Create Redis via Application¶

You can create many Redis instances for your Application.

Prerequisites¶

• Member of a NAIS team

Enable Redis in your manifest¶

spec:
  redis:
    - instance: sessions
      access: readwrite
    - instance: lookup
      access: read

The above snippet will allow your application to use the sessions Redis instance, and provide the application with credentials for a read/write user. In addition, the application will get credentials for a read-only user for the lookup instance. See the manifest reference for other options for access.

The default Redis created by NAIS looks like this:

apiVersion: aiven.io/v1alpha1
kind: Redis
metadata:
  labels:
    app: redis-tester
    team: myteam
  name: redis-myteam-sessions
  namespace: myteam
spec:
  plan: startup-4
  project: nav-dev

If all you need is a Redis instance for one application using just the default settings, this is all you need. If you want to share a Redis instance across applications, or want to change configuration away from the defaults, please read the section on explicitly creating Redis instances.

For each Redis instance, your application will receive three environment variables. The environment variables use a fixed prefix, and the instance name uppercased as a suffix.