How to securely connect to Heroku Redis via the co

Question

The Heroku Redis CLI documentation states that connecting via the Heroku CLI is insecure, as it relies on the redis-cli binary.

Is there a secure way to connect to a Heroku Redis instance via a command-line interface? Connecting via my local machine, or though a dyno as a relay both work fine.

Answer 1

I believe this is because you're using the hobby-dev tier of Heroku Redis which seems not to support SSL.

SSL for Heroku Redis is only available on production tier plans. The hobby-dev plan is meant for testing and staging environments, not production.

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/securing-heroku-redis

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