I have a Django 3.1 app that uses Redis for its cache backing store (django-redis). I wish to use django-channels, which has the ability to use Redis for channel layers.
Is it safe or unsafe to use the same Redis store for both the cache and the django-channels channel layer at the same time? In other words, I wish to have the following in my settings.py, and I want to know if that's okay.
import environ
env = environ.Env()
REDIS_HOST = env('REDIS_HOST', default='127.0.0.1')
REDIS_PORT = env('REDIS_PORT', default='6379')
CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django_redis.cache.RedisCache',
"LOCATION": "redis://" + REDIS_HOST + ":" + REDIS_PORT + "/0",
'OPTIONS': {
'CLIENT_CLASS': 'django_redis.client.DefaultClient',
'CONNECTION_POOL_KWARGS': {'max_connections': 30},
'IGNORE_EXCEPTIONS': True,
}
}
}
CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
"default": {
'BACKEND': 'channels_redis.core.RedisChannelLayer',
"CONFIG": {
"hosts": [(REDIS_HOST, int(REDIS_PORT))],
},
}
}
It is safe unless your cache have name collisions, which is rarely to happen since keys are prefixed by default in channels:
By default, channel key is prefixed with asgi:
and group key is prefixed with asgi:group:
You can read more here: channel key prefix