actions-setup-redis

This action sets by redis/valkey database for use in actions by:

• optionally downloading and caching a version of redis
• start redis-server

Motivation

• GitHub Actions supports Docker services, and there is the official redis image. but it works on only Linux.
• Some test utils for redis (such as Test::RedisServer) requires redis-server installed on the local host.

Usage

See action.yml

Basic:

steps:
  - uses: actions/checkout@v4
  - uses: shogo82148/actions-setup-redis@v1
    with:
      redis-version: "7.x"
  - run: redis-cli ping

Matrix Testing:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    strategy:
      matrix:
        os:
          - "ubuntu-latest"
          - "macOS-latest"
        # - 'windows-latest' # windows is currently not supported.
        redis:
          - "7.2"
          - "7.0"
          - "6.2"
          - "6.0"
          - "5.0"
          - "4.0"
    name: Redis ${{ matrix.redis }} on ${{ matrix.os }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Setup redis
        uses: shogo82148/actions-setup-redis@v1
        with:
          redis-version: ${{ matrix.redis }}
          auto-start: "false"

      - name: tests with Test::RedisServer
        run: |
          cpanm Test::RedisServer
          prove -lv t

Configuration

distribution

The distribution. The valid values are redis or valkey. The default value is redis. You can use redis- and valkey- prefixes in redis-version instead of the distribution input. For example, the following two workflows install Valkey 7.2.

- uses: shogo82148/actions-setup-redis@v1
  with:
    distribution: "valkey"
    redis-version: "7.2"

- uses: shogo82148/actions-setup-redis@v1
  with:
    redis-version: "valkey-7.2"

redis-version

The version of Redis. The redis-version input supports the following syntax:

• latest: the latest version of stable Redis
• 7, 6, 5, 4: major versions
• 7.2, 7.0: minor versions
• 7.2.0, 7.2.1: patch versions

The default value is latest. The actions supports only stable versions.

redis-port

The port number that redis-server listens. The default value is 6379.

redis-tls-port

The port number that redis-server listens TLS connections. The default value is 0 and TLS is disabled.

auto-start

If the auto-start is true, the action starts redis-server as a daemon. If it is false, the action just install Redis commands, doesn't start redis-server. It is a boolean value, valid values are true or false. The default value is true.

redis-conf

Extra configurations for redis.conf. See Redis configuration.

Outputs

redis-port

The port number that redis-server listens.

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - id: setup
        uses: shogo82148/actions-setup-redis@v1

      # connect to the redis-server via TCP
      - run: |
          redis-cli -h 127.0.0.1 -p ${{ steps.setup.outputs.redis-port }} ping

redis-unix-socket

The unix domain socket path that redis-server listens.

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - id: setup
        uses: shogo82148/actions-setup-redis@v1

      # connect to the redis-server via unix domain socket
      - run: |
          redis-cli -s ${{ steps.setup.outputs.redis-unix-socket }} ping

redis-tls-port

The port number that redis-server listens TLS connections.

redis-tls-dir

The directory path for TLS sample certificates/keys.

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - id: setup
        uses: shogo82148/actions-setup-redis@v1
        with:
          # TLS Support starts from v6.0.
          redis-version: "6.0"

          # TLS is disabled by default. You need extra configurations.
          redis-port: "0"
          redis-tls-port: "6379"

      # connect to the redis-server via TLS
      - run: |
          redis-cli -h 127.0.0.1 -p "${{ steps.setup.outputs.redis-tls-port }}" \
            --tls \
            --cert "${{ steps.setup.outputs.redis-tls-dir }}/redis.crt" \
            --key "${{ steps.setup.outputs.redis-tls-dir }}/redis.key" \
            --cacert "${{ steps.setup.outputs.redis-tls-dir }}/ca.crt" \
            ping

See TLS Support for more details.

redis-path

The absolute path to the redis-server, redis-cli, etc.

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License