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Redis is open source database, precisely, its a in-memory data structure store that can
be used as a database, cache & message broker. It does not possess the limits offered
by the relational database & can be used to store a vast amount of data, with support
for a number of data structures like strings, hashes, lists, sets, Sorted sets, bitmaps,
hyperlogs etc.

Redis also provides a number of features like built-in replication (master-slave

replication), Lua scripting, LRU eviction, transactions and different levels of on-disk
persistence & also provides high availability.

Typical use cases are session caching, full page cache, message queue applications,
leaderboards and counting among others.

Pre-requisites

Before we can proceed with the installation of redis on our Centos/RHEL servers, we
need to make sure that following packages must be installed on our systems,

1- CentOS/RHEL 7
We need to install the following packages,
$ yum install wget gcc make

2- CentOS/RHEL6
Install the following packages ,
$ yum install tcl wget gcc make

Step 1- Downloading redis

At the time of writing this tutorial, redis 3.2.9 is the latest version. So to download the
redis 3.2.9, open your terminal & execute the following command,
$ wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-3.2.9.tar.gz
Next, we will extract the downloaded tar package,
$ tar -xvf redis-3.2.9.tar.gz
Step 2- Compiling & installing redis

Now that we have a extracted, we will compile & install redis. Firstly, open the extracted
folder,
$ cd redis-3.2.9

& then goto folder deps,

$ cd deps

Now, we will compile the packages by executing following commands,

$ make hiredis lua jemalloc linenoise
$ make geohash-int

Next, we will move back to the main directory i.e. redis-3.2.9

$ cd ../

& will run make & make install commands

$ make
$ make installation
Once these commands have been executed, we will move onto to installing init script.

Step 3- Installing init scripting

Init script will setup a redis service with port number, config file, log file & a data
directory. To run run init script,
$ cd utils

& run the install_server.sh script,

$ ./install_server.sh
We will now be asked with some information regarding redis server, as shown below,

Welcome to the redis service installer

This script will help you easily set up a running redis server
Please select the redis port for this instance: [6379]
Selecting default: 6379
Please select the redis config file name [/etc/redis/6379.conf]
Selected default /etc/redis/6379.conf
Please select the redis log file name [/var/log/redis_6379.log]
Selected default /var/log/redis_6379.log
Please select the data directory for this instance [/var/lib/redis/6379]
Selected default /var/lib/redis/6379
Please select the redis executable path [/usr/local/bin/redis-server]
Selected config:
Port : 6379
Config file : /etc/redis/6379.conf
Log file : /var/log/redis_6379.log
Data dir : /var/lib/redis/6379
Executable : /usr/local/bin/redis-server
Cli Executable : /usr/local/bin/redis-cli
Is this ok? Then press ENTER to go on or Ctrl-C to abort.
Copied /tmp/6379.conf => /etc/init.d/redis_6379
Installing service
Successfully added to chkconfig!
Successfully added to runlevels 345!
Starting Redis server
Installation successful!

For this installation we have used all the default settings, but we can modify any settings
as per our need.

Note:-We can also set up a number of redis instances by running this script again &
changing the port number for the new redis instance.
Step 4- Starting the redis service

To start the redis service, the command is

$ service redis_6379 start, OR ,
$ systemctl start redis_6379

If you are using more than one redis instance or have changed the port number for
redis instance, then you can replace 6379 with the port number you have chosen to
stop/start the redis service.

Step 5- Checking if the redis service is working

To login to redis server & check if redis is working fine, open terminal & run the
command,
$ redis-cli
Once connected, you will get prompt like
127.0.0.1:6379>
We can now issue Ping command & if the redis service is up, we will get PONG as
response,
127.0.0.1:6379> ping
PONG

Step 6 (OPTIONAL) Accessing redis from remote

system

By default, redis is accessible from localhost but if you wish to access redis server from a
remote location then we need to make some changes in the configuration file. Open the
configuration file for the instance, i.e. /etc/6379.conf,
$ vi /etc/redis/6379.conf
& look for bind 127.0.0.1. We can either replace 127.0.0.1 with 0.0.0.0 or add IP address
of our server to it. It should look like
bind 0.0.0.0
or
bind 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.100
Now exit the file after saving the changes & restart the service for changes to take effect.
$ service redis_6379 restart

Remember if using multiple or different port numbers, changes are to made to all the
configuration files for respective port numbers.
Now to check if we can login to redis from a remote system, login to remote system first
& enter the following command from terminal,
$ redis-cli -h 192.168.1.100 -p 6379

where, 192.168.1.100 is the IP address of the redis server with 6379 as the redis instance
port number.

This completes our tutorial on redis installation.

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