How to Setup Redis Server in The Cloud on Azure/AWS/GCP
To setup and install Redis®* server on any of the cloud platforms, the easiest way is to use the image available in the cloud marketplaces below. Redis® is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a redis database, redis cache, and message broker.
Run Redis® Server in the Cloud
Setup Redis Server on Azure
Setup Redis Server on AWS
Setup Redis Server on GCP
Table of Contents
Redis Server features
- Versatile data structures
- Transactions
- Pub/Sub
- Lua scripting
- Geospatial
- Keys with a limited time-to-live
- LRU eviction of keys
- Cluster / Automatic failover
- Supported languages include Java, Python, PHP, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Node.js, Ruby, R, Go and many others.
Getting Started with Redis Server
Once your Redis® server has been deployed, the following links explain how to connect to a Linux VM:
- How to connect to a Linux VM on Azure
- How to connect to a Linux VM on AWS
- How to connect to a Linux VM on GCP
Once connected and logged in, you’re ready to start configuring Redis.
Using Redis
Redis-server is configured to start automatically.
Check if Redis is working
External programs talk to Redis using a TCP socket and a Redis specific protocol. This protocol is implemented in the Redis client libraries for the different programming languages. However to make hacking with Redis simpler Redis provides a command line utility that can be used to send commands to Redis. This program is called redis-cli.
The first thing to do in order to check if Redis is working properly is sending a PING command using redis-cli and we should get a PONG reply as below:
redis-cli ping
Running redis-cli followed by a command name and its arguments will send this command to the Redis instance running on localhost at port 6379. You can change the host and port used by redis-cli, just try the –help option to check the usage information.
Another interesting way to run redis-cli is without arguments: the program will start in interactive mode, you can type different commands and see their replies.
redis-cli
Redis Default Configuration
Redis has been setup with the default configuration:
Listening port: 6379
Redis Config file : /etc/redis/redis.conf
Logfile: The path to where you would like your logs stored can be set within the redis.conf under logfile ” “ line
Redis Documentation
Documentation on using Redis can be found on : https://redis.io/documentation
Redis Firewall Ports
By default Redis is set to listen on port 6379
For a full list on the required firewall ports, review –
Clustering Ports:
https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/networking/port-configurations/
To setup AWS firewall rules refer to – AWS Security Groups
To setup Azure firewall rules refer to – Azure Network Security Groups
To setup Google GCP firewall rules refer to – Creating GCP Firewalls
