How to connect to ElastiCache cluster using node.js

Zameer Ansari picture Zameer Ansari · May 9, 2017 · Viewed 13.4k times · Source

We know that ElastiCache is not recommended to be accessed outside Amazon instances, so we're trying below stuff inside Amazon EC2 instances only.

We've got a ElastiCache Redis Cluster with 9 nodes. When we try to connect to it using normal redis implementation, it throws some Moved errors

Have tried the retry strategy method as per @Miller. Have also tried RedisCluster with unstable and stable (poor man) implementations.

None of these implementations are working. Any suggestions please?

Answer

Zameer Ansari picture Zameer Ansari · May 11, 2017

Sharing the code for future readers:

var RedisClustr = require('redis-clustr');
var RedisClient = require('redis');
var config = require("./config.json");

var redis = new RedisClustr({
    servers: [
        {
            host: config.redisClusterHost,
            port: config.redisClusterPort
        }
    ],
    createClient: function (port, host) {
        // this is the default behaviour
        return RedisClient.createClient(port, host);
    }
});

//connect to redis
redis.on("connect", function () {
  console.log("connected");
});

//check the functioning
redis.set("framework", "AngularJS", function (err, reply) {
  console.log("redis.set " , reply);
});

redis.get("framework", function (err, reply) {
  console.log("redis.get ", reply);
});