Connecting Elasticache to Strapi?

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I was able to connect my Strapi application to a local instance of redis using this guide: Caching in Strapi with REST Cache Plugin

However, the real instance I’m trying to connect to is AWS Elasticache. Saw this document (Strapi AWS Integration Guide — Restack), which says that using Elasticache. Any idea how I can adjust the rest-cache-plugin to work with Elasticache?

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Connecting Strapi to Redis and AWS Elasticache?

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You would need to build a provider for it

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You can look at these and see how they are built:

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<@211722558385553408> followed this guide for creating local providers here: Providers | Strapi Documentation

But I’m getting this error, even after running an npm install:

Error: Could not load REST Cache provider “elasticache”. You may need to install a provider plugin “yarn add strapi-provider-rest-cache-elasticache”

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Yeah that plugin isn’t owned by us so that documentation doesn’t apply to the REST cache plugin

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you’ll want to copy how the REST cache providers are built, not ours.

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Yeah I’ve copied exactly how theirs our setup but am still not able to find it

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I have it defined in package.json like:

“dependencies”: {

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no to run that command you’d have to publish it to npm first you would just install your modules

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so npm install

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To be honest you don’t really need a specific provider for elastic cache

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the usual redis provider should work since the redis plugin uses ioredis: connecting to AWS ElasticCache · Issue #689 · redis/ioredis · GitHub

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Yep looks like this is exactly what I needed! Adding the tls: {} fixed my issue!

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talky, Could you please provide an example of the credentials used to connect a plugin to ElastiCache?

I tried using it this way. not working.