diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1909.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1909.xml
index f831cfcdc57..14fafabde8e 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1909.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1909.xml
@@ -599,6 +599,11 @@
       package and <literal>crashplan-small-business</literal> service have been
       removed from nixpkgs due to lack of maintainer.
     </para>
+    <para>
+      The <link linkend="opt-services.redis.enable">redis module</link> was hardcoded to use the <literal>redis</literal> user,
+      <filename class="directory">/run/redis</filename> as runtime directory and
+      <filename class="directory">/var/lib/redis</filename> as state directory.
+    </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
     <para>
diff --git a/nixos/modules/rename.nix b/nixos/modules/rename.nix
index 1048c2af2ea..9e0ab60ca67 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/rename.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/rename.nix
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ with lib;
 
     # binfmt
     (mkRenamedOptionModule [ "boot" "binfmtMiscRegistrations" ] [ "boot" "binfmt" "registrations" ])
-    
+
     # ACME
     (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "security" "acme" "directory"] "ACME Directory is now hardcoded to /var/lib/acme and its permisisons are managed by systemd. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/53852 for more info.")
     (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "security" "acme" "preDelay"] "This option has been removed. If you want to make sure that something executes before certificates are provisioned, add a RequiredBy=acme-\${cert}.service to the service you want to execute before the cert renewal")
@@ -285,6 +285,13 @@ with lib;
           throw "services.redshift.longitude is set to null, you can remove this"
           else builtins.fromJSON value))
 
+    # Redis
+    (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "services" "redis" "user" ] "The redis module now is hardcoded to the redis user.")
+    (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "services" "redis" "dbpath" ] "The redis module now uses /var/lib/redis as data directory.")
+    (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "services" "redis" "dbFilename" ] "The redis module now uses /var/lib/redis/dump.rdb as database dump location.")
+    (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "services" "redis" "appendOnlyFilename" ] "This option was never used.")
+    (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "services" "redis" "pidFile" ] "This option was removed.")
+
   ] ++ (forEach [ "blackboxExporter" "collectdExporter" "fritzboxExporter"
                    "jsonExporter" "minioExporter" "nginxExporter" "nodeExporter"
                    "snmpExporter" "unifiExporter" "varnishExporter" ]
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/databases/redis.nix b/nixos/modules/services/databases/redis.nix
index a11c8ff1275..9c389d80a6d 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/databases/redis.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/databases/redis.nix
@@ -8,17 +8,19 @@ let
   condOption = name: value: if value != null then "${name} ${toString value}" else "";
 
   redisConfig = pkgs.writeText "redis.conf" ''
-    pidfile ${cfg.pidFile}
     port ${toString cfg.port}
     ${condOption "bind" cfg.bind}
     ${condOption "unixsocket" cfg.unixSocket}
+    daemonize yes
+    supervised systemd
     loglevel ${cfg.logLevel}
     logfile ${cfg.logfile}
     syslog-enabled ${redisBool cfg.syslog}
+    pidfile /run/redis/redis.pid
     databases ${toString cfg.databases}
     ${concatMapStrings (d: "save ${toString (builtins.elemAt d 0)} ${toString (builtins.elemAt d 1)}\n") cfg.save}
-    dbfilename ${cfg.dbFilename}
-    dir ${toString cfg.dbpath}
+    dbfilename dump.rdb
+    dir /var/lib/redis
     ${if cfg.slaveOf != null then "slaveof ${cfg.slaveOf.ip} ${toString cfg.slaveOf.port}" else ""}
     ${condOption "masterauth" cfg.masterAuth}
     ${condOption "requirepass" cfg.requirePass}
@@ -55,18 +57,6 @@ in
         description = "Which Redis derivation to use.";
       };
 
-      user = mkOption {
-        type = types.str;
-        default = "redis";
-        description = "User account under which Redis runs.";
-      };
-
-      pidFile = mkOption {
-        type = types.path;
-        default = "/var/lib/redis/redis.pid";
-        description = "";
-      };
-
       port = mkOption {
         type = types.int;
         default = 6379;
@@ -100,7 +90,7 @@ in
         type = with types; nullOr path;
         default = null;
         description = "The path to the socket to bind to.";
-        example = "/run/redis.sock";
+        example = "/run/redis/redis.sock";
       };
 
       logLevel = mkOption {
@@ -136,18 +126,6 @@ in
         example = [ [900 1] [300 10] [60 10000] ];
       };
 
-      dbFilename = mkOption {
-        type = types.str;
-        default = "dump.rdb";
-        description = "The filename where to dump the DB.";
-      };
-
-      dbpath = mkOption {
-        type = types.path;
-        default = "/var/lib/redis";
-        description = "The DB will be written inside this directory, with the filename specified using the 'dbFilename' configuration.";
-      };
-
       slaveOf = mkOption {
         default = null; # { ip, port }
         description = "An attribute set with two attributes: ip and port to which this redis instance acts as a slave.";
@@ -175,12 +153,6 @@ in
         description = "By default data is only periodically persisted to disk, enable this option to use an append-only file for improved persistence.";
       };
 
-      appendOnlyFilename = mkOption {
-        type = types.str;
-        default = "appendonly.aof";
-        description = "Filename for the append-only file (stored inside of dbpath)";
-      };
-
       appendFsync = mkOption {
         type = types.str;
         default = "everysec"; # no, always, everysec
@@ -222,19 +194,15 @@ in
       allowedTCPPorts = [ cfg.port ];
     };
 
-    users.users.redis =
-      { name = cfg.user;
-        description = "Redis database user";
-      };
+    users.users.redis.description = "Redis database user";
 
     environment.systemPackages = [ cfg.package ];
 
     systemd.services.disable-transparent-huge-pages = {
-      enable = config.services.redis.enable;
       description = "Disable Transparent Huge Pages (required by Redis)";
       before = [ "redis.service" ];
       wantedBy = [ "redis.service" ];
-      script = "echo never >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled";
+      script = "echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled";
       serviceConfig.Type = "oneshot";
     };
 
@@ -244,14 +212,12 @@ in
         wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
         after = [ "network.target" ];
 
-        preStart = ''
-          install -d -m0700 -o ${cfg.user} ${cfg.dbpath}
-          chown -R ${cfg.user} ${cfg.dbpath}
-        '';
-
         serviceConfig = {
           ExecStart = "${cfg.package}/bin/redis-server ${redisConfig}";
-          User = cfg.user;
+          RuntimeDirectory = "redis";
+          StateDirectory = "redis";
+          Type = "notify";
+          User = "redis";
         };
       };