I'm trying to deploy a redis pod to allow my staging app connecting to it (to avoid using Redis Managed Service in staging ENV).

I'm using Google Cloud Platform with GKE, so managed k8s cluster...

However, when I try to make a connection (from another redis pod only to test) I receive this message :

Could not connect to Redis at redis-cip.redis.svc.cluster.local:6379: Connection refused

The command that I use to make the test is this :

redis-cli -h redis-cip.redis.svc.cluster.local -p 6379 

The URL is composed by :

• redis-cip: is the service ClusterIP that I use to allow connection to my redis POD
• redis : is the namespace where is hosted redis POD

Moreover,I use, as is already written in some question on StackOverflow, this redis configuration :

protected-mode no
maxmemory 32mb
maxmemory-policy allkeys-lru

In attached the full k8s mapping :

ConfigMap :

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: redis-configmap
  namespace: redis
data:
  redis.conf: |
    protected-mode no
    maxmemory 32mb
    maxmemory-policy allkeys-lru

Redis Deploy :

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: redis
  namespace: redis
spec:
  containers:
    - name: redis
      image: redis
      command:
        - redis-server
        - /usr/local/etc/redis/redis.conf
      env:
        - name: MASTER
          value: "true"
      ports:
        - containerPort: 6379
      volumeMounts:
        - mountPath: /redis-master-data
          name: data
        - mountPath: /usr/local/etc/redis/
          name: redis-configmap
      resources:
        requests:
          memory: {{ .Values.resources.requests.memory }}
          cpu: {{ .Values.resources.requests.cpu }}
        limits:
          memory: {{ .Values.resources.limits.memory }}
          cpu: {{ .Values.resources.limits.cpu }}
  volumes:
    - name: data
      emptyDir: {}
    - name: redis-configmap
      configMap:
        name: redis-configmap

ClusterIP Service:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: redis-cip
  namespace: redis
  labels:
    app: redis
spec:
  ports:
  - port: 6379
    targetPort: 6379
  selector:
    app: redis
  type: ClusterIP