Google Cloud Memorystore
Deploying a Redis instance to Cloud Memorystore for the WordPress API only requires a bit of configuration to the environment variables and then to run a few make commands.
Environment Variables
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
GCM_INSTANCE_NAME | The name of the Redis instance. |
GCM_INSTANCE_SIZE | The memory size of the instance in GiB. Must be an integer number between 1-300. This setting dramatically changes costs, do your research before deploying an instance. |
GCM_INSTANCE_TIER | The service tier of the instance. Must be one of: basic, standard. Basic means the Redis instance will not have replication. Standard is a high-availability Redis instance with replication for failover. |
Deploy
Deploy the Google Cloud Memorystore Redis instance:
make api.deploy.redis
Get metadata, including the internal VPC IP address, for the Google Cloud Memorystore Redis instance:
make api.get.redis
Delete the Google Cloud Memorystore Redis instance:
make api.clean.redis