early.
This isn't super helpful because it's not overly clear that we failed to connect to redis in the first place, it looks more to a user like the issue is in our caching code itself.
Solution
Have a strict redis healthcheck on startup.
Specify in docs that we don't support clustered redis instances.
Other info
These improvements have come from the issue raised here - #110 where it wasn't immediately obvious what the underlying issue was on startup and led to cache errors later.