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Redis Streams

Detailed documentation on the Redis Streams pubsub component

Component format

To setup Redis Streams pubsub create a component of type pubsub.redis. See this guide on how to create and apply a pubsub configuration.

apiVersion: dapr.io/v1alpha1
kind: Component
metadata:
  name: redis-pubsub
spec:
  type: pubsub.redis
  version: v1
  metadata:
  - name: redisHost
    value: localhost:6379
  - name: redisPassword
    value: "KeFg23!"
  - name: consumerID
    value: "myGroup"
  - name: enableTLS
    value: "false"

Spec metadata fields

Field Required Details Example
redisHost Y Connection-string for the redis host. If "redisType" is "cluster" it can be multiple hosts separated by commas or just a single host localhost:6379, redis-master.default.svc.cluster.local:6379
redisPassword Y Password for Redis host. No Default. Can be secretKeyRef to use a secret reference "", "KeFg23!"
redisUsername N Username for Redis host. Defaults to empty. Make sure your redis server version is 6 or above, and have created acl rule correctly. "", "default"
consumerID N The consumer group ID "myGroup"
enableTLS N If the Redis instance supports TLS with public certificates, can be configured to be enabled or disabled. Defaults to "false" "true", "false"
redeliverInterval N The interval between checking for pending messages to redelivery. Defaults to "60s". "0" disables redelivery. "30s"
processingTimeout N The amount time a message must be pending before attempting to redeliver it. Defaults to "15s". "0" disables redelivery. "30s"
queueDepth N The size of the message queue for processing. Defaults to "100". "1000"
concurrency N The number of concurrent workers that are processing messages. Defaults to "10". "15"
redisType N The type of redis. There are two valid values, one is "node" for single node mode, the other is "cluster" for redis cluster mode. Defaults to "node". "cluster"
redisDB N Database selected after connecting to redis. If "redisType" is "cluster" this option is ignored. Defaults to "0". "0"
redisMaxRetries N Maximum number of times to retry commands before giving up. Default is to not retry failed commands. "5"
redisMinRetryInterval N Minimum backoff for redis commands between each retry. Default is "8ms"; "-1" disables backoff. "8ms"
redisMaxRetryInterval N Maximum backoff for redis commands between each retry. Default is "512ms";"-1" disables backoff. "5s"
dialTimeout N Dial timeout for establishing new connections. Defaults to "5s". "5s"
readTimeout N Timeout for socket reads. If reached, redis commands will fail with a timeout instead of blocking. Defaults to "3s", "-1" for no timeout. "3s"
writeTimeout N Timeout for socket writes. If reached, redis commands will fail with a timeout instead of blocking. Defaults is readTimeout. "3s"
poolSize N Maximum number of socket connections. Default is 10 connections per every CPU as reported by runtime.NumCPU. "20"
poolTimeout N Amount of time client waits for a connection if all connections are busy before returning an error. Default is readTimeout + 1 second. "5s"
maxConnAge N Connection age at which the client retires (closes) the connection. Default is to not close aged connections. "30m"
minIdleConns N Minimum number of idle connections to keep open in order to avoid the performance degradation associated with creating new connections. Defaults to "0". "2"
idleCheckFrequency N Frequency of idle checks made by idle connections reaper. Default is "1m". "-1" disables idle connections reaper. "-1"
idleTimeout N Amount of time after which the client closes idle connections. Should be less than server’s timeout. Default is "5m". "-1" disables idle timeout check. "10m"
failover N Property to enabled failover configuration. Needs sentinalMasterName to be set. Defaults to "false" "true", "false"
sentinelMasterName N The sentinel master name. See Redis Sentinel Documentation "", "127.0.0.1:6379"
maxLenApprox N Maximum number of items inside a stream.The old entries are automatically evicted when the specified length is reached, so that the stream is left at a constant size. Defaults to unlimited. "10000"

Create a Redis instance

Dapr can use any Redis instance - containerized, running on your local dev machine, or a managed cloud service, provided the version of Redis is 5.x or 6.x.


The Dapr CLI will automatically create and setup a Redis Streams instance for you. The Redis instance will be installed via Docker when you run dapr init, and the component file will be created in default directory. ($HOME/.dapr/components directory (Mac/Linux) or %USERPROFILE%\.dapr\components on Windows).


You can use Helm to quickly create a Redis instance in our Kubernetes cluster. This approach requires Installing Helm.

  1. Install Redis into your cluster.

    helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
helm install redis bitnami/redis --set image.tag=6.2

  2. Run kubectl get pods to see the Redis containers now running in your cluster.

  3. Add redis-master:6379 as the redisHost in your redis.yaml file. For example:

        metadata:
    - name: redisHost
      value: redis-master:6379

  4. Next, we’ll get our Redis password, which is slightly different depending on the OS we’re using:

    • Windows: Run kubectl get secret --namespace default redis -o jsonpath="{.data.redis-password}" > encoded.b64, which will create a file with your encoded password. Next, run certutil -decode encoded.b64 password.txt, which will put your redis password in a text file called password.txt. Copy the password and delete the two files.

    • Linux/MacOS: Run kubectl get secret --namespace default redis -o jsonpath="{.data.redis-password}" | base64 --decode and copy the outputted password.

    Add this password as the redisPassword value in your redis.yaml file. For example:

        - name: redisPassword
      value: "lhDOkwTlp0"

Last modified August 11, 2022: redis 6 update (#2718) (08f2cf27)