an Ansible playbook for deploying a secured and optimized Redis instance
Based originally on DigitailOcean's guide to deploying a Redis instance:
How to install and configure redis on Ubuntu 16.04
This playbook looks to automate the tedious setup process by performing the following tasks:
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Update OS with apt-get
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Install Redis dependencies
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Install Redis from source (test, make)
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Configure and secure Redis-as-a-service
- Create a
redisuser and group - Create data and logging directories
- Enable Redis socket support (
redis-cli -a redis -s /var/run/redis/redis.sock)
- Create a
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Optimize Redis
- Disable Transparent Huge Pages (THP) support
- Increase TCP backlog
- Enable low-memory DB saves
Run vagrant up to provision a Redis instance available from your local machine.