Redis is an Open Source in memory Key – Value Data Store that has gained in popularity over the past few years. It is currently in use and highly praised by tech companies such as Twitter, Stack Exchange and Github.
Since I’ve seen quite a few comments about Redis in the past few weeks I figured it would be a good time to write about installing Redis and setting up Master – Slave Replication.
Setup the Master Server
Install the Server
In this article we will be installing Redis on Ubuntu 13.10; we can do this using the apt package manager.
ubuntu@redis-master:~$ sudo apt-get install redis-server