Redis Commander in Docker

This is a simple docker setup for running a redis instance in conjuction with the popular free redis admin interface Redis Commander.

DOCKERHUB

The official DockerHub repository for this project is at: https://hub.docker.com/r/dmportella/redis-commander/

Running this solution

This quite simple to run all commands are detailed below.

1. Clone this repository anywhere in your system.

Redis

Firstly this setup uses a default and the official setup of redis from docker hub to install redis with a custom setup please visit redis web site.

1. Pull the redis image.

$ docker pull redis

2. Run the newly installed image.

$ docker run --name redis -p "6379:6379" -d redis:latest

Commander

1. Build the redis commander dockerfile this command will create an image with the name commander and tag latest.

$ docker build -t commander:latest .

2. Run the docker instance from the create image this command will create an container with the name commander linked the redis container and it will expose the application on 127.0.0.1:8080.

$ docker run --name commander --link redis:redis -p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 -d commander:latest

Credentials

The default credentials are detailed below however if you want to change them you can pass pass in the following environment variables on the docker run command. See docker help docs for details about overridding environment variables on the run command.

COMMANDER_USER and COMMANDER_USER_PWD.

Default values

URL: http://localhost:8080

User name: guest

Password: guest

Addition helpful commands

see below a list of useful commands.

Bash into the container

$ docker exec -it commander bash

Stop and delete the container and image

$ docker stop commander && docker rm commander && docker rmi commander