Managed Redis

Redis is an in-memory data structure store widely used for caching, real-time analytics, and session management due to its high performance, low latency, and support for various data types. Defang can help you provision a managed Redis instance.

Current Support

Provider	Managed Redis
Playground	❌
AWS	✅
DigitalOcean	❌
GCP	❌

How to use Managed Redis

To use managed Redis, in your compose.yaml file, use the x-defang-redis extension to define your Redis service. Adding the extension will tell Defang to provision a managed instance, rather than running Redis as a service. Defang will use the image tag to determine the version to provision from your cloud provider. Here's an example:

cache:
  image: redis:6.2
  x-defang-redis: true
  restart: unless-stopped
  ports:
    - mode: host
      target: 6379

Final Snapshots

When a project is deployed with the production deployment mode any managed redis instances are automatically configured to create a snapshot of the datastore before deletion. The snapshot will be named with the following format

<project-name>-<service>-redis-<id>-final-snapshot

The AWS Console can be used to restore a snapshop into a new instance of redis.