JedisPool Connection Refused Spring Boot

I have a small spring boot application that I am trying to integrate with Redis using Jedis client.

I set up the Jedis pool to point towards a Redis docker container running locally.

    @Beanpublic JedisPool jedisPool() {    JedisPool jedisPool = null;    try {        URI redisUri = new URI("redis://localhost:6379");        jedisPool = new JedisPool(poolConfig(), redisUri, 20000, null, null, null);    } catch (URISyntaxException e) {        logger.error("Failed to create the redis pool: ", e);    }    return jedisPool;}

I have a RedisService that makes use of the JedisPool and perform transactions against the Redis Server.

 @AutowiredJedisPool jedisPool;@Overridepublic String retrieve(String key) {    Jedis jedis = jedisPool.getResource();    String json = jedis.get(key);    jedis.close();    return json;}@Overridepublic void store(String key, String value) {    Jedis jedis = jedisPool.getResource();    jedis.set(key, value);    jedis.expire(key, keyExpire);    jedis.close();}

When running the app I get this exception

redis.clients.jedis.exceptions.JedisConnectionException: Could not get a resource from the pool

Caused by: redis.clients.jedis.exceptions.JedisConnectionException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused)

I am able to connect to the Redis Server via redis-cli but not from my spring boot app.

Any ideas on how to solve this issue?