--- title: How To Install and Secure Redis on Ubuntu | daily.dev description: A comprehensive guide to installing Redis on Ubuntu and hardening it for production use. Covers APT installation, systemd configuration, Access Control Lists... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-install-and-secure-redis-on-ubuntu-syfjke74v twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How To Install and Secure Redis on Ubuntu | daily.dev og:description: A comprehensive guide to installing Redis on Ubuntu and hardening it for production use. Covers APT installation, systemd configuration, Access Control Lists... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-install-and-secure-redis-on-ubuntu-syfjke74v og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SYfJKE74V.png og:image:alt: How To Install and Secure Redis on Ubuntu og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How To Install and Secure Redis on Ubuntu **[DigitalOcean Community](https://daily.dev/sources/do_community)** · 20 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A comprehensive guide to installing Redis on Ubuntu and hardening it for production use. Covers APT installation, systemd configuration, Access Control Lists (ACLs) for user management, TLS encryption with self-signed certificates and mutual TLS, UFW firewall rules, memory limits with maxmemory directives, Unix sockets, AppArmor profiles, slow log monitoring, and RDB/AOF persistence. Also explains why legacy practices like command renaming are obsolete in favor of ACLs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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