Quickstart using the gcloud command-line tool

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.
If you haven't already, install the Cloud SDK.
When prompted, choose the project that you selected or created above.
If you already have the Cloud SDK installed, update it.
```
gcloud components update
```

Creating a Memorystore for Redis instance

To create a Memorystore for Redis instance:

Open a terminal window.
Set the project you'd like to create your instance in as the default project in gcloud by entering the following command:
```
gcloud config set core/project PROJECT_ID
```

Enter the following command to create a 2 GiB Basic Tier Redis instance in the us-central1 region:

gcloud redis instances create myinstance --size=2 --region=us-central1 \
    --redis-version=redis_5_0

After the instance is created, enter the describe command to get the IP address and port of the instance:

gcloud redis instances describe myinstance --region=us-central1

If successful, gcloud returns the following:

authorizedNetwork: projects/my-project/global/networks/default
createTime: '2018-04-09T21:47:56.824081Z'
currentLocationId: us-central1-a
host: 10.0.0.27
locationId: us-central1-a
memorySizeGb: 2
name: projects/my-project/locations/us-central1/instances/myinstance
networkThroughputGbps: 2
port: 6379
redisVersion: REDIS_4_0
reservedIpRange: 10.0.0.24/29
state: READY
tier: BASIC

You'll use the host and port values to connect to the instance.

Connecting to the Redis instance from a Compute Engine VM

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
```

Clean up

To avoid incurring charges to your Google Cloud account for the resources used in this quickstart, delete the instance by entering the following command:
```
gcloud redis instances delete myinstance --region=us-central1
```

Enter Y to confirm the instance to delete:

You are about to delete instance [myinstance] in [us-central1].
Any associated data will be lost.
Do you want to continue (Y/n)? Y
Delete request issued for: [myinstance]

If successful, gcloud returns the following response:

Deleted instance [myinstance].

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.