Running redis on nodejs Docker image

Question

I have a Docker image which is a node.js application. The app retrieves some configuration value from Redis which is running locally. Because of that, I am trying to

Answer 1

If you are looking for a bare minimum docker with nodejs and redis-server, this works :

FROM nikolaik/python-nodejs:python3.5-nodejs8

RUN apt-get update
apt-get -y install redis-server

COPY . /app
WORKDIR /app
nohup redis-server &> redis.log &

and then you can have further steps for your node application.