Memorystore

Quick start

$ localgcp up --services=memorystore

Connecting

Use a standard Redis connection. Any Redis client works:

$ redis-cli -h localhost -p 6379

Go example

Connect with github.com/redis/go-redis/v9:

package main

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "log"

    "github.com/redis/go-redis/v9"
)

func main() {
    ctx := context.Background()

    rdb := redis.NewClient(&redis.Options{
        Addr: "localhost:6379",
    })
    defer rdb.Close()

    // SET a key
    err := rdb.Set(ctx, "greeting", "hello from localgcp", 0).Err()
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    // GET the key
    val, err := rdb.Get(ctx, "greeting").Result()
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    fmt.Println(val) // "hello from localgcp"
}

Python example

Connect with the redis package:

import redis

r = redis.Redis(host="localhost", port=6379)

r.set("greeting", "hello from localgcp")
print(r.get("greeting"))  # b"hello from localgcp"

How it works

• Lazy TCP proxy -- localgcp listens on port 6379 and starts the Redis container on the first incoming connection
• redis:7-alpine image -- lightweight Redis 7 image pulled automatically by Docker
• No auth -- the container runs without a password, matching the zero-config local development experience

Not yet supported

• Data persistence across restarts
• AUTH / password authentication
• Redis Cluster mode