# Managed Valkey on CreateOS

Managed Valkey (Redis-compatible) cache for high-performance caching, session storage, and real-time data structures.

## Use Cases

- Session storage
- API response caching
- Rate limiting
- Real-time leaderboards
- Pub/Sub messaging
- Job queues

## Features

- Redis-compatible API
- Sub-millisecond latency
- Persistent storage option
- Pub/Sub support
- Lua scripting
- Cluster mode

## How to Set Up

1. ### Create cache instance
   Add a Valkey service to your project from the services panel.

2. ### Get connection URL
   Copy the REDIS_URL from the service settings.

3. ### Add to environment
   Add the connection URL to your application's environment variables.

4. ### Connect and use
   Use Redis client libraries (ioredis, redis-py) to connect.

## Pricing

- Plus plan: 256 MB.
- Pro plan: 2 GB.
- Enterprise: Custom.