# Valkey

Generated on 9 Oct 2025 from [the Valkey catalog page](https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/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

*This Marketplace listing does not include a detailed software list.*

## 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.

[![Deploy to DO](https://www.deploytodo.com/do-btn-blue.svg)](https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets/new?image=sharklabs-valkey)

## 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](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/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](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/create-personal-access-token/index.html.md) to an environment variable or substitute it in the command below.

```shell
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](https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/valkey)

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