Create a Memorystore for Redis instance by using the Google Cloud console

Create a Memorystore for Redis instance by using the Google Cloud console

Note: If you are looking for the Memorystore for Redis Cluster documentation, see Instance provisioning on a VPC network.

Learn how to create a new Memorystore for Redis instance, connect to it, and then delete it.

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Before you begin

1. Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.

2. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   Go to project selector

3. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

4. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   Go to project selector

5. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

Creating a Redis instance

1. Go to the Memorystore for Redis page in the Google Cloud console.
   Memorystore for Redis
   
   If the Memorystore page is unavailable, enable or re-enable the Memorystore for Redis API.
   Enable the API
2. Click Create Instance.
   

3. On the Create a Redis instance page, select the configurations for your new instance.

   • Enter my-instance-1 under Instance ID.
   • Enter My Quickstart Instance under Display name.
   • Choose Basic under the Tier selector.
     • Basic Tier designates a standalone Redis node, as opposed to Standard Tier, which uses a replica node to backup your data.
   • Choose us-central1 from the Region dropdown.
   • Choose any from the Zone dropdown.
   • Enter 5 under Capacity.
     • This sets your instance capacity to 5 GB.
   • Under Version, select 5.0 (recommended).
   • Choose default from the Authorized network dropdown.

4. Click the Create button.

   Note: Memorystore does not support legacy mode networks. To create a Redis instance, use a VPC network. For more information, see Using VPC Networks.

   Your instance is created.

5. After the instance is created, obtain your instance's IP address by following these steps:

   1. Go to the Memorystore for Redis page in the Google Cloud console.
      Memorystore for Redis
   2. Click on the ID of the instance: my-instance-1.
   3. Under Connection properties, take a note of your instance's IP address.
   4. Also note that your instance's Port number is 6379.

Connecting to the Redis instance from a Compute Engine VM instance

You can connect to the Redis instance from any Compute Engine VM that uses the Redis instance's authorized network with a supported RFC 1918 IP address.

1. If you don't already have a Compute Engine VM that uses that same authorized network as your Redis instance, create one and connect to it by following Quickstart using a Linux VM.

2. Install telnet using apt-get:

   sudo apt-get install telnet
   

3. From the terminal, telnet to the IP address of the Redis instance, replacing variables with appropriate values.

   telnet instance-ip-address 6379
   

   If successful, the command will return this result:

   Trying instance-ip-address…
   Connected to instance-ip-address
   

4. In the telnet session, enter some Redis commands:

   Enter:

   PING
   

   Result:

   PONG
   

   Enter

   SET HELLO WORLD
   

   Result:

   +OK
   

   Enter:

   GET HELLO
   

   Result:

   $5
   WORLD
   

Clean up

To avoid incurring charges to your Google Cloud account for the resources used on this page, follow these steps.

To avoid incurring charges to your Google Cloud account for the resources used in this quickstart:

1. Go to the Memorystore for Redis page in the Google Cloud console.
   Memorystore for Redis
2. Click the instance ID of the instance you want to delete.
3. Click the Delete button.
4. In the prompt that appears, enter the instance ID.
5. Click Delete.

What's next

• Learn more about creating and managing instances.
• Learn about other ways to connect to your Redis instance.
• Learn about the characteristics of a Redis instance.