Checking redis livliness

Use this within functions which are doing to use redis

     try:
         if reddisConnect():
             l.info('Redis connection is up')                                                                                                                                                                                             
             pass
     except Exception as err:
         l.error(f'Some problem with redis: {err}')

This is the connection function defined:

### redis config

def reddisConnect():
    redpass = "Hidden"
    global red
    try:
        try:
            if red.ping():
                l.info('Redis connecton set up and validated')
                return True
        except Exception:
            try:
                red = redis.Redis(password=redpass)
            except Exception as err:
                raise err
    except Exception as err:
        l.error(f'Problem setting up redis connection: {err}')

Hopefully that’s it. The postgres connection is a bit more brute force than that. I’ll fix it once I can see that global keyword is working as I hope it does.

I have been finding with the rabbitMQ call back functions that I need to double check that global variables are working like I hope they are!