Installing Redis on MacOs with or without using Homebrew

Homebrew is a package management system which saves time from searching version and configuration of latest software packages. If you have not install the homebrew run the command from the homebrew website.

Now to install redis using brew

> brew install redis

To start the redis

Redis run in same way as we run mysql

> brew services start redis

Redis by default will start at 6379 port. You can check if its running or not by running command redis-cli. If it is connected you can run further redis command else it will show not connected.

Configure the redis

You can configure the redis by making changes in configuration which can be found at

/usr/local/etc/redis.conf

To stop the Redis server

> brew stop services redis

Install using Redis binary

We can install redis directly by downloading from redis website.

We can also run following command

> wget https://download.redis.io/releases/redis-6.2.3.tar.gz
> tar xzf redis-6.2.3.tar.gz

Building the server

To make we can run make command with different option to keep it simple just run

> make 

Installing globally

To install globally run the command

> make install

It will install the redis-server, redis-benchmark and redis-cli command globally. You can run these commands from anywhere. If you want to access the redis command line only from the downloaded folder skip this command.

Running the redis server

> src/redis-server
// or (if installed globally)
> redis-server   

Running the redis command line

Open new terminal and run

> src/redis-cli
// or (if installed globally)
> redis-cli

Unistall

If installed using brew run command

> brew uninstall redis

If installed by downloading remove the downloaded folder, and if installed globally run command:

> rm -r /usr/local/bin/redis*

You are good to start with learning Redis now.