I am trying to connect django to docker redis container
Here is my docker file
FROM ubuntu:14.04
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y redis-server
EXPOSE 6379
ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/bin/redis-server"]
Here is the result of docker ps -a
4f7eaeb2761b /redis "/usr/bin/redis-serve" 16 hours ago Up 16 hours 6379/tcp redis
Here is a quick sanity check that redis is working inside docker container
docker exec -ti redis bash
root@4f7eaeb2761b:/# redis-cli ping
PONG
root@4f7eaeb2761b:/# redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379> exit
Here is my Django settings.py
CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'redis_cache.RedisCache',
'LOCATION': 'localhost:6379',
},
}
Here is my view
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.template import loader
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page
@cache_page(60 * 15)
def index(request):
template = loader.get_template('./index.html')
return HttpResponse(template.render())
Here is alternative redis access
import redis
def index(request):
r = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)
print r # this line doesn't cause error
r.set('foo', 'bar') # this line cause error
template = loader.get_template('./index.html')
return HttpResponse(template.render())
I verified that everything work without the @cache_page decorator
When I used decorator I am getting
Error 61 connecting to localhost:6379. Connection refused.
I am not sure how do I expose the docker container besides setting Expose port, any help would be appreciated
Thanks