I use Redis for many different purposes. Sometimes, I need a large amount of RAM so Redis can act as a key store for megabytes or gigabytes of key values. Sometime I just need distributed locking and small-scale caching. Either way, setting up a Redis instance is a task I find myself performing from time to time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regardless of the size of the compute instance, I tend to perform the same steps: Create an Instance, select the machine type, and then under Advanced options > Automation I use a script like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The basic idea is this clears out man-db and any unused packages, installs Redis, and then modifies \/etc\/redis.conf for my purposes. And, yes, I tend to remove man-db on my GCP instances, it really speeds up any package updating later on, especially on the smaller machine types.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I use Redis for many different purposes. Sometimes, I need a large amount of RAM so Redis can act as a key store for megabytes or gigabytes of key values. Sometime I just need distributed locking and small-scale caching. Either way, setting up a Redis instance is a task I find myself performing from time … <\/p>\nsudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove man-db -y
sudo apt-get autoremove -y
sudo apt-get install -y redis-server
sudo sed -r -i 's\/^bind\\s+(.+?)$\/# bind \\1\/' \/etc\/redis\/redis.conf
sudo sed -r -i 's\/^protected-mode yes$\/protected-mode no\/' \/etc\/redis\/redis.conf<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n