Installing from source
Prerequisites
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential tcl
cd /tmp
curl -O http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz
tar xzvf redis-stable.tar.gz
cd redis-stable
make
make test
sudo make install
Config for installing from source
sudo mkdir /etc/redis
sudo cp /tmp/redis-stable/redis.conf /etc/redis
sudo nano /etc/redis/redis.conf
Update above file for following line
supervised systemd
dir /var/lib/redis
For running Redis as service
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/redis.service
Add following
[Unit]
Description=Redis In-Memory Data Store
After=network.target
[Service]
User=redis
Group=redis
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf
ExecStop=/usr/local/bin/redis-cli shutdown
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Create Redis user and dirs
sudo adduser --system --group --no-create-home redis
sudo mkdir /var/lib/redis
sudo chown redis:redis /var/lib/redis
sudo chmod 770 /var/lib/redis
Start and Test Redis
sudo systemctl start redis
sudo systemctl status redis
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