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Redis 4.x Cookbook

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Redis 4.x Cookbook

Overview of this book

Redis is considered the world's most popular key-value store database. Its versatility and the wide variety of use cases it enables have made it a popular choice of database for many enterprises. Based on the latest version of Redis, this book provides both step-by-step recipes and relevant the background information required to utilize its features to the fullest. It covers everything from a basic understanding of Redis data types to advanced aspects of Redis high availability, clustering, administration, and troubleshooting. This book will be your great companion to master all aspects of Redis. The book starts off by installing and configuring Redis for you to get started with ease. Moving on, all the data types and features of Redis are introduced in detail. Next, you will learn how to develop applications with Redis in Java, Python, and the Spring Boot web framework. You will also learn replication tasks, which will help you to troubleshoot replication issues. Furthermore, you will learn the steps that need to be undertaken to ensure high availability on your cluster and during production deployment. Toward the end of the book, you will learn the topmost tasks that will help you to troubleshoot your ecosystem efficiently, along with extending Redis by using different modules.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
13
Windows Environment Setup
Index

Managing Redis Server configurations


We have already set or updated Redis Server configurations multiple times in previous recipes. In this recipe, we will revisit the ways to manage Redis Server configurations and introduce two commands related to Redis configuration.

Getting ready…

You need to finish the installation of Redis Server as we described in the Downloading and installing Redis recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Redis.

How to do it...

The steps for managing Redis Server configurations are as follows:

  1. To start a Redis Server with configurations loaded from a config file, append the config file path after redis-server:
$ bin/redis-server conf/redis.conf
  1. To include another config file, use the include directive in the Redis config file. For example, we can put common configurations into /redis/conf/redis-common.conf and include it in redis.conf:
include /redis/conf/redis-common.conf
  1. To override configuration parameters when starting Redis Server, append the configuration directives...