Nest: Can't connect to AWS ElasticCache Redis

[piotr-zurek]

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Current behavior

When my application is deployed to Amazon ECS, i'm not able to connect to ElasticCache Redis.

Minimal reproduction of the problem with instructions

1. Set-up Amazon ECS container and Redis instance
2. Set proper security grops
3. Try to connect nestjs to redis:

const microservice = app.connectMicroservice({
    transport: Transport.REDIS,
    options: {
      url: "redis://[redis_endpoint]",
    },
  });

1. Try to run app
   Log output:

[Nest] 77969   - 04/14/2019, 12:27 PM   [NestFactory] Starting Nest application...
[Nest] 77969   - 04/14/2019, 12:27 PM   [InstanceLoader] TypeOrmModule dependencies initialized +134ms
[Nest] 77969   - 04/14/2019, 12:27 PM   [InstanceLoader] PassportModule dependencies initialized +1ms
[Nest] 77969   - 04/14/2019, 12:27 PM   [InstanceLoader] ClientsModule dependencies initialized +2ms
[Nest] 77969   - 04/14/2019, 12:27 PM   [InstanceLoader] JwtModule dependencies initialized +2ms
[Nest] 77969   - 04/14/2019, 12:27 PM   [InstanceLoader] TypeOrmCoreModule dependencies initialized +548ms
[Nest] 77969   - 04/14/2019, 12:27 PM   [InstanceLoader] TypeOrmModule dependencies initialized +2ms
[Nest] 77969   - 04/14/2019, 12:27 PM   [InstanceLoader] TypeOrmModule dependencies initialized +35ms
[Nest] 77969   - 04/14/2019, 12:27 PM   [InstanceLoader] TypeOrmModule dependencies initialized +9ms
[Nest] 77969   - 04/14/2019, 12:27 PM   [InstanceLoader] TypeOrmModule dependencies initialized +4ms
[Nest] 77969   - 04/14/2019, 12:27 PM   [InstanceLoader] TypeOrmModule dependencies initialized +2ms
[Nest] 77969   - 04/14/2019, 12:27 PM   [InstanceLoader] TypeOrmModule dependencies initialized +2ms
[Nest] 77969   - 04/14/2019, 12:27 PM   [InstanceLoader] TypeOrmModule dependencies initialized +14ms
[Nest] 77969   - 04/14/2019, 12:27 PM   [InstanceLoader] TypeOrmModule dependencies initialized +3ms
[Nest] 77969   - 04/14/2019, 12:27 PM   [InstanceLoader] CategoriesModule dependencies initialized +11ms
[.... other modules ...]
[Nest] 77969   - 04/14/2019, 12:27 PM   [NestMicroservice] Nest microservice successfully started +332ms

Then app logs looks like freezed - no "Nest application successfully started" information, application doesn't respond to requests.

Environment

Nest version: 6.1.0


For Tooling issues:
- Node version: 10  
- Platform:  linux 

Others:

[kamilmysliwiec]

Not sure how we can help you with this issue honestly. It sounds rather like a devops problem.

[miraage]

AFAIK AWS does not expose ports by default. You need to expose the 6379 port and secure your redis configuration with username/password. To make sure whether you exposed connection properly, you can try to open a telnet connection.

[joeyslack]

Just a note, although this is definitely offtopic for this project: you cannot connect to ElasticCache outside of AWS. That means that you cannot use Redis ElasticCache in local, or non AWS hosted projects. AWS will only permit connects to ElasticCache from other AWS machines.

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