Use Redis for default cache

Last update: 2023-05-09
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Commerce provides command-line options to configure the Redis page and default caching. Although you can configure caching by editing the <Commerce-install-dir>app/etc/env.php file, using the command line is the recommended method, especially for initial configurations. The command line provides validation, ensuring the configuration is syntactically correct.

You must install Redis before continuing.

Configure Redis default caching

Run the setup:config:set command and specify parameters that specific to Redis default caching.

bin/magento setup:config:set --cache-backend=redis --cache-backend-redis-<parameter>=<value>...

With the following parameters:

  • --cache-backend=redis enables the Redis default caching. If this feature has already been enabled, omit this parameter.

  • --cache-backend-redis-<parameter>=<value> is a list of key-and-value pairs that configure the default caching:

Command-line parameter Value Meaning Default value
cache-backend-redis-server server Fully qualified hostname, IP address, or an absolute path to a UNIX socket. The default value of 127.0.0.1 indicates Redis is installed on the Commerce server. 127.0.0.1
cache-backend-redis-port port Redis server listen port 6379
cache-backend-redis-db database Required if you use Redis for both the default and full-page cache. You must specify the database number of one of the caches; the other cache uses 0 by default.

Important: If you use Redis for more than one type of caching, the database numbers must be different. It is recommended that you assign the default caching database number to 0, the page-caching database number to 1, and the session storage database number to 2.		 0
cache-backend-redis-password password Configuring a Redis password enables one of its built-in security features: the auth command, which requires clients to authenticate to access the database. The password is configured directly in Redis’ configuration file: /etc/redis/redis.conf

Example command

The following example enables Redis default caching, sets the host to 127.0.0.1, and assigns the database number to 0. Redis uses default values for all other parameters.

bin/magento setup:config:set --cache-backend=redis --cache-backend-redis-server=127.0.0.1 --cache-backend-redis-db=0

Configure Redis page caching

To configure Redis page caching on Commerce, run the setup:config:set command with additional parameters.

bin/magento setup:config:set --page-cache=redis --page-cache-redis-<parameter>=<value>...

With the following parameters:

  • --page-cache=redis enables Redis page caching. If this feature has already been enabled, omit this parameter.

  • --page-cache-redis-<parameter>=<value> is a list of key-and-value pairs that configure page caching:

Command-line parameter Value Meaning Default value
page-cache-redis-server server Fully qualified hostname, IP address, or an absolute path to a UNIX socket. The default value of 127.0.0.1 indicates Redis is installed on the Commerce server. 127.0.0.1
page-cache-redis-port port Redis server listen port 6379
page-cache-redis-db database Required if you use Redis for both the default and full page cache. You must specify the database number of one of the caches; the other cache uses 0 by default.
Important: If you use Redis for more than one type of caching, the database numbers must be different. It is recommended that you assign the default caching database number to 0, the page-caching database number to 1, and the session storage database number to 2.		 0
page-cache-redis-password password Configuring a Redis password enables one of its built-in security features: the auth command, which requires clients to authenticate to access the database. Configure the password within the Redis configuration file: /etc/redis/redis.conf

Example command

The following example enables Redis page caching, sets the host to 127.0.0.1, and assigns the database number to 1. All other parameters are set to the default value.

bin/magento setup:config:set --page-cache=redis --page-cache-redis-server=127.0.0.1 --page-cache-redis-db=1

Results

As a result of the two example commands, Commerce adds lines similar to the following to <Commerce-install-dir>app/etc/env.php:

'cache' => [
    'frontend' => [
        'default' => [
            'backend' => 'Magento\\Framework\\Cache\\Backend\\Redis',
            'backend_options' => [
                'server' => '127.0.0.1',
                'database' => '0',
                'port' => '6379'
            ],
        ],
        'page_cache' => [
            'backend' => 'Magento\\Framework\\Cache\\Backend\\Redis',
            'backend_options' => [
                'server' => '127.0.0.1',
                'port' => '6379',
                'database' => '1',
                'compress_data' => '0'
            ]
        ]
    ]
],

Using AWS ElastiCache with your EC2 instance

As of Commerce 2.4.3, instances hosted on Amazon EC2 may use an AWS ElastiCache in place of a local Redis instance.

WARNING

This section only works for Commerce instances running on Amazon EC2 VPCs. It does not work for on-premises installations.

Configure a Redis cluster

After setting up a Redis cluster on AWS, configure the EC2 instance to use the ElastiCache.

  1. Create an ElastiCache Cluster in the same region and VPC of the EC2 instance.

  2. Verify the connection.

    • Open an SSH connection to your EC2 instance

    • On the EC2 instance, install the Redis client:

      sudo apt-get install redis

    • Add an inbound rule to the EC2 security group: Type - Custom TCP, port - 6379, Source - 0.0.0.0/0

    • Add an inbound rule to the ElastiCache Cluster security group: Type - Custom TCP, port - 6379, Source - 0.0.0.0/0

    • Connect to the Redis CLI:

      redis-cli -h <ElastiCache Primary Endpoint host> -p <ElastiCache Primary Endpoint port>

Configure Commerce to use the cluster

Commerce supports multiple types of caching configurations. Generally, the caching configurations are split between frontend and backend. Frontend caching is classified as default, used for any cache type. You can customize or split into lower-level caches to achieve better performance. A common Redis configuration is separating the default cache and page cache into their own Redis Database (RDB).

Run setup commands to specify the Redis endpoints.

To configure Commerce for Redis as default caching:

bin/magento setup:config:set --cache-backend=redis --cache-backend-redis-server=<ElastiCache Primary Endpoint host> --cache-backend-redis-port=<ElastiCache Primary Endpoint port> --cache-backend-redis-db=0

To configure Commerce for Redis page caching:

bin/magento setup:config:set --page-cache=redis --page-cache-redis-server=<ElastiCache Primary Endpoint host> --page-cache-redis-port=<ElastiCache Primary Endpoint port> --page-cache-redis-db=1

To configure Commerce to use Redis for session storage:

bin/magento setup:config:set --session-save=redis --session-save-redis-host=<ElastiCache Primary Endpoint host> --session-save-redis-port=<ElastiCache Primary Endpoint port> --session-save-redis-log-level=4 --session-save-redis-db=2

Verify connectivity

To verify that Commerce is talking to ElastiCache:

  1. Open an SSH connection to the Commerce EC2 instance.

  2. Start the Redis monitor.

    redis-cli -h <ElastiCache-Primary-Endpoint-host> -p <ElastiCache-Primary-Endpoint-port> monitor

  3. Open a page in the Commerce UI.

  4. Verify the cache output in your terminal.

New Redis cache implementation

As of Commerce 2.3.5, it is recommended to use the extended Redis cache implementation: \Magento\Framework\Cache\Backend\Redis.

'cache' => [
    'frontend' => [
        'default' => [
            'backend' => '\\Magento\\Framework\\Cache\\Backend\\Redis',
            'backend_options' => [
                'server' => '127.0.0.1',
                'database' => '0',
                'port' => '6379'
            ],
        ],
],

Redis preload feature

Since Commerce stores configuration data in the Redis cache, we can preload data that is reused between pages. To find keys that must be preloaded, analyze data that is transferred from Redis to Commerce. We suggest preloading data that is loaded on every page, such as SYSTEM_DEFAULT, EAV_ENTITY_TYPES, DB_IS_UP_TO_DATE.

Redis uses the pipeline in order to composite load requests. Keys should include the database prefix; for example, if database prefix is 061_, preload key looks like: 061_SYSTEM_DEFAULT

'cache' => [
    'frontend' => [
        'default' => [
            'id_prefix' => '061_',
            'backend' => 'Magento\\Framework\\Cache\\Backend\\Redis',
            'backend_options' => [
                'server' => 'redis',
                'database' => '0',
                'port' => '6379',
                'password' => '',
                'compress_data' => '1',
                'compression_lib' => '',
                'preload_keys' => [
                    '061_EAV_ENTITY_TYPES',
                    '061_GLOBAL_PLUGIN_LIST',
                    '061_DB_IS_UP_TO_DATE',
                    '061_SYSTEM_DEFAULT',
                ],
            ]
        ],
        'page_cache' => [
            'id_prefix' => '061_'
        ]
    ]
]

In case you are using the preload feature with the L2 cache, do not forget to add the :hash suffix to your keys, since L2 cache only transfers the hash of the data, not the data itself:

'preload_keys' => [
    '061_EAV_ENTITY_TYPES:hash',
    '061_GLOBAL_PLUGIN_LIST:hash',
    '061_DB_IS_UP_TO_DATE:hash',
    '061_SYSTEM_DEFAULT:hash',
],

Parallel generation

Starting with the 2.4.0 release, we introduced the allow_parallel_generation option for the users that want to eliminate waitings for locks.
It is disabled by default, and we recommend disabling it until you have excessive configurations and/or blocks.

To enable parallel generation:

bin/magento setup:config:set --allow-parallel-generation

Since it is a flag, you cannot disable it with a command. You must manually set the configuration value to false:

    'cache' => [
        'frontend' => [
            'default' => [
                'id_prefix' => 'b0b_',
                'backend' => 'Magento\\Framework\\Cache\\Backend\\Redis',
                'backend_options' => [
                    'server' => 'redis',
                    'database' => '0',
                    'port' => '6379',
                    'password' => '',
                    'compress_data' => '1',
                    'compression_lib' => ''
                ]
            ],
            'page_cache' => [
                'id_prefix' => 'b0b_'
            ]
        ],
        'allow_parallel_generation' => false
    ],

Verify Redis connection

To verify that Redis and Commerce are working together, log in to the server running Redis, open a terminal, and use the Redis monitor command or the ping command.

Redis monitor command

redis-cli monitor

Sample page-caching output:

1476826133.810090 [0 127.0.0.1:52366] "select" "1"
1476826133.816293 [0 127.0.0.1:52367] "select" "0"
1476826133.817461 [0 127.0.0.1:52367] "hget" "zc:k:ea6_GLOBAL__DICONFIG" "d"
1476826133.829666 [0 127.0.0.1:52367] "hget" "zc:k:ea6_DICONFIG049005964B465901F774DB9751971818" "d"
1476826133.837854 [0 127.0.0.1:52367] "hget" "zc:k:ea6_INTERCEPTION" "d"
1476826133.868374 [0 127.0.0.1:52368] "select" "1"
1476826133.869011 [0 127.0.0.1:52369] "select" "0"
1476826133.869601 [0 127.0.0.1:52369] "hget" "zc:k:ea6_DEFAULT_CONFIG_CACHE_DEFAULT__10__235__32__1080MAGENTO2" "d"
1476826133.872317 [0 127.0.0.1:52369] "hget" "zc:k:ea6_INITIAL_CONFIG" "d"
1476826133.879267 [0 127.0.0.1:52369] "hget" "zc:k:ea6_GLOBAL_PRIMARY_PLUGIN_LIST" "d"
1476826133.883312 [0 127.0.0.1:52369] "hget" "zc:k:ea6_GLOBAL__EVENT_CONFIG_CACHE" "d"
1476826133.898431 [0 127.0.0.1:52369] "hget" "zc:k:ea6_DB_PDO_MYSQL_DDL_STAGING_UPDATE_1" "d"
1476826133.898794 [0 127.0.0.1:52369] "hget" "zc:k:ea6_RESOLVED_STORES_D1BEFA03C79CA0B84ECC488DEA96BC68" "d"
1476826133.905738 [0 127.0.0.1:52369] "hget" "zc:k:ea6_DEFAULT_CONFIG_CACHE_STORE_DEFAULT_10__235__32__1080MAGENTO2" "d"

... more ...

1476826210.634998 [0 127.0.0.1:52439] "hmset" "zc:k:ea6_MVIEW_CONFIG" "d" "a:18:{s:19:\"design_config_dummy\";a:4:{s:7:\"view_id\";s:19:\"design_config_dummy\";s:12:\"action_class\";s:39:\"Magento\\Theme\\Model\\Indexer\\Mview\\Dummy\";s:5:\"group\";s:7:\"indexer\";s:13:\"subscriptions\";a:0:{}}s:14:\"customer_dummy\";a:4:{s:7:\"view_id\";s:14:\"customer_dummy\";s:12:\"action_class\";s:42:\"Magento\\Customer\\Model\\Indexer\\Mview\\Dummy\";s:5:\"group\";s:7:\"indexer\";s:13:\"subscriptions\";a:0:{}}s:13:\"cms_page_grid\";a:4:{s:7:\"view_id\";s:13:\"cms_page_grid\";s:12:\"action_class\";s:43:\"Magento\\Catalog\\Model\\Indexer\\Category\\Flat\";s:5:\"group\";s:7:\"indexer\";s:13:\"subscriptions\";a:1:{s:8:\"cms_page\";a:3:{s:4:\"name\";s:8:\"cms_page\";s:6:\"column\";s:7:\"page_id\";s:18:\"subscription_model\";N;}}}s:21:\"catalog_category_flat\";a:4:{s:7:\"view_id\";s:21:\"catalog_category_flat\";s:12:\"action_class\";s:43:\"Magento\\Catalog\\Model\\Indexer\\Category\\Flat\";s:5:\"group\";s:7:\"indexer\";s:13:\"subscriptions\";a:6:{s:23:\"catalog_category_entity\";a:3:{s:4:\"name\";s:23:\"catalog_category_entity\";s:6:\"column\";s:9:\"entity_id\";s:18:\"subscription_model\";N;}s:31:\"catalog_category_entity_decimal\";a:3:{s:4:\"name\";s:31:\"catalog_category_entity_decimal\";s:6:\"column\";s:9:\"entity_id\";s:18:\"subscription_model\";s:71:\"Magento\\CatalogStaging\\Model\\Mview\\View\\Category\\Attribute\\Subscription\";}s:27:\"catalog_category_entity_int\";a:3:{s:4:\"name\";s:27:\"catalog_category_entity_int\";s:6:\"column\";s:9:\"entity_id\";s:18:\"subscription_model\";s:71:\"Magento\\CatalogStaging\\Model\\Mview\\View\\Category\\Attribute\\Subscription\";}s:28:\"catalog_category_entity_text\";a:3:{s:4:\"name\";s:28:\"catalog_category_entity_text\";s:6:\"column\";s:9:\"entity_id\";s:18:\"subscription_model\";s:71:\"Magento\\CatalogStaging\\Model\\Mview\\View\\Category\\Attribute\\Subscription\";}s:31:\"catalog_category_entity_varchar\";a:3:{s:4:\"name\";s:31:\"catalog_category_entity_varchar\";s:6:\"column\";s:9:\"entity_id\";s:18:\"subscription_model\";s:71:\"Magento\\CatalogStaging\\Model\\Mview\\View\\Category\\Attribute\\Subscription\";}s:32:\"catalog_category_entity_datetime\";a:3:{s:4:\"name\";s:32:\"catalog_category_entity_datetime\";s:6:\"column\";s:9:\"entity_id\";s:18:\"subscription_model\";s:71:\"Magento\\CatalogStaging\\Model\\Mview\\View\\Category\\Attribute\\Subscription\";}}}s:24:\"catalog_category_product\";a:4:{s:7:\"view_id\";s:24:\"catalog_category_product\";s:12:\"action_class\";s:46:\"Magento\\Catalog\\Model\\Indexer\\Category\\Product\";s:5:\"group\";s:7:\"indexer\";s:13:\"subscriptions\";a:2:{s:23:\"catalog_category_entity\";a:3:{s:4:\"name\";s:23:\"catalog_category_entity\";s:6:\"column\"

... more ...

Redis ping command

redis-cli ping

The expected response is: PONG

If both commands succeeded, Redis is set up properly.

Inspecting compressed data

To inspect compressed Session data and Page Cache, the RESP.app supports the automatic decompression of Commerce 2 Session and Page cache and displays PHP session data in a human-readable form.

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