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Configuring Redis using a ConfigMap

This page provides a real world example of how to configure Redis using a ConfigMap and builds upon the Using ConfigMap Data in Pods and Configure Containers Using a ConfigMap tasks.

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Real World Example: Configuring Redis using a ConfigMap

You can follow the steps below to configure a Redis cache using data stored in a ConfigMap.

  1. Create a ConfigMap from the docs/user-guide/configmap/redis/redis-config file:

    kubectl create configmap example-redis-config --from-file=docs/user-guide/configmap/redis/redis-config
    
    kubectl get configmap example-redis-config -o yaml
    
    apiVersion: v1
    data:
      redis-config: |
        maxmemory 2mb
        maxmemory-policy allkeys-lru
    kind: ConfigMap
    metadata:
      creationTimestamp: 2016-03-30T18:14:41Z
      name: example-redis-config
      namespace: default
      resourceVersion: "24686"
      selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/default/configmaps/example-redis-config
      uid: 460a2b6e-f6a3-11e5-8ae5-42010af00002
    
  2. Create a pod specification that uses the config data stored in the ConfigMap:

    apiVersion: v1
    kind: Pod
    metadata:
      name: redis
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: redis
        image: kubernetes/redis:v1
        env:
        - name: MASTER
          value: "true"
        ports:
        - containerPort: 6379
        resources:
          limits:
            cpu: "0.1"
        volumeMounts:
        - mountPath: /redis-master-data
          name: data
        - mountPath: /redis-master
          name: config
      volumes:
        - name: data
          emptyDir: {}
        - name: config
          configMap:
            name: example-redis-config
            items:
            - key: redis-config
              path: redis.conf
    
  3. Create the pod:

    kubectl create -f docs/user-guide/configmap/redis/redis-pod.yaml
    

    In the example, the config volume is mounted at /redis-master. It uses path to add the redis-config key to a file named redis.conf. The file path for the redis config, therefore, is /redis-master/redis.conf. This is where the image will look for the config file for the redis master.

  4. Use kubectl exec to enter the pod and run the redis-cli tool to verify that the configuration was correctly applied:

    kubectl exec -it redis redis-cli
    127.0.0.1:6379> CONFIG GET maxmemory
    1) "maxmemory"
    2) "2097152"
    127.0.0.1:6379> CONFIG GET maxmemory-policy
    1) "maxmemory-policy"
    2) "allkeys-lru"
    

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