Install latest redis from source (Ubuntu)

etc-init-redis.conf

description "redis server"

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [016]

exec sudo -u redis /opt/redis/redis-server /opt/redis/redis.conf

respawn

etc-logrotate.d-redis

/opt/redis/redis.log {
       daily
       rotate 7
       copytruncate
       delaycompress
       compress
       notifempty
       missingok
}

redis-install.sh

# This installs redis in /opt/redis/. This matches previous installations on our system.
# I don't know how it was installed initially, but it definitely wasn't via apt or the
# default source install.

# Download and extract
wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.6.5.tar.gz
tar -xzf redis-2.6.5.tar.gz

# Build
cd redis-2.6.5/
make

# Test (optional)
sudo apt-get install tcl8.5
make test

# Install
mkdir -p /opt/redis/
sudo cp src/redis-{server,benchmark,check-aof,check-dump,cli,sentinel} /opt/redis/
sudo cp redis.conf /opt/redis/redis.conf.default

# Update redis.conf as needed:
#   Change paths  to /opt/redis/ instead of /var/run/ or /usr/local/.
#   Leave the daemonize setting to no or upstart will lose track of the pid.

# Create a redis user
sudo useradd --system --home-dir /opt/redis/ redis
sudo chown -R redis:redis /opt/redis/

# Make it run at boot:
#   Create an upstart job config in /etc/init/redis.conf
#   I included a simple version in this gist (etc-init-redis.conf).

# Start redis
sudo service redis start

# Process should be running as the redis user
ps aux | grep redis
redis    27192  3.0  0.0  36184  1872 ?        Ssl  09:11   0:00 /opt/redis/redis-server /opt/redis/redis.conf

# Use CLI to actually issue commands to redis.
/opt/redis/redis-cli
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> ping
PONG
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> set foo bar
OK
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> get foo
"bar"
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> ^D

# Done.