# Discourse with DO managed Redis
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-with-do-managed-redis/153776
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [June 4, 2020, 6:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-with-do-managed-redis/153776 "2020-06-04T06:21:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@AAverin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AAverin)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2020, 6:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-with-do-managed-redis/153776/1 "2020-06-04T06:21:51Z")
I am planning a production setup for my Discourse installation and I would like to externalise database and redis.
In [discourse\_docker/samples/web\_only.yml at master · discourse/discourse\_docker · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/blob/master/samples/web_only.yml) I see variables for Postgress, allowing to configure it to be external.
For Redis it’s only `DISCOURSE_REDIS_HOST`. Example value is `data`.
What would be the right values for managed Redis? Are there any other variables and settings I should know about to make it work?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 3:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-with-do-managed-redis/153776/2 "2020-06-05T03:47:10Z")
You can also set the redis db. There is an example in the multisite topic.
Edit: but Rafael has a much better answer!
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-with-do-managed-redis/153776/3 "2020-06-05T04:18:10Z")
You need to set the following env variables for DO managed Redis:
```
DISCOURSE_REDIS_HOST: falcoland-redis-do-user-435229-0.a.db.ondigitalocean.com
DISCOURSE_REDIS_PASSWORD: vp39d0dpy8dxn68n
DISCOURSE_REDIS_PORT: 25061
DISCOURSE_REDIS_USE_SSL: true
```