How to Deploy Quarkus on Platform.sh with Redis

To activate Redis and then have it accessed by the Quarkus application already in Platform.sh, it is necessary to modify two files.

1. Add the Redis service

In your service configuration, include Persistent Redis with a valid supported version:

data:
    type: redis-persistent:7.2
    disk: 256

2. Add the Redis relationship

In your app configuration, use the service name searchelastic to grant the application access to Elasticsearch via a relationship:

relationships:
    redisdata: "data:redis"

3. Export connection credentials to the environment

Connection credentials for Redis, like any service, are exposed to the application container through the PLATFORM_RELATIONSHIPS environment variable from the deploy hook onward. Since this variable is a base64 encoded JSON object of all of your project’s services, you’ll likely want a clean way to extract the information specific to Elasticsearch into it’s own environment variables that can be used by Quarkus. On Platform.sh, custom environment variables can be defined programmatically in a .environment file using jq to do just that:

export REDIS_HOST=$(echo $PLATFORM_RELATIONSHIPS | base64 --decode | jq -r ".redisdata[0].host")
export REDIS_PORT=$(echo $PLATFORM_RELATIONSHIPS | base64 --decode | jq -r ".redisdata[0].port")
export QUARKUS_REDIS_HOSTS=redis://${REDIS_HOST}:${REDIS_PORT}
export QUARKUS_HTTP_PORT=$PORT
export JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx$(jq .info.limits.memory /run/config.json)m -XX:+ExitOnOutOfMemoryError"

4. Connect to Redis

Commit that code and push. The Redis instance is ready to be connected from within the Quarkus application.