diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 41f1bc431..24d4909f8 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.9.6
 
 Package: passbook
 Architecture: all
-Recommends: mysql-server, rabbitmq-server
+Recommends: mysql-server, rabbitmq-server, redis-server
 Pre-Depends: adduser, libldap2-dev, libsasl2-dev
 Depends: python3 (>= 3.5) | python3.6 | python3.7, python3-pip, dbconfig-pgsql | dbconfig-no-thanks, ${misc:Depends}
 Description: Authentication Provider/Proxy supporting protocols like SAML, OAuth, LDAP and more.
diff --git a/helm/passbook/charts/redis-5.1.0.tgz b/helm/passbook/charts/redis-5.1.0.tgz
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..71237425a
Binary files /dev/null and b/helm/passbook/charts/redis-5.1.0.tgz differ
diff --git a/helm/passbook/requirements.lock b/helm/passbook/requirements.lock
index e0d0da107..15be0d3d0 100644
--- a/helm/passbook/requirements.lock
+++ b/helm/passbook/requirements.lock
@@ -5,5 +5,8 @@ dependencies:
 - name: postgresql
   repository: https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/
   version: 3.10.1
-digest: sha256:c36e054785f7d706d7d3f525eb1b167dbc89b42f84da7fc167a18bbb6542c999
-generated: 2019-03-11T20:36:35.125079+01:00
+- name: redis
+  repository: https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/
+  version: 5.1.0
+digest: sha256:8bf68bc928a2e3c0f05139635be05fa0840554c7bde4cecd624fac78fb5fa5a3
+generated: 2019-03-21T11:06:51.553379+01:00
diff --git a/helm/passbook/requirements.yaml b/helm/passbook/requirements.yaml
index 9ae71eac5..0f2e1f356 100644
--- a/helm/passbook/requirements.yaml
+++ b/helm/passbook/requirements.yaml
@@ -5,3 +5,6 @@ dependencies:
 - name: postgresql
   version: 3.10.1
   repository: https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/
+- name: redis
+  version: 5.1.0
+  repository: https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/
diff --git a/helm/passbook/templates/passbook-configmap.yaml b/helm/passbook/templates/passbook-configmap.yaml
index 8283e8d20..6fcf669a3 100644
--- a/helm/passbook/templates/passbook-configmap.yaml
+++ b/helm/passbook/templates/passbook-configmap.yaml
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ data:
     secure_proxy_header:
       HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO: https
     rabbitmq: "user:{{ .Values.rabbitmq.rabbitmq.password }}@{{ .Release.Name }}-rabbitmq"
+    redis: ":{{ .Values.redis.password }}@{{ .Release.Name }}-redis-master"
     # Error reporting, sends stacktrace to sentry.services.beryju.org
     error_report_enabled: {{ .Values.config.error_reporting }}
 
diff --git a/passbook/core/requirements.txt b/passbook/core/requirements.txt
index dea78258c..e6bf90dbe 100644
--- a/passbook/core/requirements.txt
+++ b/passbook/core/requirements.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
-django>=2.0
-django-model-utils
+celery
+cherrypy
+colorlog
 django-ipware
+django-model-utils
+django-redis
+django>=2.0
 djangorestframework
+idna<2.8,>=2.5
+markdown
+psycopg2
 PyYAML
 raven
-markdown
-colorlog
-celery
-psycopg2
-idna<2.8,>=2.5
-cherrypy
diff --git a/passbook/core/settings.py b/passbook/core/settings.py
index b5b42ef78..f30af2c77 100644
--- a/passbook/core/settings.py
+++ b/passbook/core/settings.py
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'passbook_core.User'
 
 CSRF_COOKIE_NAME = 'passbook_csrf'
 SESSION_COOKIE_NAME = 'passbook_session'
+SESSION_ENGINE = "django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache"
+SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS = "default"
 LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME = 'passbook_language'
 
 AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = [
@@ -99,6 +101,16 @@ REST_FRAMEWORK = {
     ]
 }
 
+CACHES = {
+    "default": {
+        "BACKEND": "django_redis.cache.RedisCache",
+        "LOCATION": "redis://%s" % CONFIG.get('redis'),
+        "OPTIONS": {
+            "CLIENT_CLASS": "django_redis.client.DefaultClient",
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
diff --git a/passbook/lib/default.yml b/passbook/lib/default.yml
index ab1015d9e..450581a93 100644
--- a/passbook/lib/default.yml
+++ b/passbook/lib/default.yml
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ debug: false
 secure_proxy_header:
   HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO: https
 rabbitmq: guest:guest@localhost/passbook
+redis: localhost
 # Error reporting, sends stacktrace to sentry.services.beryju.org
 error_report_enabled: true
 secret_key: 9$@r!d^1^jrn#fk#1#@ks#9&i$^s#1)_13%$rwjrhd=e8jfi_s