Install Redis on EC2

install-redis.sh

1. Install Linux updates, set time zones, followed by GCC and Make

sudo yum -y update
sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Indianapolis \
/etc/localtime
sudo yum -y install gcc make
 

2. Download, Untar and Make Redis 2.8 (check here http://redis.io/download)

cd /tmp
wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-2.8.12.tar.gz
tar xzf redis-2.8.12.tar.gz
cd redis-2.8.12
make
 

3. Create Directories and Copy Redis Files

sudo mkdir /etc/redis 
sudo mkdir /var/lib/redis
sudo cp src/redis-server src/redis-cli /usr/local/bin/
sudo cp redis.conf /etc/redis/
 

4. Configure Redis.Conf

sudo vim /etc/redis/redis.conf
  [..]
  daemonize yes
  [..]
  
  [..]
  bind 127.0.0.1
  [..]
  
  [..]
  dir /var/lib/redis
  [..]
 

5. Download init Script

cd /tmp
wget https://raw.github.com/saxenap/install-redis-amazon-linux-centos/master/redis-server
 

6. Move and Configure Redis-Server

Note: The redis-server to be moved below is the one downloaded in 5 above.

sudo mv redis-server /etc/init.d
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/redis-server
sudo vim /etc/init.d/redis-server
  redis="/usr/local/bin/redis-server"
 

7. Auto-Enable Redis-Server

sudo chkconfig --add redis-server
sudo chkconfig --level 345 redis-server on
 

8. Start Redis Server

sudo service redis-server start

// Taken from http://codingsteps.com/install-redis-2-6-on-amazon-ec2-linux-ami-or-centos/ and updated.

Thanks, I've just change version redis from 2.8 to 3.02. It's done.

My Amazon EC2 Linux instance is not able to register redis-server as a service:

$ sudo chkconfig --add redis-server
service redis-server does not support chkconfig

sudo chkconfig --level 345 redis-server on
service redis-server does not support chkconfig

What the fix for this?

Yes, I have the same problem that @ChristianRich

i have same problem ..
and this is what ive done ..
on dir /etc/init.d

systemctl start redis-server

systemctl enable redis-server

systemctl daemon-reload

then redis up..

Awesome job 💯

Consider setting the wget url to http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-stable.tar.gz

Thanks for this nice script!

Thanks for the script.

script is clean bro

Thank you for the script

The built binaries will segfault if you just move them. Instead run sudo make install.

thank for sharing

thanks man! It is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

Thanks man !!! super clean and great !