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Muhamad Haris Setiawan
Muhamad Haris Setiawan

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How to Install Redis (MacOS)

#redis #installation #macos

Hallo since i'm hard to find article, and it's separated from one article to another. I wrote this to make easy installation of redis on MacOS

First of all, we need install homebrew on our mac. this link will guide you to install Homebrew

Installation Redis 

$ brew install redis
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To make our redis run on background you'r just need copy and execute this script

$ brew services start redis
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To make sure your redis good to go copy and execute this script

$ redis-cli ping
PONG
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Well it's Pong return your ready to rock.
To make secure password on redis you can edit configuration and type some secret just like this.

$ nano /usr/local/etc/redis.conf
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find
requirepass : foo
and change to
requirepass :

And restart your redis service

$ brew services restart redis
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Now your good to go ☕️

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Euan •

No way… this is exactly what docker rescues us from doing! Why install it on your Mac when you can spin up an image at will?