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Valkey

Valkey is the cache and limiter store for SearXNG. It replaces Redis as the default in the official SearXNG deployment.

Host: Dankclaw — Docs: https://valkey.io

Facts (from research)

Item Value
Image valkey/valkey:9-alpine
Port 6379 (internal, on the SearXNG network)
Role SearXNG limiter + result cache

Why Valkey

The official SearXNG docker-compose ships a searxng-valkey container. Valkey is the Redis fork under the Linux Foundation umbrella; the SearXNG project moved to it as the default cache.

Configuration

The valkey unit is searxng-valkey.container (see SearXNG for the trio). It joins the searxng network and is reachable by the name searxng-valkey (container name) and the alias valkey:

[Container]
ContainerName=searxng-valkey
Network=searxng.network
NetworkAlias=valkey
Image=docker.io/valkey/valkey:9-alpine
Volume=/opt/searxng/valkey:/data

SearXNG connects to it via settings.yml:

valkey:
  url: "valkey://searxng-valkey:6379/0"

It sets WantedBy=default.target. User linger is on, so it starts at boot.

Volumes

Container path Host path (convention)
/data /opt/searxng/valkey

Gotchas

  • The limiter relies on Valkey; without it SearXNG falls back to in-memory state and rate limiting is per-restart.
  • Keep Valkey on the same podman network as SearXNG.

See Also