VALKEY-SERVER(1)

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version 9.1.2 · 3 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💾 VALKEY-SERVER 💾

okay bestie, so you know how there's a whole manual page situation for valkey-server? yeah. that's what this is. it lives in the General Commands Manual section, section 1, and it's about to be your new whole personality. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, let's go.

✨ NAME ✨

valkey-server — it's a persistent key-value database. that's the whole vibe. persisting. storing. slaying. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

valkey-server configfile

yep, that's it. one command, one argument. minimalism is the moment. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so Valkey is a key-value database. think "i hand you a key, you hand me a value," except this one remembers. it's similar to memcached, BUT — and this is the part everyone gets wrong — the dataset is not volatile. meaning it doesn't just ghost you when things restart. it stays. it's loyal. main character energy fr fr. 👑

and it's not just about keys and values, the way that it natively supports other datatypes like lists and sets?? obsessed. iconic. it's giving "i contain multitudes." 🌈

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • configfile — bestie. this is literally just "read options from the specified configuration file." you point it at a config file, it reads the options out of that file. periodt. no cap. 🫶

💜 NOTES 💜

okay so on Debian GNU/Linux systems specifically, you typically don't even start valkey-server by hand like some kind of gremlin — it gets started via the /etc/init.d/valkey-server initscript. the system handles it. let the system handle it. 🙈

and when it does that, it defaults to using /etc/valkey/valkey.conf as its configuration file. so that's the file it's reading. that's the one. iykyk. ✨

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

valkey-server was written by Salvatore Sanfilippo. legend behavior. 👑

this manual page — the very one you're reading right now — was written by Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). shoutout. 💖

lowkey a whole era in one little page, ngl 🕰️

so yeah. that's the whole manpage. thank you for coming to my ted talk, bestie. this was valkey-server, hanging out in the General Commands Manual as of March 20, 2009. go forth, read your config files, and stay persistent. 💅✨🎀

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