Redis Stack deployment types

We have completed an overview of Redis Stack and its key differentiators from the Redis server. In the next chapters, we will dive into the many use cases that can be solved and will discuss lots of examples and code snippets. For the time being, you can start planning your next Redis Stack-based modern application and think about the platform that will host the data store.

Redis Stack is available on all main operating systems (Linux, Mac, Windows) in binary format. It is also available as a Docker image, so you can start it right now by launching a container on your machine as follows:

docker run -d --name redis-stack-server -p 6379:6379 redis/redis-stack-server:latest

Redis Stack is free, and you can install, manage, and deploy it in production without any license fee. It’s Redis, after all. You can also install RedisInsight and connect it to Redis Stack Server to see how easy is to bring your data under control.

If you don’t want to install Redis Stack, you can also create a free Redis Cloud account at https://redis.com/try-free/. You can get a 30 MB forever-free database and a public endpoint to use it from your laptop. No VPN is needed, and no certificate setup is required. You can choose where to create your free instance, for example on Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure.

Be prepared, because if you haven’t already thought, “I didn’t know that Redis could do this,” we will surprise you with the many things you will be able to do, for free, with Redis Stack!