Accessing GCP Memorystore from local machines

Question

Whats the best way to access Memorystore from Local Machines during development? Is there something like Cloud SQL Proxy that I can use to set up a tunnel?

Answer 1

I created a vm on google cloud

gcloud compute instances create redis-forwarder --machine-type=f1-micro

then ssh into it and installed haproxy

sudo su
apt-get install haproxy

then updated the config file

/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg

....existing file contents
frontend redis_frontend
  bind *:6379
  mode tcp
  option tcplog
  timeout client  1m
  default_backend redis_backend

 backend redis_backend
   mode tcp
   option tcplog
   option log-health-checks
   option redispatch
   log global
   balance roundrobin
   timeout connect 10s
   timeout server 1m
   server redis_server [MEMORYSTORE IP]:6379 check

restart haproxy

/etc/init.d/haproxy restart

I was then able to connect to memory store from my local machine for development