Hands-On Microservices with Rust

Bootstrap database for tests

Redis has an official image, redis, on Docker Hub. To create and run a container, use the following command:

docker run -it --rm --name test-redis -p 6379:6379 redis

This command runs a container from the redis image with the name test-redis, and forwards local port 6379 to the internal port 6379 of the container.

An interesting fact about Redis is that it uses a very plain and simple interaction protocol. You can even use telnet to interact with Redis:

telnet 127.0.0.1 6379Trying 127.0.0.1...Connected to 127.0.0.1.Escape character is '^]'.SET session-1 "Rust"+OKGET session-1$4Rust^]

The native client is more comfortable to use, but it expects the same commands as the raw protocol.

To shut down a container running ...