Configure incoming connections of a Public Cloud Databases for Valkey service

Objective

Public Cloud Databases allow you to focus on building and deploying cloud applications while OVHcloud takes care of the database infrastructure and maintenance in operational conditions.

This guide explains how to configure your Valkey instance to accept incoming connections.

Requirements

• A Public Cloud project in your OVHcloud account
• Access to the OVHcloud Control Panel
• A Valkey service running on your OVHcloud Public Cloud Databases (this guide can help you to meet this requirement)

Instructions

Configure your Valkey instance to accept incoming connections

Before making a connection, we need to verify that our Valkey instance is correctly configured.

Log in to your OVHcloud Control Panel and open your Public Cloud project. Click on Databases in the left-hand navigation bar and select your Valkey instance.

Step 1: Verify your user roles and password

Select the Users tab. Verify that you have a user with sufficient rights and a password. If you don't remember the user's password, you can either create a new user or regenerate the password of an existing user. Be careful! By doing so you will need to update all the places where you already use this user/password pair.

In our example, we will create a user called redisUser and rights for :

• Keys:
  • * (for allkeys)
• Commands:
  • +ping (for the ping command)
  • +info (for the info command)
  • +echo (for the echo command)
  • +get (for the get command)
  • +set (for the set command)
  • +client (for the client command)
• Channels:
  • * (for allchannels)

Once created or updated, the user has to be ready and with the "Enabled" status in the Control Panel.

Step 2: Authorise incoming connections from the service

In this step, select the Authorised IPs tab. IP addresses must be authorised here before they can connect to your database.

Clicking on Add an IP address or IP address block (CIDR) opens a new window in which you can add single IP addresses or blocks to allow access to the database.

You can edit and retract database access via the ... button in the IP table.

Collect required information

Select the General information tab to find the required login credentials in the Login informations section.

Go further

Visit the Github examples repository to find how to connect to your database with several languages.

Visit our dedicated Discord channel: https://discord.gg/ovhcloud. Ask questions, provide feedback and interact directly with the team that builds our databases services.

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