Redis on Docker

Redis on Docker

What is covered

- running redis official image on docker

- running redis-cli tool using docker image

What is not covered

- docker

- redis

Note: This is only to be used on developer machine.

Running redis official docker image

This step is actually very simple.

First get redis image from docker hub

    docker pull redis

Now run it

    docker run -p 6379:6379 --name redis redis

We ran 'redis' image. And named created container as 'redis'. And exposed port 6379 of container as 6379 on local machine.

Run again using
    docker start redis
Stop using
    docker stop redis

Using redis-cli

One way is to install redis-cli and use it.

But we do not need to. We have all we need within docker image. We execute a bash in same 'redis' container that is running

    docker exec -it redis bash

Now in image, we have access to redis-cli. Just fire command below

    redis-cli

Location for redis in docker image is: /usr/local/bin/redis-cli

Below are a few commands that can be used to test redis

Find keys: keys *

Add a key-value: set my-key "This is my value"

Get value for a key: get my-key