diff --git a/roles/docker-mailu/templates/docker-compose.yml.j2 b/roles/docker-mailu/templates/docker-compose.yml.j2
index f2542088..233238c2 100644
--- a/roles/docker-mailu/templates/docker-compose.yml.j2
+++ b/roles/docker-mailu/templates/docker-compose.yml.j2
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ services:
   redis:
     image: redis:alpine
     restart: always
+    env_file: mailu.env
     volumes:
       - "redis_data:/data"
   database:
diff --git a/roles/docker-mailu/templates/mailu.env.j2 b/roles/docker-mailu/templates/mailu.env.j2
index d00dfc04..0a85ad40 100644
--- a/roles/docker-mailu/templates/mailu.env.j2
+++ b/roles/docker-mailu/templates/mailu.env.j2
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
 # Common configuration variables
 ###################################
 
+# TIMEOUTS
+COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT=300
+DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=300
+
 # Set to a randomly generated 16 bytes string
 SECRET_KEY={{mailu_secret_key}}