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# Tags and `Dockerfile` links
- [`2.6.17`, `2.6` (*2.6.17/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/redis/blob/02d9cd887a4e0d50db4bb085eab7235115a6fe4a/2.6.17/Dockerfile)
- [`2.8.10` (*2.8.10/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/redis/blob/ffb29617e5dcfe71adf67842d18063c410beede7/2.8.10/Dockerfile)
- [`2.8.11` (*2.8.11/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/redis/blob/ffb29617e5dcfe71adf67842d18063c410beede7/2.8.11/Dockerfile)
- [`2.8.12` (*2.8.12/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/redis/blob/ffb29617e5dcfe71adf67842d18063c410beede7/2.8.12/Dockerfile)
- [`2.8.13`, `2.8`, `latest` (*2.8.13/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/redis/blob/d0665bb1bbddd4cc035dbc1fc774695fa534d648/2.8.13/Dockerfile)
- [`2.8.6` (*2.8.6/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/redis/blob/ffb29617e5dcfe71adf67842d18063c410beede7/2.8.6/Dockerfile)
- [`2.8.7` (*2.8.7/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/redis/blob/ffb29617e5dcfe71adf67842d18063c410beede7/2.8.7/Dockerfile)
- [`2.8.8` (*2.8.8/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/redis/blob/ffb29617e5dcfe71adf67842d18063c410beede7/2.8.8/Dockerfile)
- [`2.8.9` (*2.8.9/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/redis/blob/ffb29617e5dcfe71adf67842d18063c410beede7/2.8.9/Dockerfile)
# What is Redis?
Redis is an open-source, networked, in-memory, key-value data store with optional durability. It is written in ANSI C. The development of Redis has been sponsored by Pivotal since May 2013; before that, it was sponsored by VMware. According to the monthly ranking by DB-Engines.com, Redis is the most popular key-value store. The name Redis means REmote DIctionary Server.
> [wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis)
# How to use this image
## start a redis instance
docker run --name some-redis -d redis
This image includes `EXPOSE 6379` (the redis port), so standard container linking will make it automatically available to the linked containers (as the following examples illustrate).
## start with persistent storage
docker run --name some-redis -d redis redis-server --appendonly yes
If persistence is enabled, data is stored in the `VOLUME /data`, which can be used with `--volumes-from some-volume-container` or `-v /docker/host/dir:/data` (see [docs.docker volumes](http://docs.docker.com/userguide/dockervolumes/)).
For more about Redis Persistence, see [http://redis.io/topics/persistence](http://redis.io/topics/persistence).
## connect to it from an application
docker run --name some-app --link some-redis:redis -d application-that-uses-redis
## ... or via `redis-cli`
docker run -it --link some-redis:redis --rm redis sh -c 'exec redis-cli -h "$REDIS_PORT_6379_TCP_ADDR" -p "$REDIS_PORT_6379_TCP_PORT"'
## Additionally, If you want to use your own redis.conf ...
You can create your own Dockerfile that adds a redis.conf from the context into /data/, like so.
FROM redis
redis.conf /data/
CMD [ "redis-server", "/data/redis.conf" ]
Alternatively, you can specify something along the same lines with `docker run` options.
ocker run --volumes-from datacontainer --name myredis redis
Using this method means that there is no need for you to have a Dockerfile for your redis container.
# User Feedback
## Issues
If you have any problems with, or questions about this image, please contact us
through a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/docker-library/redis/issues) or via the IRC channel
`#docker-library` on [Freenode](https://freenode.net).
## Contributing
You are invited to contribute new features, fixes, or updates, large or small; we are
always thrilled to receive pull requests, and do our best to process them as fast as
we can.
Before you start to code, we recommend discussing your plans through a
[GitHub issue](https://github.com/docker-library/redis/issues), especially for more ambitious contributions. This gives
other contributors a chance to point you in the right direction, give you feedback on
your design, and help you find out if someone else is working on the same thing.