# Valkey

Valkey is a key value database that is used for storing and querying data.
It is a good choice for storing data that is not relational in nature and often used for caching.

The service user used by your workload to access Valkey instances gets rotated on a regular basis.

## Next steps

🎯 [Create Valkey](/persistence/valkey/how-to/create.md)

🎯 [Create Valkey with GitHub Actions](/persistence/valkey/how-to/create-with-github-actions.md)

🎯 [Use Valkey in your workload](/persistence/valkey/how-to/use-in-workload.md)

🎯 [Delete Valkey](/persistence/valkey/how-to/delete.md)

📚 [Valkey reference](/persistence/valkey/reference.md)