Accessing GCP Memorystore from local machines

Question

Whats the best way to access Memorystore from Local Machines during development? Is there something like Cloud SQL Proxy that I can use to set up a tunnel?

Answer 1

You can spin up a Compute Engine instance and setup an haproxy using the following docker image haproxy docker image then haproxy will forward your tcp requests to memorystore.

For example i want to access memorystore instance with ip 10.0.0.12 so added the following haproxy configs:

frontend redis_frontend
   bind *:6379
   mode tcp
   option tcplog
   timeout client  1m
   default_backend redis_backend

backend redis_backend
   mode tcp
   option tcplog
   option log-health-checks
   option redispatch
   log global
   balance roundrobin
   timeout connect 10s
   timeout server 1m
   server redis_server 10.0.0.12:6379 check

So now you can access memorystore from your local machine using the following command:

redis-cli -h  -p 6379

Note: replace with you actual haproxy ip address.

Hope that can help you to solve your problem.