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Mastering Redis

By : Vidyasagar N V, Nelson
Book Image

Mastering Redis

By: Vidyasagar N V, Nelson

Overview of this book

Redis is the most popular, open-source, key value data structure server that provides a wide range of capabilities on which multiple platforms can be be built. Its fast and flexible data structures give your existing applications an edge in the development environment. This book is a practical guide which aims to help you deep dive into the world of Redis data structure to exploit its excellent features. We start our journey by understanding the need of Redis in brief, followed by an explanation of Advanced key management. Next, you will learn about design patterns, best practices for using Redis in DevOps environment and Docker containerization paradigm in detail. After this, you will understand the concept of scaling with Redis cluster and Redis Sentinel , followed by a through explanation of incorporating Redis with NoSQL technologies such as Elasticsearch and MongoDB. At the end of this section, you will be able to develop competent applications using these technologies. You will then explore the message queuing and task management features of Redis and will be able to implement them in your applications. Finally, you will learn how Redis can be used to build real-time data analytic dashboards, for different disparate data streams.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Hosting and publishing Docker images


After creating custom Docker images through either a committing a snapshot of a running Docker container or by writing a Dockerfile and building a new image, Docker provides a way number of ways to allow you to share your image. Docker, the company, sponsors a service for hosting your image at https://hub.docker.com/ where you can upload your image after creating an account by using the docker push {repository}/{image-name}:{tag} command that then is available for use. With the free account level on Docker Hub, you have one free private repository and an unlimited number of public images. A paid membership on Docker Hub provides you multiple private repositories on Docker Hub depending on your level of membership.

If you do not wish to use Docker Hub but you would like to provide your image for use by others in your organization, a part of the Docker Corporations affiliated project Docker Toolkit available at https://github.com/docker/distribution allows...