Install latest Redis cache

Redis is an open source advanced key-value cache. It is high performance and often compared to memcached.

This post we look into how to install latest Redis cache onto (say) Fedora 21. It is quite simple, and lets start:

Goto http://redis.io/download, and download latest version using wget.

wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-2.8.19.tar.gz

untar/unzip the package

tar -xzvf redis-2.8.19.tar.gz

compile the bundle

cd redis-2.8.19
make

It is good to do a "make test" to test the functionality on your system. For this test you need tcl.

If you don't have tcl, install it by:

yum install tcl

Run make test:

make test

If functionality test passed it will show:

\o/ All tests passed without errors!

Lets install the excutables into /usr/local/bin/.

make install

For Fedora systemctl system, lets create a redis service script.

vi /usr/lib/systemd/system/redis.service

[Unit]
Description=Redis persistent key-value database
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/redis-server /etc/redis.conf --daemonize no
ExecStop=/usr/local/bin/redis-shutdown
User=redis
Group=redis

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Move sample redis.conf to /etc.

cp /root/download/redis-2.8.19/redis.conf /etc/redis.conf

Create redis-shutdown script.

vi /usr/local/bin/redis-shutdown

#!/bin/bash
#
# Wrapper to close properly redis and sentinel
test x"$REDIS_DEBUG" != x && set -x

REDIS_CLI=/usr/local/bin/redis-cli

# Retrieve service name
SERVICE_NAME="$1"
if [ -z "$SERVICE_NAME" ]; then
   SERVICE_NAME=redis
fi

# Get the proper config file based on service name
CONFIG_FILE="/etc/$SERVICE_NAME.conf"

# Use awk to retrieve port from config file
PORT=`awk '/^[[:blank:]]*port/ { print $2 }' $CONFIG_FILE`

# Just in case, use default port
if [ "$SERVICE_NAME" = redis ]; then
    PORT=${PORT:-6379}
else
    PORT=${PORT:-26739}
fi

# shutdown the service properly
$REDIS_CLI -p $PORT SHUTDOWN NOSAVE

Enable and start redis service.

systemctl enable redis.service
systemctl start redis.service

Lets try the redis-cli. Set a key and get a key:

[root@fc21 temp]# redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379> get key1
(nil)
127.0.0.1:6379> set key1 value1
OK
127.0.0.1:6379> get key1
"value1"