Learn how to - How to Install Redis on Fedora 37/36/35/34/33/32

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Learn how to – How to Install Redis on Fedora 37/36/35/34/33/32.

Welcome to our tutorial on how to Install Redis on Fedora 37/36/35/34/33/32. Redis is an open-source in-memory data store with optional persistent writes to disk. You can use Redis as a message broker, database or for caching. It supports strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and other data structures.

For Ubuntu:

How to Install Redis on Ubuntu / Debian

Install Redis on Fedora 37/36/35/34/33/32

Follow the steps below to install Redis on Fedora. You can choose to do a clustered setup or a single instance installation. This installation is for a single instance but I’ll cover Redis cluster setup in my next article.

Step 1: Update Fedora system

Start the installation by ensuring your system is up to date.

sudo dnf -y update

Step 2: Install Redis on Fedora

Once your system is updated, install Redis on Fedora by running the command:

sudo dnf -y install redis

Step 3: Start Redis Service

Once the package is installed, start and enable Redis service to start on boot

sudo systemctl enable --now redis

Step 4: Configure Redis Server on Fedora

We will consider few Redis standard configurations

Enable Listen on all interfaces

By default, Redis service listens on 127.0.0.1. Allow the service to listen on all network interfaces if you need remote clients to connect to it.

Open the file /etc/redis.conf with your favorite text editor

sudo vim /etc/redis.conf

Then change line 66 bind 127.0.0.1 to below:

bind 0.0.0.0

Configure Redis Authentication

Configure Redis Authentication for clients to require AUTH <PASSWORD> before processing any other commands.

requirepass  <AuthPassword>

Example:

requirepass oobaiY8

Set Persistent Store for Recovery

Set persistence mode by changing the appendonlyvalue to yes

appendonly yes
appendfilename "appendonly.aof"

Restart redis service after making the changes

sudo systemctl restart redis

If you have an active firewalld service, allow port 6379

sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=6379/tcp --permanenent
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Check redis service status:

$ sudo systemctl status redis
● redis.service - Redis persistent key-value database
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/redis.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/redis.service.d
             └─limit.conf
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2023-01-25 09:13:10 UTC; 8s ago
   Main PID: 9234 (redis-server)
     Status: "Ready to accept connections"
      Tasks: 5 (limit: 4543)
     Memory: 2.6M
        CPU: 30ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/redis.service
             └─9234 "/usr/bin/redis-server 127.0.0.1:6379"

Jan 25 09:13:10 fedora.mylab.io systemd[1]: Starting redis.service - Redis persistent key-value database...
Jan 25 09:13:10 fedora.mylab.io systemd[1]: Started redis.service - Redis persistent key-value database.

Also verify the listen address:

$ sudo ss -tunelp | grep 6379
tcp LISTEN 0 128 *:6379  *:*  users:(("redis-server",pid=28163,fd=4)) uid:995 ino:305

Step 5: Connect to Redis

Confirm that you can connect to redis locally:

$ redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379>

Test authenticate:

127.0.0.1:6379> AUTH <AuthPassword>
OK

You should receive OK in the output. If you input a wrong password, Authentication should fail:

127.0.0.1:6379> AUTH WrongPassword 
(error) ERR invalid password

Check redis information.

127.0.0.1:6379>  INFO

This will output a long list of data. You can limit the output by passing Section as an argument. E.g.

127.0.0.1:6379> INFO Server
# Server
redis_version:5.0.2
redis_git_sha1:00000000
redis_git_dirty:0
redis_build_id:9ce1182a4801eefb
redis_mode:standalone
os:Linux 4.18.16-300.fc29.x86_64 x86_64
arch_bits:64
multiplexing_api:epoll
atomicvar_api:atomic-builtin
gcc_version:8.2.1
process_id:11000
run_id:48846b4a1b59f792183d4ca5637937b5eced7e36
tcp_port:6379
uptime_in_seconds:563
uptime_in_days:0
hz:10
configured_hz:10
lru_clock:431578
executable:/usr/bin/redis-server
config_file:/etc/redis.conf
127.0.0.1:6379>

Step 6: Perform Redis Benchmarking

Run the benchmark with 20 parallel connections, for a total of 100k requests, against local redis to test its performance.

$ redis-benchmark -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6379 -n 100000 -c 20
................................................
====== LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) ======
  10000 requests completed in 0.15 seconds
  15 parallel clients
  3 bytes payload
  keep alive: 1

100.00% <= 0 milliseconds
67114.09 requests per second

====== MSET (10 keys) ======
  10000 requests completed in 0.15 seconds
  15 parallel clients
  3 bytes payload
  keep alive: 1

100.00% <= 0 milliseconds
66666.66 requests per second

For more options and examples, use:

$ redis-benchmark --help

This marks the end of our guide on how to install redis on Fedora. Other Fedora articles are:

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