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Getting started

You can either get started with Apache Kvrocks™ with Docker or compile a binary from source.

Run Kvrocks with Docker​

  1. Follow Docker's installation instructions to install Docker.
  2. Pull the latest image and start a container:
docker run -it -p 6666:6666 apache/kvrocks --bind 0.0.0.0

Now you can use the redis-cli to run the kvrocks server as Redis on port 6666:

redis-cli -p 6666

For persisted data, prefer using a docker volume over a bind-mounted volume to avoid file permission or performance problems. Eg:

# create docker volume once, e.g.
docker volume create kvrocks_data

docker run --volume kvrocks_data:/kvrocks_data \
  --interactive --tty --publish 6666:6666 apache/kvrocks --bind 0.0.0.0 --dir /kvrocks_data

# note: the default data dir is /var/lib/kvrocks. The above example changes the location from default to /kvrocks_data.

Tuning Docker​

Any command line switches in the the Docker CMD position are passed to the kvrocks app. For example, to change the "workers" setting from default to 16, you could include --workers 16

docker run -it --rm -p 6666:6666 apache/kvrocks --bind 0.0.0.0 --workers 16

To set an admin password, use the requirepass directive:

# assuming password exported on environment variable "KVROCKS_ADMIN_SECRET":
docker run -it --rm -p 6666:6666 apache/kvrocks --bind 0.0.0.0 --requirepass $KVROCKS_ADMIN_SECRET

# redis-cli on host looks like:
REDISCLI_AUTH=$KVROCKS_ADMIN_SECRET redis-cli -p 6666 ping

Alternatively, you might mount the entire kvrocks.conf file to the container. The default config location is /var/lib/kvrocks/kvrocks.conf. NOTE: if bind-mounting, it must be an entire directory (and so would look like ./my_conf_dir:/var/lib/kvrocks.) To change the config file location, override the Docker entrypoint. (See Dockerfile as a guideline.)

Build and run Kvrocks from source​

Install dependencies​

sudo yum install -y centos-release-scl-rh
sudo yum install -y git devtoolset-11 autoconf automake libtool libstdc++-static python3 openssl-devel
# download and install cmake via https://cmake.org/download
wget https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.26.4/cmake-3.26.4-linux-x86_64.sh -O cmake.sh
sudo bash cmake.sh --skip-license --prefix=/usr
# enable gcc and make in devtoolset-11
source /opt/rh/devtoolset-11/enable

Compile Kvrocks from source​

git clone https://github.com/apache/kvrocks.git
cd kvrocks
./x.py build # `./x.py build -h` to check more options;
             # especially, `./x.py build --ghproxy` will fetch dependencies via ghproxy.com.

The binary file kvrocks will be generated at build dir if everything goes well.

Run the Kvrocks server by:

./build/kvrocks -c kvrocks.conf

Now you can use the redis-cli to run the kvrocks server as Redis on port 6666:

redis-cli -p 6666