‘Redis’ is an Open source key-value data store, shared by multiple processes, multiple applications, or multiple Servers. Key values are more complex types like Hashes, Lists, Sets or Sorted Sets.
Let’s have a quick look on the installation steps of “Redis”
Here we go…
Step – 1
First of all we need to switch to superuser & install dependencies:
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su
yum install make gcc wget tcl
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Step-2
Download Redis Packages & Unzip. This guide is based on installing Redis 2.8.3:
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wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-2.8.3.tar.gz
tar xzvf redis-2.8.3.tar.gz
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Step-3
Compiling and Installing Redis from the source:
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cd redis-2.8.3
make
make install
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Step- 4
Starting Redis server by executing the following command without any argument:
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redis-server
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Step-5
Check if Redis is working. To check, send a PING command using redis-cli. This will return ‘PONG’ if everything is fine.
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redis-cli ping
PONG
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Step-6
Add Redis-server to init script. Create a directory to store your Redis config files & data:
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mkdir -p /etc/redis
mkdir -p /var/redis
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Also we need to create a directory inside “/var/redis” that works as data & a working directory for this Redis instance.
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mkdir /var/redis/redis
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Step-7
Copy the template configuration file you’ll find in the root directory of Redis distribution into /etc/redis/
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cp redis.conf /etc/redis/redis.conf
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Edit the configuration file, make sure to perform the following changes:
- Set daemonize to yes (by default it’s set to ‘No’).
- Set the pidfile to /var/run/redis.pid
- Set your preferred loglevel
- Set the logfile to /var/log/redis.log
- Set the dir to /var/redis/redis
- Save and exit from the editor
Step-8
Add the Redis init script.
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vi /etc/init.d/redis
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And paste the following codes to it
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#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: 345 20 80
# description: Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker.
# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions
REDISPORT=6379
EXEC=/usr/local/bin/redis-server
CLIEXEC=/usr/local/bin/redis-cli
PIDFILE=/var/run/redis.pid
CONF="/etc/redis/redis.conf"
case "$1" in
start)
if [ -f $PIDFILE ]
then
echo "$PIDFILE exists, process is already running or crashed"
else
echo "Starting Redis server…"
$EXEC $CONF
fi
;;
stop)
if [ ! -f $PIDFILE ]
then
echo "$PIDFILE does not exist, process is not running"
else
PID=$(cat $PIDFILE)
echo "Stopping …"
$CLIEXEC -p $REDISPORT shutdown
while [ -x /proc/${PID} ]
do
echo "Waiting for Redis to shutdown …"
sleep 1
done
echo "Redis stopped"
fi
;;
restart)
stop
start
;;
*)
echo "Please use start or stop as first argument"
;;
esac
exit 0
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Save the file and exit from the editor.
Step-9
Give appropriate permission to the init script
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chmod u+x /etc/init.d/redis
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Step-10
To run the Redis server at startup we need to add it to the chkconfig list.
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chkconfig –add redis
chkconfig –level 345 redis on
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Step-11
Finally we are ready to start the Redis Server.
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/etc/init.d/redis start
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The redis server will start automatically on system boot.
Conclusion:
‘Redis’ also supports datatypes such as Transitions, Publish and Subscribe. ‘Redis’ is considered more powerful than ‘Memcache’. It would be smart to bring ‘Redis’ into practice and put ‘Memcache’ down for a while.
We provide one-stop solution by utilizing Redis server with Rails , PHP applications and deploy in cloud services such as AWS to make sure that the application is fully scalable.
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