Get started with Aiven for Valkey™

Begin your journey with Aiven for Valkey™, the versatile in-memory data store offering high-performance capabilities for caching, message queues, and efficient data storage solutions.

Prerequisites

Console
CLI
Terraform

Access to the Aiven Console

Create a service

Console
CLI
Terraform

In your project, click Services.
Click Create service.
Select Valkey.
Select a Service tier.
Select a Cloud.

note
You cannot choose a cloud provider or a specific cloud region on the Free tier.
Select a Plan.

note
The plans available can vary between cloud providers and regions for the same service.
In the Service details, enter a name for your service.
Optional: Add service tags.
In the Service summary, click Create service.

The status of the service is Rebuilding during its creation. When the status is Running, you can start using the service. This typically takes a couple of minutes and can vary between cloud providers and regions.

Determine the service specifications, including plan, cloud provider, region, and project name.
Run the following command to create a Valkey service named demo-valkey:
```
 avn service create demo-valkey     \
 --service-type valkey              \
 --cloud CLOUD_AND_REGION           \
 --plan PLAN                        \
 --project PROJECT_NAME
```
Parameters:
- avn service create demo-valkey: Command to create new Aiven service named demo-valkey.
- --service-type valkey: Specifies the service type as Aiven for Valkey.
- --cloud CLOUD_AND_REGION: Specifies the cloud provider and region for deployment.
- --plan PLAN: Specifies the service plan or tier.
- --project PROJECT_NAME: Specifies the project where the service will be created.

To see:

A full list of default flags, run avn service create -h
Type-specific options, run avn service types -v

The following example files are also available in the Aiven Terraform Provider repository on GitHub.

Create a file named provider.tf and add the following:
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Create a file named service.tf and add the following:
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Create a file named variables.tf and add the following:
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Create the terraform.tfvars file and add the values for your token and project name.

To apply your Terraform configuration:

Initialize Terraform by running:

terraform init

The output is similar to the following:

Initializing the backend...

Initializing provider plugins...
- Finding aiven/aiven versions matching ">= 4.0.0, < 5.0.0"...
- Installing aiven/aiven v4.9.2...
- Installed aiven/aiven v4.9.2
...
Terraform has been successfully initialized!
...

To create an execution plan and preview the changes, run:
```
terraform plan
```
To deploy your changes, run:
```
terraform apply --auto-approve
```

Connect to Aiven for Valkey

Learn how to connect to Aiven for Valkey using different programming languages or through valkey-cli:

Prerequisites​

Create a service​

Connect to Aiven for Valkey​

Prerequisites

Create a service

Connect to Aiven for Valkey