Redis Cache

The REDIS strategy stores cached data in Redis. The cache persists across restarts and can be shared between multiple application instances. It supports TTL-based expiration, optional TLS, and compression (GZIP or BROTLI).

This is ideal for self-hosted production deployments that need shared, persistent cache without relying on a CDN.

Set the strategy in the Runtime block of your gothic.config.go file:

Runtime: gothic.RuntimeConfig{
	CacheStrategy:    gothic.REDIS,
	ServeStaticFiles: gothic.ALL_ENVS,
	CacheConfig: &gothic.CacheConfig{
		RedisURL:      "localhost:6379",
		RedisPassword: "your-password",
		RedisTLS:      false,
	},
},

The CacheConfig fields for Redis are: RedisURL — the Redis server address (e.g. localhost:6379), RedisPassword — authentication password, and RedisTLS — enable TLS for encrypted connections. You can also enable Compression and choose between GZIP (default) and BROTLI.

Here is a docker-compose.yml example for self-hosted deployments with Redis:

version: "3.8"
services:
  app:
    build: .
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    environment:
      - HTTP_LISTEN_ADDR=:8080
      - REDIS_URL=redis:6379
    depends_on:
      - redis
  redis:
    image: redis:7-alpine
    ports:
      - "6379:6379"

Want persistent cache without external dependencies? Check out the Local Files cache strategy!