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Using the Redis Official Docker Image on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 22.10 kinetic.

#docker #redis #rust #python

The Redis Docker Official Image includes both the Redis server and the Redis CLI. We discuss the setup process to use both on Windows 10 Pro and Ubuntu 22.10 kinetic. The actual Redis database file resides in a directory of our own designation on the host machine. We test the setup using the container CLI, as well as a very simple Rust program and a simple Python script.

Table of contents

Get It Ready in 5 (Five) Steps

❶ Pull the latest Redis Docker Official Image.

▶️Windows 10: docker pull redis
▶️Ubuntu 22.10: $ sudo docker pull redis
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❷ Create a bridge network to enable running Redis CLI.

▶️Windows 10: docker network create -d bridge redis-network
▶️Ubuntu 22.10: $ sudo docker network create -d bridge redis-network
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❸ Prepare database directory, i.e. data volume.

On Windows 10, the database directory is D:\Database\Redis, which translates to //d/database/redis for volume mounting. On Ubuntu 22.10, the database directory is /home/behai/Public/database/redis.

The data volume mountings are then:

▶️Windows 10: --mount type=bind,source=//d/database/redis,target=/data
▶️Ubuntu 22.10: --mount type=bind,source=/home/behai/Public/database/redis,target=/data
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❹ 🚀 The final command is:

▶️Windows 10: docker run --publish=6379:6379 --network redis-network -d -it --mount type=bind,source=//d/database/redis,target=/data --name redis-docker redis
▶️Ubuntu 22.10: $ sudo docker run --publish=6379:6379 --network redis-network -d -it --mount type=bind,source=/home/behai/Public/database/redis,target=/data --name redis-docker redis
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❺ Verify the container is running.

▶️Windows 10: docker logs redis-docker
▶️Ubuntu 22.10: $ sudo docker logs redis-docker
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The output should look like:

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The following warning line should not be in the above output:

# Warning: Could not create server TCP listening socket ::1:16379: bind: Cannot assign requested address
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The Redis container should now be ready. We can now talk to the Redis server using Redis CLI. And also programmatically via Rust and Python.

After Pulling, Storing and Loading the Image Locally

After pulling any image, we can save it locally and later load it from another machine etc., which helps saving some bandwidth data 😂...

I pull the Redis image on my Windows 10 machine using the command:

F:\>docker pull redis
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We can then verify it's been pulled successfully, and also to find out the image TAG label, with:

F:\>docker images
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We should find it in the output list:

REPOSITORY          TAG                       IMAGE ID       CREATED         SIZE
redis               latest                    e40e2763392d   2 weeks ago     138MB
...
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We can then save it locally:

F:\>docker save redis:latest --output E:\docker-images\redis-7-2-3-latest.tar
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I copy redis-7-2-3-latest.tar to Ubuntu 22.10's Public/ directory, and load it up with the command:

$ sudo docker load --input Public/redis-7-2-3-latest.tar
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Running the Redis CLI

There're two (2) ways to run the Redis CLI: Bash mode interactive and directly via the container.


❶ Bash mode interactive.

Given that the Redis container discussed above is running, get into the container Bash mode interactive with the command:

▶️Windows 10: docker exec -it redis-docker bash
▶️Ubuntu 22.10: $ sudo docker exec -it redis-docker bash
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The prompt changes to something like the following root@b764904a70a6:/data#. Now run redis-cli:

root@b764904a70a6:/data# redis-cli
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The prompt changes to 127.0.0.1:6379>. 🚀 Run the ping command, we should get the PONG response.

Now try setting some data and retrieving it using the following two (2) commands:

127.0.0.1:6379> SET mykey "Hello\nWorld"
127.0.0.1:6379> GET mykey
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To quit, use the exit command until we get returned to the console.


❷ Directly via the container.

▶️Windows 10: docker run -it --network redis-network --rm redis redis-cli -h redis-docker
▶️Ubuntu 22.10: $ sudo docker run -it --network redis-network --rm redis redis-cli -h redis-docker
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💥 Note the --network redis-network parameter, without it, we won't be able to run the CLI via the container.

The prompt changes to 127.0.0.1:6379>, we can now repeat the above command sequence.

The screenshot below shows the running and the output of the processes just discussed:

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We can now stop the container with:

▶️Windows 10: docker stop redis-docker
▶️Ubuntu 22.10: $ sudo docker stop redis-docker
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The in-memory data'll be written to dump.rdb in the database directory specified above. We can view it as text. The above test produces something similar to the content below:

REDIS0011�      redis-ver7.2.3�
redis-bits�@�ctime�]�eused-mem� Xaof-base���mykey
                                                 Hello
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Restart the container again with:

▶️Windows 10: docker restart redis-docker
▶️Ubuntu 22.10: $ sudo docker restart redis-docker
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Try the CLI again, and run the command get mykey, the data should still be there. New data are written to the same file.

Rust and Python test code

The test code is extremely simple, taken directly from respective official documentations. The primary purpose of the test code is to verify that we can programmatically access the Docker Redis server.

Rust test code

The Redis official page Connect with Redis clients doesn't mention Rust. Crate redis seems popular on https://crates.io/.

The Rust test code is taken directly from the crate redis official documentation.

Content of Cargo.toml:
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[package]
name = "redis"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2021"

# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html

[dependencies]
redis = "0.24.0"
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Content of src/main.rs:
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use redis::Commands;

fn do_something() -> redis::RedisResult<i32> {
    let client = redis::Client::open("redis://127.0.0.1/")?;
    let mut con = client.get_connection()?;

    let _ : () = con.set("my_key", 42)?;
    let res = con.get("my_key")?;

    Ok(res)
}

fn main() {
    match do_something() {
        Ok(i) => println!("result: {}", i),
        Err(e) => println!("Error {}", e)
    }
}
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The screenshot below shows the output of the program, and some CLI tests to verify that the program has successfully written data to the database file:

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Python test code

The test code is taken from the following official documents: Redis Python guide and GitHub redis-py.

Activate a virtual environment and install the Python redis-py package:

pip install redis
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Content of redis1.py:
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import redis

def some_thing():
    r = redis.Redis(host='localhost', port=6379, decode_responses=True)

    print('my_key value, set previously: ', r.get('my_key'))
    print('mykey value, set previously: ', r.get('mykey'))

    r.set('python', 'Python and Redis')
    print('python value, just set: ', r.get('python'))

some_thing()
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The command to run the redis1.py script:

▶️Windows 10: (venv) F:\pydev>venv\Scripts\python.exe redis1.py
▶️Ubuntu 22.10: (venv) behai@hp-pavilion-15:~/pydev$ venv/bin/python redis1.py
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Output on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 22.10:

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Unable to Apply Custom Config: no Remote Connection

The Redis Docker Official Image states that we can run the image with a custom configuration file which lives locally on the host machine:

Alternatively, you can specify something along the same lines with docker run options.

$ docker run -v /myredis/conf:/usr/local/etc/redis --name myredis redis redis-server /usr/local/etc/redis/redis.conf

Where /myredis/conf/ is a local directory containing your redis.conf file. Using this method means that there is no need for you to have a Dockerfile for your redis container.

The mapped directory should be writable, as depending on the configuration and mode of operation, Redis may need to create additional configuration files or rewrite existing ones.

And I've taken the example configuration from this official page Redis configuration file example. And the location of the custom configuration file in each host machine is: 

Windows 10: E:\redis-config\redis.conf
Ubuntu 22.10: /home/behai/Public/database/redis-config/redis.conf
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The command to run with a custom configuration file:

▶️Windows 10: docker run --publish=6379:6379 --network redis-network -d -it --rm --mount type=bind,source=//d/database/redis,target=/data -v //e/redis-config:/usr/local/etc/redis --name redis-docker redis redis-server /usr/local/etc/redis/redis.conf
▶️Ubuntu 22.10: $ sudo docker run --publish=6379:6379 --network redis-network -d -it --rm --mount type=bind,source=/home/behai/Public/database/redis,target=/data -v /home/behai/Public/database/redis-config:/usr/local/etc/redis --name redis-docker redis redis-server /usr/local/etc/redis/redis.conf
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It does not report any problem, but checking the status with:

▶️Windows 10: docker logs redis-docker
▶️Ubuntu 22.10: $ sudo docker logs redis-docker
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shows the following warning:

Warning: Could not create server TCP listening socket ::1:6379: bind: Cannot assign requested address
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👎 We won't be able to run the CLI directly via the container as discussed. 🚀 However, the Bash mode interactive still works.

From my Windows 10 machine, I can't programmatically connect to the Redis container running on Ubuntu 22.10 -- see Rust and Python test code section.

-- I just change localhost to the IP address of the Ubuntu 22.10 machine, and also allow traffics through port 6379 with command sudo ufw allow 6379.

I assume that the server has been configured to recognise only traffics from localhost? A custom configure would help to overwrite this, but I'm not able to do this... This is a task for another day.

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