Quickstart using the Console

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

Before you begin

Sign in to your Google Account.
If you don't already have one, sign up for a new account.
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 the project selector page
Make sure that billing is enabled for your Cloud project. Learn how to confirm that billing is enabled for your project.

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
Click Create Instance.
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.
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.
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.

You can connect to the Redis instance from any Compute Engine VM instance located within the same project, region and network as the Redis instance.

If you don't already have a Compute Engine VM in the same project, region, and network as your Redis instance, create one and connect to it by following Quickstart using a Linux VM.
Install telnet using apt-get:
```
sudo apt-get install telnet
```
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
```
In the telnet session, enter some Redis commands:

Enter:
```
PING
```
Result:
```
PONG
```
Enter
```
SET HELLO WORLD
```
Result:
```
+OK
```
Enter:
```
GET HELLO
```
Result:
```
$5
WORLD
```

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

Go to the Memorystore for Redis page in the Cloud Console.
Memorystore for Redis
Click the instance ID of the instance you want to delete.
Click the Delete button.
In the prompt that appears, enter the instance ID.
Click Delete.