Using Cloud Memorystore

As we learned in the Designing for scalability and availability section, Cloud Memorystore is fully managed, highly available, and scalable Redis as a Service. We will be using this to handle user sessions for our application. To use Cloud Memorystore with our application, we will need to perform two activities. The first activity is to provision an instance of Cloud Memorystore, the second activity is to update our Regional Managed Instance Group to use this instance.

Provisioning a Cloud Memorystore instance

We will now provision our Cloud Memorystore instance by performing the following steps:

1. From the navigation menu, select Memorystore:

   Figure 11.3 – Navigation menu: Memorystore

2. Click CREATE INSTANCE:

   Figure 11.4 – CREATE INSTANCE

3. On the Create a Redis instance page, provide an Instance ID and Display name:

   Figure 11.5 – Instance ID and Display name

4. Select the Tier and Region. As this is not a production system...