General Information

Redis is “an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker.”

Official Site: https://redis.io/

Checklist

• Enterprise Linux 7

Install/enable the EPEL repo.

Install redis

yum install redis

Start and Enable

systemctl enable redis
systemctl start redis

Verify service is available locally

[root@server01 ~]# redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379> exit

• By default, redis will listen on localhost (127.0.0.1) only

Different Redis server options to configure that are not defaults.

The config file is located at: /etc/redis.conf

The default bind/listen interface is localhost (127.0.0.1).

If you would like clients to be able to connect over the network, you will need to change this.

• Caution: There is no security/encryption by default, but a number of protection measures to take if changing the bind interface. See the security section.

Change the bind interface

bind 192.168.1.100