An easy and dirty way to flush a specific or all Redis database(s), using docker. This is the main purpose, based on our needs, of the docker image built from this repository. Also it provides all functionality of redis-cli, by adjusting the command line arguments ([CMD]), or by passing them manually.
Quick reference of redis-cli commands:
$ redis-cli --help
Usage: redis-cli [OPTIONS] [cmd [arg [arg ...]]]
-h <hostname> Server hostname (default: 127.0.0.1).
-p <port> Server port (default: 6379).
-s <socket> Server socket (overrides hostname and port).
-a <password> Password to use when connecting to the server.
-r <repeat> Execute specified command N times.
-i <interval> When -r is used, waits <interval> seconds per command.
It is possible to specify sub-second times like -i 0.1.
-n <db> Database number.
-x Read last argument from STDIN.
-d <delimiter> Multi-bulk delimiter in for raw formatting (default: \n).
-c Enable cluster mode (follow -ASK and -MOVED redirections).
--raw Use raw formatting for replies (default when STDOUT is
not a tty).
--no-raw Force formatted output even when STDOUT is not a tty.
--csv Output in CSV format.
--stat Print rolling stats about server: mem, clients, ...
--latency Enter a special mode continuously sampling latency.
--latency-history Like --latency but tracking latency changes over time.
Default time interval is 15 sec. Change it using -i.
--latency-dist Shows latency as a spectrum, requires xterm 256 colors.
Default time interval is 1 sec. Change it using -i.
--lru-test <keys> Simulate a cache workload with an 80-20 distribution.
--slave Simulate a slave showing commands received from the master.
--rdb <filename> Transfer an RDB dump from remote server to local file.
--pipe Transfer raw Redis protocol from stdin to server.
--pipe-timeout <n> In --pipe mode, abort with error if after sending all data.
no reply is received within <n> seconds.
Default timeout: 30. Use 0 to wait forever.
--bigkeys Sample Redis keys looking for big keys.
--scan List all keys using the SCAN command.
--pattern <pat> Useful with --scan to specify a SCAN pattern.
--intrinsic-latency <sec> Run a test to measure intrinsic system latency.
The test will run for the specified amount of seconds.
--eval <file> Send an EVAL command using the Lua script at <file>.
--ldb Used with --eval enable the Redis Lua debugger.
--ldb-sync-mode Like --ldb but uses the synchronous Lua debugger, in
this mode the server is blocked and script changes are
are not rolled back from the server memory.
--help Output this help and exit.
--version Output version and exit.
Examples:
cat /etc/passwd | redis-cli -x set mypasswd
redis-cli get mypasswd
redis-cli -r 100 lpush mylist x
redis-cli -r 100 -i 1 info | grep used_memory_human:
redis-cli --eval myscript.lua key1 key2 , arg1 arg2 arg3
redis-cli --scan --pattern '*:12345*'
(Note: when using --eval the comma separates KEYS[] from ARGV[] items)
When no command is given, redis-cli starts in interactive mode.
Type "help" in interactive mode for information on available commands
and settings.
Do it yourself way:
Clone this repo and build it:
$ git clone https://github.com/pocket-playlab/redis-flusher.git
$ cd redis-flusher/
$ docker build -t redis-flusher .
Optional: before building the docker image, you can customize the Dockerfile by specifying parameters (arguments) to redis-cli. By default the [CMD] in the dockerfile is commented. Specifying arguments (uncommenting CMD), you will just have to run the container with no arguments:
$ docker run --rm --name flusher redis-flusher
Otherwise pass your own like so:
$ docker run --rm --name flusher redis-flusher -h localhost -n 5 flushdb
Pulling it from dockerhub:
NOTE: please specify the extra arguments to be passed to
redis-cli
$ docker run --rm --name flusher pocketplaylab/redis-flusher -h localhost -n 5 flushdb