Separate Redis Store in Laravel

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Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets.

In this article, I will show how to separate the Redis configuration for cache, session and queue. Why separate? For me, its :-

• Easier in terms of application debugging
• Less data losses
• More application control in-memory storage
• Multiple connections
• Best production oriented configuration.

Laravel have out-of-the-box Redis configuration which give you freedom to assign your connection and storage for your application.

Here is the default connection configuration in database.php

'redis' => [

    'client' => env('REDIS_CLIENT', 'phpredis'),

    'default' => [
        'host' => env('REDIS_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
        'password' => env('REDIS_PASSWORD', null),
        'port' => env('REDIS_PORT', 6379),
        'database' => env('REDIS_DB', 0),
    ],

    'cache' => [
        'host' => env('REDIS_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
        'password' => env('REDIS_PASSWORD', null),
        'port' => env('REDIS_PORT', 6379),
        'database' => env('REDIS_CACHE_DB', 1),
    ],
],