How do I install redis 5.0.14 using homebrew - macos

Question

I need to install redis version 5.0.14 on my mac using brew.
I have tried multiple ways like brew install redis#5.0.14, redis#5.0, redis#50, redis#5 but nothing seems to work!!
I was able to find out on https://formulae.brew.sh/ that the options that can be installed using brew are redis, redis#4.0, redis#3.2 . But I need to install redis 5.0.14 or basically above 5.0.6 because that is the version we have on our production. Can anyone help me out on this?
I have seen a way here that suggests to checkout specific homebrew formulae version but that would become too messy if something goes wrong. I would prefer a straight forward way if there is one.

Answer 1

Given that the Redis version you require is not available via homebrew, your question is unanswerable. However, given how good docker is on macOS, I have taken to using that rather than homebrew for lots of version-related problems.
With docker:
I can pull any version I want,
it's all isolated from my core macOS,
just as performant,
readily deletable,
simple to have many versions,
switchable between versions,
repeatable across platforms and
configurable by script.
Official image here.
So, in concrete terms, you could run Redis 5.0.14 as a daemon like this:
docker run --name some-redis -d redis:5.0.14
and then connect to that same container and run redis-cli inside it like this:
docker exec -it some-redis redis-cli PING
PONG
Or you could run Redis in the container but expose its port 6379 as port 65000 to your regular macOS applications like this:
docker run --name some-redis -p 65000:6379 -d redis:5.0.14
Then it is accessible to your macOS applications, such as redis-cli like this:
redis-cli -p 65000 info | grep redis_version
redis_version:5.0.14

Answer 2

The version you're looking for is not available on brew unfortunately.
bruno#pop-os ~> brew info --json redis | jq -r '.[].versioned_formulae[]'
redis#4.0
redis#3.2
You could get the source code from here: https://github.com/redis/redis/releases/tag/5.0.14
extract it to some directory, to run Redis with the default configuration just type:
% cd src
% ./redis-server
If you want to provide your redis.conf, you have to run it using an additional
parameter (the path of the configuration file):
% cd src
% ./redis-server /path/to/redis.conf
It is possible to alter the Redis configuration by passing parameters directly
as options using the command line. Examples:
% ./redis-server --port 9999 --replicaof 127.0.0.1 6379
% ./redis-server /etc/redis/6379.conf --loglevel debug
All the options in redis.conf are also supported as options using the command
line, with exactly the same name.
Optionally you could use Docker, docker run --name some-redis -d redis:5.0.14

Answer 3

brew update
brew install redis
To have launchd start redis now and restart at login:
brew services start redis
To stop it, just run:
brew services stop redis
Test if Redis server is running.
redis-cli ping