Twemproxy redis

Twemproxy is a fast and single threaded proxy. It supports multiple server pool simultaneously and maintain persistent  connections. It is lightweight and  easy to configure. 



                                                          Installation and Configuration

First I am going to install and configure two redis instances with port 6111 and 6112 then will setup them in Twemproxy.

    * Download the redis  under  /opt
       wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.6.10.tar.gz
        tar -xvzf redis-2.6.10.tar.gz 
        cd redis-2.6.10
        make
        make test

     * Now copy the config file into two files and change port to 6111 and 6112 in that
        cp redis.conf redis_6111.conf 
        cp redis.conf redis_6112.conf 
   
     * Start the two instances 
        cd src/
       ./redis-server /opt/redis-2.6.10/redis_6111.conf 
       ./redis-server /opt/redis-2.6.10/redis_6112.conf 

      

     *  Test the instances

        ./redis-cli -p 6111
        ./redis-cli -p 6112

You may need m4,automake,autoconf , download and install which is supported , You can get them from  the following links -
wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/custombuild/m4-1.4.15.tar.gz
wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/custombuild/automake-1.13.1.tar.gz
wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/custombuild/autoconf-2.68.tar.gz 

Now install the Twemproxy : 

$ git clone https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy.git
$ cd twemproxy
$ autoreconf -fvi
$ ./configure --enable-debug=log
$ make

Now edit the config file located in conf/nutcracker.yml and add the redis instances :
    
beta:
  listen: 127.0.0.1:22122
  hash: fnv1a_64
  hash_tag: "{}"
  distribution: ketama
  auto_eject_hosts: false
  timeout: 400
  redis: true
  servers:
   - 127.0.0.1:6111:1 server1
   - 127.0.0.1:6112:1 server2

Start the Redis servers:
    
$ ./redis-server --port 6111
$ ./redis-server --port 6112

Start twemproxy:
    
$ ./nutcracker -c ../conf/nutcracker.yml -v 11

Now connect to twemproxy with the redis client
    
$ ./redis-cli -p 22122
redis 127.0.0.1:22122> set mykey value
OK
redis 127.0.0.1:22122> get mykey
"value"



So This is a quick start installation guide how we setup Twemproxy redis.
Looking forward your comments and suggestions , Thanks  !