Redis supports different operating system and Linux distributions. We will look how to install and start redis in Linux distributions Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS and RedHat in this tutorial.

Install Fedora, CentOS, RedHat

We can install redis server on Fedora, CentOS and RedHat with the following yum command.

$ yum install redis -y

Install Ubuntu, Debian

We can install redis server on Fedora, CentOS and RedHat with the following apt command.

$ apt install redis-server

Redis Service Status

We can check redis service status with the systemctl status command. The service name of redis in Fedora,CentOS and RedHat is redis in Ubuntu and Debian redis-server

Fedora, CentOS, RedHat

$ systemctl status redis

Ubuntu, Debian

$ systemctl status redis-server

Start Service

We can start redis service with the systemctl start command like below.

Fedora, CentOS, RedHat

$ systemctl status redis

Ubuntu, Debian

$ systemctl status redis-server

Check Redis Cli

By default redis service listen for port TCP 6379 . We can also connect to redis service with the redis-cli tool. Following command will try to connect local redis service with IP address 127.0.0.1

$ redis-cli