Redis

Lithops with Redis as storage backend.

Installation

1. Install Redis >= 5.

2. Secure your installation by setting a password in the redis configuration file.

Configuration

3. Edit your lithops config file and add the following keys:

    lithops:
        storage: redis

    redis:
        host : <REDIS_HOST_IP>
        port : <REDIS_HOST_PORT>
        password: <REDIS_PASSWORD>

Summary of configuration keys for Redis

Group	Key	Default	Mandatory	Additional info
redis	host	localhost	no	The host ip adress where you installed the Redis server.
redis	port	6379	no	The port where the redis server is listening
redis	username	None	no	The username (if any)
redis	password	None	no	The password you set in the Redis configuration file (if any)
redis	db	0	no	Number of database to use
redis	ssl	False	no	Activate ssl conection
redis	…		no	All the parameters set in this lithops redis config section are directly passed to a reds.Redis() instance, so you can set all the same parameters if necessary.