I was under the assumption OP's redis instance was running on a separate machine and they wanted to be and to achieve a setup that "felt like" it was distribute

I was under the assumption OP's redis instance was running on a separate machine and they wanted to be and to achieve a setup that "felt like" it was distributed (container isolation, etc) but without the network hops adding in latency. My question was more around whether you could use K8's to effectively simulate that, but on a single beefy machine to remove the network hops. It was also a curiosity "is this possible" type of question, not an "I'm saying this is a good idea" type of question.