Redis

A managed Redis instance for caching, queues, rate limiting, and pub/sub.

Provision

lizard add redis

The first Redis addon is named redis, so ${{redis.REDIS_URL}} works immediately.

Environment variables

Connect a service

lizard secrets set REDIS_URL='${{redis.REDIS_URL}}' --service api
lizard redeploy --service api

The reference resolves at deploy time and rotates with the addon’s credentials.

Common uses

• Cache — store computed results keyed by request.
• Queue / worker — pair Redis with a worker-mode service that consumes jobs.
• Rate limiting / sessions — fast shared state across replicas.

# A worker that drains a Redis queue
lizard add -r your-org/worker -n jobs
lizard service set jobs --set containerPort=0
lizard secrets set REDIS_URL='${{redis.REDIS_URL}}' --service jobs
lizard redeploy --service jobs

Browse keys

Open the Redis browser in the dashboard (lizard open) to inspect keys and values. For local access:

lizard run --service api -- redis-cli -u "$REDIS_URL"

Grow storage

lizard scale --service redis --storage 4096