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     redis_port: 6379
     redis_bind_interface: 127.0.0.1
+
+Port and interface on which Redis will listen. Set the interface to `0.0.0.0` to listen on all interfaces.
+
     redis_unixsocket: ''
+
+If set, Redis will also listen on a local Unix socket.
+
     redis_timeout: 300
 
+Close a connection after a client is idle `N` seconds. Set to `0` to disable timeout.
+
     redis_loglevel: "notice"
     redis_logfile: /var/log/redis/redis-server.log
 
+Log level and log location (valid levels are `debug`, `verbose`, `notice`, and `warning`).
+
     redis_databases: 16
 
+The number of Redis databases.
+
     # Set to an empty set to disable persistence (saving the DB to disk).
     redis_save:
       - 900 1
       - 300 10
       - 60 10000
 
+Snapshotting configuration; setting values in this list will save the database to disk if the given number of seconds (e.g. `900`) and the given number of write operations (e.g. `1`) have occurred.
+
     redis_rdbcompression: "yes"
     redis_dbfilename: dump.rdb
     redis_dbdir: /var/lib/redis
 
+Database compression and location configuration.
+
     redis_appendonly: "no"
+
+The appendonly option, if enabled, affords better data durability guarantees, at the cost of slightly slower performance.
+
     redis_appendfsync: "everysec"
 
+Valid values are `always` (slower, safest), `everysec` (happy medium), or `no` (let the filesystem flush data when it wants, most risky).
+
     redis_vm_enabled: "no"
 
+Whether to enable the use of virtual memory/swapping.
+
     # Add extra include files for local configuration/overrides.
     redis_includes: []
 
+Add extra include file paths to this list to include more/localized Redis configuration.
+
 ## Dependencies
 
 None.