brew redis on Mac

Redis is a robust in-memory datastore widely used as cache, pub/sub (message broker) for further reading..

Installing Redis on mac

There are many options to install Redis on mac you can Download the code and compile it or use a docker image. I prefer using Homebrew to install and manage Redis on mac. It is also easy to uninstall Redis using brew.

> brew install redis

Starting Redis server as a foreground process

starts the server as a foreground process using "redis-server" command.
To exit use ctrl+c

 > redis-server

15594:C 25 May 2020 18:08:37.005 # oO0OoO0OoO0Oo Redis is starting oO0OoO0OoO0Oo
15594:C 25 May 2020 18:08:37.005 # Redis version=6.0.3, bits=64, commit=00000000, modified=0, pid=15594, just started
15594:C 25 May 2020 18:08:37.005 # Warning: no config file specified, using the default config. In order to specify a config file use redis-server /path/to/redis.conf
15594:M 25 May 2020 18:08:37.006 * Increased maximum number of open files to 10032 (it was originally set to 8192).
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15594:M 25 May 2020 18:08:37.007 # Server initialized
15594:M 25 May 2020 18:08:37.008 * Ready to accept connections

Starting/Stopping the Redis server as a background service

Starting/Stopping Redis server can be done using brew services. By default, Redis starts on port 6379 as a background service.

List all brew services

> brew services list

Start redis

> brew services start redis

Stop redis

> brew services stop redis

Restart redis

> brew services restart redis

Check if Redis is up

command "redis-cli ping" should respond with a "PONG."

> redis-cli ping
PONG

Configuring Redis

To configure Redis and change the default edit the /usr/local/etc/redis.conf file and restart the Redis server.
Check the configuration section for more to configure users check the ACL (Access Control List)

useful aliases add to ~/.zshrc or ~/.bash_profile

alias redis-start="brew services start redis"
alias redis-stop="brew services stop redis"
alias redis-restart="brew services restart redis"
alias redis-monitor="redis-cli monitor"

Useful redis commands

# connect to a different redis server or port 
> redis-cli -h <address> -p <port>

# List users
> redis-cli ACL LIST

# Continous stat
> redis-cli --stat
------- data ------ --------------------- load -------------------- - child -
keys       mem      clients blocked requests            connections          
1          1.02M    1       0       0 (+0)              1           
1          1.02M    1       0       1 (+0)              1           
1          1.02M    1       0       2 (+1)              1           
1          1.02M    1       0       3 (+1)              1           
1          1.02M    1       0       4 (+1)              1           

# Monitor commandis is a super useful it stdouts all the command received by redis
> redis-cli monitor
OK
1590445706.871636 [0 127.0.0.1:52583] "ping"
1590445716.910679 [0 127.0.0.1:52642] "flushall"
1590445814.170701 [0 127.0.0.1:53107] "incr" "visitor"
1590445893.336228 [0 127.0.0.1:53483] "publish" "channel" "hi"
1590445914.672421 [0 127.0.0.1:53591] "subscribe" "channel1"
1590445925.539757 [0 127.0.0.1:53639] "publish" "channel" "hey"

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Comments

[Ajeet Singh Raina]

Do refer developer.redis.com/create/homebrew/ if you want to learn more about Redis and it's supported platform.