Redis

devstack add redis

Options

Flag	Default	Description
-p, --port	6379	Host port to expose
--password	(none)	Optional password

Password is optional. If omitted, Redis runs without authentication (fine for local dev).

Connection string

redis://localhost:6379
# with password:
redis://:yourpassword@localhost:6379

Connect interactively

devstack connect redis

Opens redis-cli inside the running container.

Application config examples

.env

REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379

TypeScript (ioredis)

import Redis from 'ioredis';
const redis = new Redis(process.env.REDIS_URL);

Python (redis-py)

import redis
r = redis.from_url('redis://localhost:6379')