Using Redis for Queues for Multiple Laravel Applications on a Single Server

Question

I have a production laravel application and the staging application running on the same server. I am running redis, which I am using as my queue driver. They are obviously c

Answer 1

You can set the prefix Laravel uses for the Redis cache. By default this is laravel, so all keys are stored as laravel:keyname and Laravel takes care of the logic to add/remove this prefix when saving/getting.

You can set the prefix in config/cache.php. You could leave the main one as laravel and set your staging app prefix to stage or something. This will mean multiple Laravel apps can use the same Redis instance.