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Caching - Configure an Instance to Accept Incoming Connections

Stephanie R.
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Learn how to configure your Caching instance to accept incoming connections.

Managed Databases (also called Cloud Databases) allow you to focus on building and deploying cloud applications while OVHcloud takes care of the database infrastructure and maintenance in operational conditions.

 

Requirements

 

Instructions

Configure your Caching instance to accept incoming connections

Before making a connection, we need to verify that our Caching instance is correctly configured.

Log in to your OVHcloud Control Panel and open your Public Cloud project. In the left-hand navigation menu, under Databases & Analytics, click on Databases and select your instance.

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Step 1: Verify your user roles and password

Select the Users tab. Verify that you have a user with sufficient rights and a password. If you don't remember the user's password, you can either create a new user or regenerate the password of an existing user. Be careful! By doing so you will need to update all the places where you already use this user/password pair.

In our example, we will create a user called redisUser and rights for:

  • Keys:
    * (for all keys)
  • Commands:
    +ping (for the ping command)
    +info (for the info command)
    +echo (for the echo command)
    +get (for the get command)
    +set (for the set command)
    +client (for the client command)
  • Channels:
    * (for all channels)

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Once created or updated, the user has to be ready and with the "Enabled" status in the Control Panel.

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Follow the Commands Official Documentation to learn more.
Follow this guide to learn more about users and roles capabilities and limitations.

 

Step 2: Authorize incoming connections from the service

NOTE: For security reasons, the default network configuration doesn't allow any incoming connections. You must authorize suitable IP addresses to successfully access your database.

In this step, select the Authorised IPs tab. IP addresses must be authorized here before they can connect to your database.

Clicking on Add an IP address or IP address block (CIDR) opens a new window in which you can add single IP addresses or blocks to allow access to the database.

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You can edit and retract database access via the ... button in the IP table.

If you want to allow connections from the outside, you can enter the IP 0.0.0.0/0. Please use it carefully.

 

Collect required information

Select the General information tab to find the required login credentials in the Login information section.

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Go further

Visit the GitHub examples repository to find out how to connect to your database with several languages.

For more information and tutorials, please see our other Cloud Databases support guides or explore the guides for other OVHcloud products and services.

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