If you are looking out for a tool which can inspect your Redis data, monitor health, and perform runtime server configuration with a browser-based management interface for your Redis deployment, then I would recommend “RedisInsight”. RedisInsight is built by RedisLabs, offered free of cost and help in gaining insights into real-time performance metrics, inspect slow commands, and manage Redis configuration directly through the interface.
RedisInsight offers the following features –
- Easy to use browser based interface to search keys, view and edit data
- Only GUI tool to support Redis Cluster
- Supports SSL/TLS based connections
- Memory Analysis
Redis is an in-memory but persistent on disk database, so it represents a different trade off where very high write and read speed is achieved with the limitation of data sets that can’t be larger than memory. Hence, it becomes important to keep track of Memory usage. One of the exciting feature of RedisInsight is Memory analysis. Memory analysis help you analyze your Redis instance and helps in reducing memory usage and improving application performance. Analysis can be done in two ways: online mode – In this mode, RedisInsight downloads a rdb file from your connected Redis instance and analyzes it to create a temp file with all the keys and meta data required for analysis. In case there is a master-slave connection, RedisInsight downloads the dump from the slave instead of the master in order to avoid affecting the performance of the master.
RedisInsight today runs on bare metal, VM, on your desktop and inside container too. Running it inside Docker container is an one-liner command:
docker run -v redisinsight:/db -p 8001:8001 redislabs/redisinsightUnder this blog post, I will showcase how to run RedisInsight on a single-node Kubernetes cluster running on Docker Desktop for Mac.
Pre-requisite
- Docker Desktop for Mac
- Enable Kubernetes
Install Redis
brew install redisRunning Redis-Server with auth
~ % redis-server --requirepass redis12#
1825:C 29 Mar 2020 00:52:56.943 # oO0OoO0OoO0Oo Redis is starting oO0OoO0OoO0Oo
1825:C 29 Mar 2020 00:52:56.943 # Redis version=5.0.7, bits=64, commit=00000000, modified=0, pid=1825, just started
1825:C 29 Mar 2020 00:52:56.943 # Configuration loaded
1825:M 29 Mar 2020 00:52:56.945 * Increased maximum number of open files to 10032 (it was originally set to 2560).
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1825:M 29 Mar 2020 00:52:56.946 # Server initialized
1825:M 29 Mar 2020 00:52:56.947 * DB loaded from disk: 0.000 seconds
1825:M 29 Mar 2020 00:52:56.947 * Ready to accept connectionsPush Hash keys into Redis using Python
If you’re a Python developer, here’s a bonus. Use the below code snippet to get your dataset into Redis Database. I could push over 1 million dataset into Redis database in just 43 seconds. Interesting, isn’t it?
Copy the below content into a file called push-keys-auth.python
import redis
# Create connection object
r = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0, password='redis12#')
# set a value for the foo object
r.set('foo', 'bar')
# retrieve and print the value for the foo object
print(r.get('foo'))Running Python Script
python push-keys-auth.pyVerifying Single Node Kubernetes Cluster
kubectl get nodes
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION
docker-desktop Ready master 15h v1.15.5
Running RedisInsight inside Kubernetes Pods
You can download YAML file from this link
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: redisinsight #deployment name
labels:
app: redisinsight #deployment label
spec:
replicas: 1 #a single replica pod
selector:
matchLabels:
app: redisinsight #which pods is the deployment managing, as defined by the pod template
template: #pod template
metadata:
labels:
app: redisinsight #label for pod/s
spec:
containers:
- name: redisinsight #Container name (DNS_LABEL, unique)
image: redislabs/redisinsight #repo/image
imagePullPolicy: Always #Always pull image
volumeMounts:
- name: db #Pod volumes to mount into the container's filesystem. Cannot be updated.
mountPath: /db
ports:
- containerPort: 8001 #exposed conainer port and protocol
protocol: TCP
volumes:
- name: db
emptyDir: {} # node-ephemeral volume https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/#emptydirajeetraina@Ajeet-Rainas-Macbook-Pro ~ % kubectl apply -f redisinsight.yaml
ajeetraina@Ajeet-Rainas-Macbook-Pro ~ % kubectl get po,svc,deploy
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
pod/redisinsight-6b6b9d69c5-sfztk 1/1 Running 0 4m24s
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
service/kubernetes ClusterIP 10.96.0.1 <none> 443/TCP 15h
NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE
deployment.extensions/redisinsight 1/1 1 1 4m24s
ajeetraina@Ajeet-Rainas-Macbook-Pro ~ %
Port Forwarding
Once the deployment has been successfully applied and the deployment complete, access RedisInsight. This can be accomplished by exposing the deployment as a K8s Service or by using port forwarding, as in the example below:
kubectl port-forward deployment/redisinsight 8001
Open your browser and point to http://localhost:8001
As you see above, RedisInsight displays one key which we inserted using Python at the beginning of this blog.
In my next blog post, I will talk about Redis Operator for Kubernetes. Stay tuned !
