Docker image with redis built and installed from source.

The main usage for this container is to test redis cluster code. For example in https://github.com/Grokzen/redis-py-cluster repo.

The cluster is 6 redis instances running with 3 master & 3 slaves, one slave for each master. They run on ports 7000 to 7005.

It also contains 2 standalone instances that is not part of the cluster. They are running on port 7006 & 7007

It will allways build the latest commit in the 3.0 branch https://github.com/antirez/redis/tree/3.0

This image requires Docker above version 1.0

If you want to use docker-compose (fig) please read next section.

Either download the latest build from docker hub with docker pull grokzen/redis-cluster

Or to build the image, use either make build or make rebuild. It will be built to the image name grokzen/redis-cluster.

To start the image use make run. It will be started in the background. To gain access to the running image you can get a bash session by running make bash.

Redis cli can be used with make cli to gain access to one of the cluster servers.

This image contains a compose.yml file that can be used with docker-compose (fig) to run the image. Docker compose is simpler to use then the old Makefile.

Build the image with docker-compose -f compose.yml build.

Start the image after building with docker-compose -f compose.yml up. Add -d to run the server in background/detatched mode.

If you get a error when rebuilding the image that docker can't do dns lookup on archive.ubuntu.com then you need to modify docker to use google IPv4 DNS lookups. Read the following link http://dannytsang.co.uk/docker-on-digitalocean-cannot-resolve-hostnames/ and uncomment the line in /etc/default/docker and restart your docker daemon and it should be fixed.