---
title: "Valkey - Configure an instance to accept incoming connections"
description: "Learn how to configure your Valkey instance to accept incoming connections."
url: https://docs.us.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/databases/valkey-configure-instance-accept-incoming-connections
lang: en
---
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# Valkey - Configure an instance to accept incoming connections

**Learn how to configure your Valkey instance to accept incoming connections.**

Cloud Databases allow you to focus on building and deploying cloud applications while OVHcloud takes care of the database infrastructure and maintenance in operational conditions.

 

## Requirements

- A [Public Cloud project](https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/) in your OVHcloud account
- Access to the [OVHcloud Control Panel](https://manager.us.ovhcloud.com/)
- A Valkey service running on your OVHcloud Cloud Databases ([this guide](https://docs.us.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/databases/getting-started.md) can help you to meet this requirement)

 

## Instructions

### Configure your Valkey instance to accept incoming connections

Before making a connection, we need to verify that our Valkey instance is correctly configured.

Log in to your [OVHcloud Control Panel](https://manager.us.ovhcloud.com/) and open your database instance via the `Public Cloud` and `Databases` menus.

 

#### Step 1: Verify your user roles and password

Select the `Users` tab. Verify that you have a user with sufficient rights and a password. If you don't remember the user's password, you can either create a new user or regenerate the password of an existing user. Be careful! By doing so, you will need to update all the places where you already use this user/password pair.

In our example, we will create a user called _User_ and rights for:

- Keys:\
  \* (for _all keys_)
- Commands:\
  **+ping** (for the _ping_ command)\
  **+info** (for the _info_ command)\
  **+echo** (for the _echo_ command)\
  **+get** (for the _get_ command)\
  **+set** (for the _set_ command)\
  **+client** (for the _client_ command)
- Channels:\
  \* (for _all channels_)

 

Once created or updated, the user has to be ready and with the "READY" status in the Control Panel.

**Note:**

Follow the [Commands Official Documentation](https://redis.io/commands/) to learn more.\
Follow [this guide](https://docs.us.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/databases/valkey-capabilities-limitations.md) to learn more about users, roles, capabilities, and limitations.

 

#### Step 2: Authorize incoming connections from the service

**Warning:**

**NOTE:** For security reasons, the default network configuration doesn't allow any incoming connections. You must authorize suitable IP addresses to successfully access your database.

In this step, select the `Configuration` tab. IP addresses must be authorized here before they can connect to your database.

Add the IP(s) you wish to authorize and click the add `+` button. 

Click `Saved changes` when you are finished.

**Note:**

If you want to allow connections from the outside, you can enter the IP 0.0.0.0/0. Please use it carefully.

 

#### Collect required information

Select the `Dashboard` tab to find the required login credentials in the **Connection information** section.

 

## Go further

Visit the [GitHub examples repository](https://github.com/ovh/public-cloud-databases-examples/tree/main/databases/redis) to find out how to connect to your database with several languages.

Browse all the [Databases guides](https://docs.us.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/databases/landing-page-databases.md).

Browse the rest of the [OVHcloud US documentation](https://docs.us.ovhcloud.com/en/index.md) for guides on our other products and services.

Learn more about [Managed Databases](https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/databases/) on the OVHcloud US website.