Redis with docker
Redis, RE-dis is an open-source in-memory data structure project implementing a distributed, in-memory key-value database with optional durability
You can refer to Github repository here
This article is all about how I learned to use redis without installing it locally.
The first thing that came to my mind was to use Docker. So lets begin
Get the official redis docker image
Run the following command
docker pull redis
Note: you can refer to official redis docker repository here
Check the downloaded redis image
Run the following command to see all the locally available docker images.
docker images
you will see something like this as result of above command
Lets create a redis.conf file
You can download a sample redis.conf file from here
Run the docker image
Before doing this lets create a local folder where the redis.conf is available and mount it in the docker image while
running it. e.g /home/
Run the below command to run the redis docker image as demon.
docker run -d -v /home/saurabh/redis/redis.conf:/usr/local/etc/redis/redis.conf -p 6379:6379 --name myredis redis
You can now inspect the currently running docker image using following command
docker exec -it myredis bash
//the above command will take you inside the container
root@e42647bf2a4e:/data#
To test weather the redis is working or not lets connect to it through redis-cli run the following command inside the container
root@e42647bf2a4e:/data# redis-cli -h localhost -p 6379 -a <password-from-redis.conf-file>
localhost:6379> // you are in now test the redis
localhost:6379> ping
PONG
Your redis container is working fine. Now you can connect to this redis instance(PORT 6379) from any application on your machine.