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From yesterday I'm in process of moving some of my services in new VPS which is based on latest Ubuntu LTS. Some of software that I'm using is "conterized" but not all of them. So moving to new VPS is time to fix that and Redis is first in my list. After quick research I figure out that I preffer to use Phusion base image for Redis also, instead of getting new images :) and because of that I update a little bit original Docker file to:

# Pull base image.
FROM phusion/baseimage:0.9.19

# Install Redis.
RUN \
  cd /tmp && \
  apt-get update && \
  apt-get install wget -y &&\
  apt-get install make -y && apt-get install gcc -y && \
  wget http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz && \
  tar xvzf redis-stable.tar.gz && \
  cd redis-stable && \
  make && \
  make install && \
  cp -f src/redis-sentinel /usr/local/bin && \
  mkdir -p /etc/redis && \
  cp -f *.conf /etc/redis && \
  rm -rf /tmp/redis-stable* && \
  sed -i 's/^\(bind .*\)$/# \1/' /etc/redis/redis.conf && \
  sed -i 's/^\(daemonize .*\)$/# \1/' /etc/redis/redis.conf && \
  sed -i 's/^\(dir .*\)$/# \1\ndir \/data/' /etc/redis/redis.conf && \
  sed -i 's/^\(logfile .*\)$/# \1/' /etc/redis/redis.conf

# Define mountable directories.
VOLUME ["/data"]

# Define working directory.
WORKDIR /data

# Define default command.
CMD ["redis-server", "/etc/redis/redis.conf"]
# Expose ports.
EXPOSE 6379

So we can save this in some directory in

Dockerfile

after that we can user

 docker build -t="dockerfile/redis" .

Result will something like:

root@sylvester:/tmp/tt# docker images
REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
dockerfile/redis    latest              fd12d74a4a9d        21 minutes ago      382.2 MB
phusion/baseimage   0.9.19              c39664f3d4e5        4 weeks ago         225.6 MB

That is :) we can quickly use it with something like

docker run -d --name redis -p 6379:6379 dockerfile/redis redis-server --requirepass <password>

Result will be:

root@sylvester:/tmp/tt# docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                    NAMES
7efeb6befa28        dockerfile/redis    "redis-server --requi"   11 minutes ago      Up 11 minutes       0.0.0.0:6379->6379/tcp   redis

And woala we have fully functional Redis instance.
Happy codding

Docker redis image