Install¶

Install redis python client¶

pip install redis
pip install redis[hiredis] #faster performance
mamba install redis-py hiredis

Start redis via a docker file¶

# running a redis container for local development
docker run --rm -p 6379:6379 redis:7.0-alpine

Install redis server on Linux¶

https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/install/archive/install-redis/install-redis-on-linux/

install latest stable version:

curl -fsSL https://packages.redis.io/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packages.redis.io/deb $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/redis.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install redis

start and connect

sudo service redis-server start
redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379> ping

Linux with build¶

install build tools

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install make gcc python-dev

download Redis source code from: http://download.redis.io/releases/

wget -q http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-7.0.11.tar.gz
tar -xzf redis-7.0.11.tar.gz
cd 7.0.11

compile and install

make                       #compile redis
sudo make install          #install redis
redis-server redis.conf    #start redis server

Windows¶

Redis is not officially supported on Windows.

Had to install it on WSL2. See Linux section.

After start the redis-server from WSL2, we can use the server from windows (Need to install redis-py in windows).