Lettuce creates a new connection to redis before every operation

I'm using lettuce as my connectionFactory in a spring-boot application to connect to redis. It creates a new connection every time before an operation. Checked with the MONITOR command and profiler, there's a PING command sent before every operation. Attaching the configuration I used below.

public LettuceConnectionFactory redisConnectionFactory() throws FileNotFoundException {        final SocketOptions socketOptions = SocketOptions.builder()                .connectTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(connectionTimeout)).keepAlive(true).build();        final SslOptions sslOptions = sslEnabled ? SslOptions.builder().jdkSslProvider()                .trustManager(ResourceUtils.getFile(truststorePath)).build() : null;        final ClientOptions clientOptions = sslEnabled                ? ClientOptions.builder().sslOptions(sslOptions).socketOptions(socketOptions).build()                : ClientOptions.builder().socketOptions(socketOptions).build();        LettuceClientConfiguration clientConfig = LettuceClientConfiguration.builder()                .commandTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(timeout)).clientOptions(clientOptions).useSsl().build();        RedisStandaloneConfiguration serverConfig = new RedisStandaloneConfiguration(hostname,                port);        serverConfig.setPassword(accessKey);        final LettuceConnectionFactory lettuceConnectionFactory =                new LettuceConnectionFactory(serverConfig, clientConfig);        lettuceConnectionFactory.setValidateConnection(true);        lettuceConnectionFactory.setEagerInitialization(true);        lettuceConnectionFactory.afterPropertiesSet();        return lettuceConnectionFactory;    }    @Bean    public RedisTemplate<String, Long> redisTemplate() throws FileNotFoundException {        RedisTemplate<String, Long> redisTemplate = new RedisTemplate<>();        redisTemplate.setConnectionFactory(redisConnectionFactory());        redisTemplate.setKeySerializer(new StringRedisSerializer());        redisTemplate.setValueSerializer(new GenericToStringSerializer<>(Long.class));        return redisTemplate;    }

Is there a way to reuse the lettuce connection?