Docker-Redis

Summary

Repository name in Docker Hub: williamyeh/redis⁠

This repository contains Dockerized Redis⁠, published to the public Docker Hub⁠ via automated build mechanism.

Configuration

This docker image contains the following software stack:

• OS: Debian jessie (built from debian:jessie⁠).

• Redis

Dependencies

• debian:jessie⁠.

History

• 0.4 - Make client more flexible.

• 0.3 - Add more convenient wrapper (benchmark).

• 0.2 - Add more convenient wrappers (usage.sh, start, client).

• 0.1 - This repository was forked from dockerfile/redis⁠.

Why yet another Redis image for Docker?

There has been quite a few Redis images for Docker (e.g., search⁠ in the Docker Hub), so why reinvent the wheel?

In the beginning I used the dockerfile/redis⁠. It worked well, but left some room for improvement:

• Base OS image - It was built from dockerfile/ubuntu⁠, which may not be the smallest one. On the other hand, debian:jessie⁠, as recommended in this article⁠, worth a try.

• Unnecessary dependencies - It installed, at the very beginning of its parent's Dockerfile⁠, the software-properties-common⁠ package, which in turns installed some Python3 packages. I prefered to incorporate these stuff only when absolutely needed.

Therefore, I built this Docker image on my own, also as an exercise.

In addition, I add several convenient wrappers for Redis executables.

Good alternatives

Now Docker official image redis⁠ has smaller image size and good version management. You may try it, instead.

Installation

$ docker pull williamyeh/redis

Usage

Show usage

$ docker run --rm williamyeh/redis