Valkey

Valkey is an open source (BSD) high-performance key/value datastore that supports a variety workloads such as caching, message queues, and can act as a primary database. Valkey can run as either a standalone daemon or in a cluster, with options for replication and high availability.

Valkey natively supports a rich collection of datatypes, including strings, numbers, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bitmaps, hyperloglogs and more. You can operate on data structures in-place with a expressive collection of commands. Valkey also supports native extensibility with built-in scripting support for LUA and supports module plugins to create new commands, data types, and more.

Software Included

Creating an App using the Control Panel

Click the Deploy to DigitalOcean button to create a Droplet based on this 1-Click App. If you aren’t logged in, this link will prompt you to log in with your DigitalOcean account.

Creating an App using the API

In addition to creating a Droplet from the Valkey 1-Click App using the control panel, you can also use the DigitalOcean API. As an example, to create a 4GB Valkey Droplet in the SFO2 region, you can use the following curl command. You need to either save your API access token) to an environment variable or substitute it in the command below.

curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
         -H 'Authorization: Bearer '$TOKEN'' -d \
        '{"name":"choose_a_name","region":"sfo2","size":"s-2vcpu-4gb","image": "sharklabs-valkey"}' \
        "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets"

Getting Started After Deploying Valkey

Valkey is a high-performance data structure server that primarily serves key/value workloads. It supports a wide range of native structures and an extensible plugin system for adding new data structures and access patterns.

Valkey is running as a systemd service and can be managed with:

• systemctl start valkey
• systemctl stop valkey
• systemctl restart valkey
• systemctl status valkey

Configuration file: /etc/valkey/valkey.conf

Log file: /var/log/valkey/valkey.log

Data directory: /var/lib/valkey

To keep this Droplet secure, the UFW firewall is enabled.

All ports are BLOCKED except:

• 22 (SSH)
• 6379

A strong password has been set for your Valkey instance, and can be found in the file: /root/.digitalocean_passwords

Valkey is bound to localhost by default for security. To change this, edit the

configuration file at /etc/valkey/valkey.conf and restart the service.

For help and more information, visit https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/valkey

Additional security recommendations can be found here: https://valkey.io/docs/management/security/acl.html