How To Install and Secure Redis on Ubuntu 18.04

Introduction

Redis is an in-memory key-value store known for its flexibility, performance, and wide language support. This tutorial demonstrates how to install, configure, and secure Redis on an Ubuntu 18.04 server.

Prerequisites

To complete this guide, you will need access to an Ubuntu 18.04 server that has a non-root user with sudo privileges and a basic firewall configured. You can set this up by following our Initial Server Setup guide.

Step 1 — Installing and Configuring Redis

In order to get the latest version of Redis, we will use apt to install it from the official Ubuntu repositories.
First, update your local apt package cache if you haven’t done so recently:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install redis-server

This will download and install Redis and its dependencies. Following this, there is one important configuration change to make in the Redis configuration file, which was generated automatically during the installation.
Open this file with your preferred text editor:

$ sudo vim /etc/redis/redis.conf

Inside the file, find the supervised directive. This directive allows you to declare an init system to manage Redis as a service, providing you with more control over its operation. The supervised directive is set to no by default. Since you are running Ubuntu, which uses the systemd init system, change this to systemd:

. . .
# If you run Redis from upstart or systemd, Redis can interact with your
# supervision tree. Options:
#   supervised no      - no supervision interaction
#   supervised upstart - signal upstart by putting Redis into SIGSTOP mode
#   supervised systemd - signal systemd by writing READY=1 to $NOTIFY_SOCKET
#   supervised auto    - detect upstart or systemd method based on
#                        UPSTART_JOB or NOTIFY_SOCKET environment variables
# Note: these supervision methods only signal "process is ready."
#       They do not enable continuous liveness pings back to your supervisor.
supervised systemd
. . .

That’s the only change you need to make to the Redis configuration file at this point, so save and close it when you are finished. Then, restart the Redis service to reflect the changes you made to the configuration file:

$ sudo systemctl restart redis.service

Step 2 — Testing Redis

As with any newly-installed software, it’s a good idea to ensure that Redis is functioning as expected before making any further changes to its configuration. We will go over a handful of ways to check that Redis is working correctly in this step.
Start by checking that the Redis service is running:

$ sudo systemctl status redis

If it is running without any errors, this command will produce output similar to the following:

Output
● redis-server.service - Advanced key-value store
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/redis-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-06-27 18:48:52 UTC; 12s ago
     Docs: http://redis.io/documentation,
           man:redis-server(1)
  Process: 2421 ExecStop=/bin/kill -s TERM $MAINPID (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 2424 ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 2445 (redis-server)
    Tasks: 4 (limit: 4704)
   CGroup: /system.slice/redis-server.service
           └─2445 /usr/bin/redis-server 127.0.0.1:6379

Here, you can see that Redis is running and is already enabled, meaning that it is set to start up every time the server boots.

Note: This setting is desirable for many common use cases of Redis. 
If, however, you prefer to start up Redis manually every time your server boots, you can configure this with the following command:

$ sudo systemctl disable redis

to test that Redis is functioning correctly, connect to the server using the command-line client:

$ redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379 > set test "It's working!"
PONG
127.0.0.1:6379 > ping
OK
127.0.0.1:6379 > get test
"It's working!"

Reference

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-redis-on-ubuntu-18-04