Redis 7 (Valkey) provides caching, session storage, and queue backends for Authentik, Paperless, n8n, and other services. It operates on the db_net network so consumers can reference it by the redis hostname.【F:databases/compose.yml†L52-L70】
redis:7-alpineredis-server --appendonly yes --requirepass ${REDIS_PASSWORD}db_netredis_data:/dataTZ, REDIS_PASSWORDredis-cli ping with password authentication every 10 seconds; allows a 20-second start period.【F:databases/compose.yml†L59-L68】1 for authentication sessions and background job state.【F:authentik/compose.yml†L33-L70】2 and 3 respectively) to segregate keys.【F:tools/compose.yml†L26-L236】db_net; avoid exposing ports publicly.REDIS_PASSWORD synchronized with all consuming containers; mismatched credentials are a common startup failure./data; periodic restarts or the BGREWRITEAOF command will compact logs.