How to correctly setup REDIS with DDEV / DOCKER for Laravel local?

Question

I am looking to setup Redis in my local dev environment, I am using DDEV in Laravel Projects.

I've followed the steps here to add redis to the project: https://github.com/drud/ddev-contrib/tree/master/docker-compose-services/redis

After a ddev restart I can see Redis is getting pulled into the container however it instantly falls over which you can see from running a docker ps -a.

Please would somebody be able to help with the correctly setting this up for a laravel project?

Just for reference I am on a MacbookAir 2021 BigSur M1 Chipset.

breakworm · Accepted Answer · 2023-02-13 13:26:31Z

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UPDATE 2023: Use github.com/drud/ddev-redis and ensure your redis server connection is set to redis in config. I just had to change redis host in database.php connection 127.0.0.1 to redis in a laravel 4.2 project to work locally.

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To get this working locally:

I updated the docker-compose.redis.yaml to the following:

# ddev redis recipe file
#
version: "3.6"

services:
  redis:
    container_name: ddev-${DDEV_SITENAME}-redis
    image: redis:latest
    ports:
      - 6379
    labels:
      com.ddev.site-name: ${DDEV_SITENAME}
      com.ddev.approot: $DDEV_APPROOT
    volumes:
      - ".:/mnt/ddev_config"
      - "./redis:/usr/local/etc/redis"
    command: ["redis-server", "--bind", "redis", "--port", "6379"]
  web:
    depends_on:
      - redis
    links:
      - redis:redis

Actual changes to file:

image: redis:latest

command: ["redis-server", "--bind", "redis", "--port", "6379"]

And in the projects .env file set:

REDIS_HOST=redis

Now the Redis container remains available:

Can now trigger and process correctly via:

ddev artisan queue:work redis --queue=mycustomqueue

edited Feb 13, 2023 at 13:26

answered Mar 16, 2021 at 14:10

breakworm

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6 Comments

rfay Over a year ago

If the recipe in github.com/drud/ddev-contrib/tree/master/… is incorrect, could you please make a PR there? It worked OK last I tried it. But it's not oriented at Laravel, so maybe that's the issue? Looks to me like the biggest issue might have just been the REDIS_HOST=redis in your .env.

breakworm Over a year ago

Thanks for the reply rfay, I've double checked on this and if I return the command line to: command: ["redis-server", "/usr/local/etc/redis/redis.conf"] Then this results in the redis container immediately falling over upon a ddev restart even though REDIS_HOST=redis is set in the .env. Changing the command line to: command: ["redis-server", "--bind", "redis", "--port", "6379"] This allows redis to spin up successfully for me. I've created a branch for this in the project however do not have to permission to push a branch and then create a pull request?

rfay Over a year ago

If you're asking how to create a PR in ddev-contrib... Like most open-source projects, you create a fork, then a branch in the fork, then create a PR.

breakworm Over a year ago

Cheers, this is my first open-source forking so appreciate the guidance. I've created a PR for this now.

rfay Over a year ago

These days, the official add-on would be better, github.com/drud/ddev-redis ddev get drud/ddev-redis

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