Setting up the Redis server in your local machine

Redis stands for remote dictionary server. Simply we can describe it as s a key value store.This key-value store can be used as a database to read and write data as key-value.

Step 1

Download the Redis server . (In this article I used Ubuntu operation system)

We need to install two packages.

1. Build essential package (Used to compilers our binaries)
2. TCL package (Used to test our binaries)

Execute following commands in your terminal.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential tcl

Download, extract and compile Redis with:

$ wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-6.0.5.tar.gz
$ tar xzf redis-6.0.5.tar.gz
$ cd redis-6.0.5
$ make

After press enter you van see the Redis server version.

apt-cache policy redis-server 

Step 2

After setting up the Redis Server, navigate to the location you installed Redis and execute the sudo make install command.

Step 3

Enter redis-server command to start the Redis server.

Step 4

In the command line, you can see the Redis port and PID as shown below. Now your redis-server is started.

Step 5

You can interact with Redis using the built-in client. In the command line, navigate to the location you installed Redis. Enter redis-cli.

Done !!! You can store key values pairs in the redis server.

Reference

https://ei.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/micro-integrator/references/connectors/redis-connector/redis-connector-configuration/