Running a Redis Server using Docker

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In this video, we will be showing you how you can easily get Redis up and running by using a Docker container.

Redis is an incredibly fast key-value store. It gets its speed by utilizing the memory of your machine to store its data. By using memory, it is able to achieve incredibly fast read and write speeds, especially when compared to the typical disk speed.

This data store has a wide variety of different use cases but is often used as a cache or message broker. We use it with our own website to help cache time consuming calls back to our database server. This helps reduce load on a more expensive server while also minimizing the latency.

Docker is a great tool for running Redis as you can always ensure you are running the latest available release and don't have to stress about changes to your underlying system from breaking it.

We choose to use a Docker Compose file to set up Redis as it makes managing containers a significantly simpler process. It is also the best way to run containers if you want multiple connected services such as a web server like Nginx and Redis.