redisent.html.md.erb

---
title: Redis Enterprise
owner: Services
---


## <a id='integrating-your-service'></a> Integrating the Service With Your App

After the [creation](../devguide/services/managing-services.html#create) of the service and the [binding](../devguide/services/application-binding.html#bind) of the service to the application, the environment variable [VCAP_SERVICES](../devguide/deploy-apps/environment-variable.html#VCAP-SERVICES) is created. Information about the credentials are stored in this variable as shown here:

```json
{
  "redisent": [
    {
      "credentials": {
        "host": "09a2ff2e-e485-49ce-b175-06206beeab42-master.service.consul",
        "master": "redis://09a2ff2e-e485-49ce-b175-06206beeab42",
        "password": "HGiTVNno25gf6Gc3",
        "port": 33505,
        "sentinels": [
          {
            "host": "09a2ff2e-e485-49ce-b175-06206beeab42-2.service.consul",
            "port": 27348
          },
          {
            "host": "09a2ff2e-e485-49ce-b175-06206beeab42-0.service.consul",
            "port": 27348
          },
          {
            "host": "09a2ff2e-e485-49ce-b175-06206beeab42-1.service.consul",
            "port": 27348
          }
        ],
        "servers": [
          {
            "host": "09a2ff2e-e485-49ce-b175-06206beeab42-2.service.consul",
            "port": 33505
          },
          {
            "host": "09a2ff2e-e485-49ce-b175-06206beeab42-0.service.consul",
            "port": 33505
          },
          {
            "host": "09a2ff2e-e485-49ce-b175-06206beeab42-1.service.consul",
            "port": 33505
          }
        ]
      },
      "label": "redisent",
      "name": "redisent-example",
      "plan": "large",
      "provider": null,
      "syslog_drain_url": null,
      "tags": [],
      "volume_mounts": []
    }
  ]
}
```

You can connect to your service by discovering the current master via one of the "`sentinels`". Be sure to use one of the [supported client libraries](http://redis.io/clients) with the sentinel feature. See the [Redis Enterprise sample app](https://github.com/swisscom/cf-redis-example-app/tree/redisent).

For administrative work, you can connect directly via the `"host"` and `"port"`, which always points to the currently elected master. Please note that this connection variant should not be used for your production applications, always use sentinel-based discovery when possible.

## <a id='administrative'></a> Administrating your Redis instances

To connect to a running Redis instance with your local development tools, you can use the [`cf ssh`](../devguide/deploy-apps/ssh-services.html) feature of the cf CLI.

## <a id='sample-application'></a> Sample Application

Swisscom: [Redis Enterprise Example](https://github.com/swisscom/cf-redis-example-app/tree/redisent)