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Introducing the Valkey datastore

Introducing the Valkey datastore

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Introducing the Valkey datastore

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- [Instructor] Valkey is a key-based in-memory data storage system, which operates as a system service and provides a high performance and persistent dictionary-style approach to data storage. It incorporates the necessary functionality to apply access control to keys, and it enforces permissions over key manipulation. While Valkey isn't a security tool, it is a powerful capability for security professionals to have available on their systems and built into their applications. In this section we'll see how we install Valkey and check its operation. To install Valkey, we'll clone the repository. git clone https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey That's it. We can now build the tool by going into valkey/src and making it. That's it. We're now built. Let's add a service file to enable Valkey to start on reboot. sudo nano/etc/systemd/system/valkey.service Unit Description=Valkey in-memory Database After=network.target Service Type=simple user=route ExecStart=/home/kali/valkey/src/valkey-server…

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