A Vagrant(http://vagrantup.com) setup that creates an ubuntu virtual machine running redis

init.sh

#!/bin/bash
mkdir /opt/redis
mkdir /opt/redis/bin

cd /opt/redis
wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.6.7.tar.gz
tar xzf redis-2.6.7.tar.gz

cd redis-2.6.7
make

cp src/redis-server /opt/redis/bin/redis-server
cp src/redis-cli /opt/redis/bin/redis-cli

cp /vagrant/redis.init.d /etc/init.d/redis
cp /vagrant/redis.conf /etc/redis.conf

useradd redis

/etc/init.d/redis start

redis.init.d

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:     redis-server
# Required-Start:   $syslog
# Required-Stop:    $syslog
# Should-Start:     $local_fs
# Should-Stop:      $local_fs
# Default-Start:    2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:     0 1 6
# Short-Description:    redis-server - Persistent key-value db
# Description:      redis-server - Persistent key-value db
### END INIT INFO


PATH=/opt/redis/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=`which redis-server`
REDIS_CLI=`which redis-cli`
CONFIG_FILE=/etc/redis.conf
DAEMON_ARGS="$CONFIG_FILE"
NAME=redis-server
DESC=redis-server
PIDFILE=/var/run/redis.pid
LOGFILE=/var/log/redis.log

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
test -x $DAEMONBOOTSTRAP || exit 0

set -e

case "$1" in
  start)
    echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
    touch $PIDFILE $LOGFILE
    chown redis:redis $PIDFILE $LOGFILE
    if start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --umask 007 --pidfile $PIDFILE --chuid redis:redis --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_ARGS
    then
        echo "$NAME."
    else
        echo "failed"
    fi
    ;;
  stop)
    echo "Stopping $DESC"
    if [ ! -e "$PIDFILE" ]
    then
      echo "failed"
    else
      LISTENING_PORT=`grep -E "^ *port +([0-9]+) *$" "$CONFIG_FILE" | grep -Eo "[0-9]+"`
      $REDIS_CLI -p $LISTENING_PORT SHUTDOWN
      #rm -f $PIDFILE
    fi
    ;;

  restart|force-reload)
    ${0} stop
    ${0} start
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0

Vagrantfile

Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu-12.04-amd64"

  # THE URL FROM WHERE THE 'CONFIG.VM.BOX' BOX WILL BE FETCHED IF IT
  # DOESN'T ALREADY EXIST ON THE USER'S SYSTEM.
  config.vm.box_url = "http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4031118/Vagrant/ubuntu-12.04.1-server-i686-virtual.box"
  config.vm.forward_port 6379, 6379
  config.vm.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", 1024]

  config.vm.provision :shell, :path => "init.sh"
end