Connecting to Redis running in Docker Container from Host machine

Question

I see lots of people struggling with this, sort of feel like maybe there is a bug in the redis container image, and others seem to be chasing a similar problem.

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Answer 1

Here are some instructions to make this work properly.

Install Official Docker not Distro repo.

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sudo sh get-docker.sh
systemctl enable docker ; systemctl start docker; systemctl status docker

Refer to Install using the convenience script

Connect to Redis container from host

mkdir -p /etc/redis/
chown -R 1000:1000 /etc/redis
sudo docker run -d --name redis -p 6379:6379 --restart unless-stopped -v /etc/redis/:/data redis redis-server /data

NOTE: The important part that is key to your solution is to have port expose (-p 6379:6379) to your docker host and route to container port. Refer to Redis Docker Documentation

Install "redis-tools" in your docker host. Centos install redis via epel release.