Setting Up Lumen with Redis

Nov 19, 2017

This is more of an extension of my previous post “Setting Up Lumen + Mail”. I wanted to take it a step further and show the basic setup for getting Redis to work, so you can queue not only mail, but jobs.

First, run composer require illuminate/redis:5.5 to grab the Redis components.

Next, open app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php and add the following to the register method:

<?php
// ...

// Configs
$this->app->configure('database');

// Enable queues
$this->app->make('queue');

Next, create config/database.php and add the following:

<?php

return [
  'redis' => [
    'client' => 'predis',
    'default' => [
      'host' => env('REDIS_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
      'password' => env('REDIS_PASSWORD', null),
      'port' => env('REDIS_PORT', 6379),
      'database' => 0
    ]
  ]
];

Don’t forget to set up all your environment variables for Redis, as well, to enable Redis for job processing and cache, set the following environment variables:

CACHE_DRIVER=redis
QUEUE_DRIVER=redis

That’s it! You can now queue mail or process jobs.