Tugboat-MemoryDB-Redis

All things to do with MemoryDB and Redis!

Overview

Installing and using Redis locally in a Docker container seemed the easiest thing to do.

This project uses the Redis Stack to fully utilize the Redis Insights UI that comes pre-installed along with several other useful features of Redis.

The /local-data directory acts as a mounted volume for the redis server running in a container. It essentially acts as a dummy data folder for testing and experimentation.

The /ex-binary-data-value directory is the golang source code (which uses the golang Redis SDK) for the executuable: set-file-data. It is a simple program that can show how you can use the contents of a file as a value to a redis key. You can store straight binary or some encoded representation of it like base64.

Getting Started

To run the Redis Stack use the run-redis.sh script. If you have no already done so, run chmod +x run-redis.sh to give executable permissions to the script. You must also provide a container name for the script. Here is an example:

./run-redis.sh redis_server

To enter into a Redis CLI session use the ./redis-cli script and provide the name of the container that you provided in the previous step. Here is an example:

./redis-cli.sh redis_server

Basic Commands

Use SET and GET to work with basic string types. This includes binary data.

• SET name Kolton
• SET page_header "<h1> Ahoy Maties! </h1>"
• If you want to see how file data can be set as a value then run ./set-file-data. It will upload the base64 representation of the badge PNG and set it as a value for a key named: "Image"

Use HSET and HGET to work with hashes.