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This is a Heroku buildpack that allows an application to use an stunnel to connect securely to Heroku Redis. It is meant to be used in conjunction with other buildpacks.
Warning
This buildpack isn’t compatible with the heroku-24
stack and later. You don’t need this buildpack for Redis 6+, which supports native TLS.
For more information, see Securing Heroku Redis.
First, ensure your Heroku Redis addon is using a production tier plan. SSL is not available when using the hobby tier.
Then set this buildpack as your initial buildpack with:
$ heroku buildpacks:add -i 1 heroku/redis
Then confirm you are using this buildpack as well as your language buildpack like so:
$ heroku buildpacks
=== frozen-potato-95352 Buildpack URLs
1. heroku/redis
2. heroku/python
For more information on using multiple buildpacks check out this devcenter article.
Next, for each process that should connect to Redis securely, you will need to preface the command in
your Procfile
with bin/start-stunnel
. In this example, we want the web
process to use
a secure connection to Heroku Redis. The worker
process doesn't interact with Redis, so
bin/start-stunnel
was not included:
$ cat Procfile
web: bin/start-stunnel bundle exec unicorn -p $PORT -c ./config/unicorn.rb -E $RACK_ENV
worker: bundle exec rake worker
We're then ready to deploy to Heroku with an encrypted connection between the dynos and Heroku Redis:
$ git push heroku main
...
-----> Fetching custom git buildpack... done
-----> Multipack app detected
=====> Downloading Buildpack: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-redis.git
=====> Detected Framework: Redis-stunnel
Using stunnel version: 5.02
Using stack version: cedar
-----> Fetching and vendoring stunnel into slug
-----> Moving the configuration generation script into app/bin
-----> Moving the start-stunnel script into app/bin
-----> Redis-stunnel done
=====> Downloading Buildpack: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-ruby.git
=====> Detected Framework: Ruby/Rack
-----> Using Ruby version: ruby-2.2.2
-----> Installing dependencies using Bundler version 1.7.12
...
The buildpack will install and configure stunnel to connect to REDIS_URL
over a SSL connection. Prepend bin/start-stunnel
to any process in the Procfile to run stunnel alongside that process.
Some settings are configurable through app config vars at runtime:
STUNNEL_ENABLED
: Default to true, enable or disable stunnel.STUNNEL_LOGLEVEL
: Default is notice
, set to info
or debug
for more verbose log output.If your application needs to connect to multiple Heroku Redis instances securely, this buildpack
will automatically create an Stunnel for each color Heroku Redis config var (HEROKU_REDIS_COLOR
)
and the REDIS_URL
config var. If you have Redis urls that aren't in one of these config vars you
will need to explicitly tell the buildpack that you need an Stunnel by setting the REDIS_STUNNEL_URLS
config var to a list of the appropriate config vars:
$ heroku config:add REDIS_STUNNEL_URLS="CACHE_URL SESSION_STORE_URL"
The heroku/redis
buildpack points to the latest stable version of the buildpack published in the Buildpack Registry. To use the latest version of the buildpack (the code in this repository), run the following command:
$ heroku buildpacks:add https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-redis
Copy the snippet above into CLI.