Scaling Redis With Containers Using Redis Enterprise

Docker makes development much simpler and takes the nasty surprises out of deploying to production. Docker is lightweight, fast, portable and composable. Redis makes it shine. 

Redis Enterprise platform supports mission critical Redis applications that require advanced availability, online and simpler scaling, improved security controls and great multi-tenancy capabilities. Redis Enterprise is completely compatible with Redis apps: Simply change your connection string and you are ready to go.

Redis is in-memory and RAM can get expensive for larger datasets. Redis Enterprise also extends Redis data placement to allow it to store data both in RAM and on Flash with optimized data placement logic and can keep latencies at near-RAM levels.

If you have an existing Redis app, it is easy to get started with Redis Enterprise. You can follow the instructions on the Docker hub or below. 

Step 1: Run the Redis Enterprise Pack Container

docker run -d –cap-add sys_resource –name rp -p 8443:8443 -p 12000:12000 redislabs/redis

Step 2: Set Up Redis Enterprise Pack Cluster

Simply visit https://localhost:8443 on the host machine and follow the setup instructions.

Step 3: Create a Redis Database

Create a Redis database on port 12000 – click on Advanced Options to set the database port. 

Step 4: Connect to Your Database Using redis-cli

docker  exec -it rp bash
# sudo /opt/redislabs/bin/redis-cli -p 12000
# 127.0.0.1:16653> set key1 123
# OK
# 127.0.0.1:16653> get key1
# “123”

You now have Redis Enterprise Pack running on your env. If you'd like to run a scale-minimized cluster with Redis Enterprise to see its availability and scalability features, you can simply add more nodes by running more container instances and joining them to the cluster. 

Want to explore more? You can find more detailed information here. 

Happy hacking!