diff --git a/009_define_file_templates.tf b/009_define_file_templates.tf
index 86f11fd..e407e26 100644
--- a/009_define_file_templates.tf
+++ b/009_define_file_templates.tf
@@ -157,11 +157,13 @@ locals {
 
       flag_enable_data_studio = var.flag_enable_data_studio,
       data_studio_container_version = var.data_studio_container_version,
+      updated_redis_version = tonumber(length(regexall("^v24.2.[0-9]", var.tower_container_version))) >= 1 ? true : false
     }
   )
 }
 
 
+
 ## ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ## Seqerakit - Everything But Compute Environments
 ## ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/assets/src/docker_compose/docker-compose.yml.tpl b/assets/src/docker_compose/docker-compose.yml.tpl
index b329ecc..87b3db4 100644
--- a/assets/src/docker_compose/docker-compose.yml.tpl
+++ b/assets/src/docker_compose/docker-compose.yml.tpl
@@ -29,7 +29,12 @@ services:
 
 %{ if flag_use_container_redis == true ~}
   redis:
-    image: cr.seqera.io/public/redis:6.0
+    image: 
+%{ if updated_redis_version ~}
+      cr.seqera.io/public/redis:7
+%{ else ~}
+      cr.seqera.io/public/redis:6.0
+%{ endif ~}
     networks:
       - backend
     expose:
diff --git a/scripts/installer/validation/check_configuration.py b/scripts/installer/validation/check_configuration.py
index ca57ebf..a156753 100644
--- a/scripts/installer/validation/check_configuration.py
+++ b/scripts/installer/validation/check_configuration.py
@@ -542,6 +542,33 @@ def verify_alb_settings(data: SimpleNamespace):
         )
 
 
+def verify_redis_version(data: SimpleNamespace):
+    """Warn that versions of Seqera Platform >= 24.2 will default to Redis v7.0 container image."""
+
+    if data.tower_container_version >= "v24.2.0":
+
+        if data.flag_use_container_redis:
+
+            logger.warning(
+                "Seqera Platform version >= 24.2.0 uses a Redis v7.0 container (previously Redis v6.0)."
+            )
+
+        if data.flag_create_external_redis:
+            # TO DO
+            # As of Jan 9/25, the external redis are hardcoded into the `003-database.tf` file.
+            # This uses a redis 7.0 as baseline and thus is compliant to the needs of 24.2.2.
+            # In future this may need to change if Tower demands require a version > Redis 7.0 OR we
+            # choose to make the external redis values configurable.
+            logger.warning(
+                "The external Elasticache instance is hardcoded to use Redis 7.0."
+            )
+
+    else:
+        logger.warning(
+            "When you upgrade to Seqera Platform >= v24.2, a Redis version >= 6.2 will be required."
+        )
+
+
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # MAIN
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -570,6 +597,7 @@ def verify_alb_settings(data: SimpleNamespace):
     verify_if_v24_1_3(data)
     verify_if_v24_1_4(data)
     verify_connect_version_tls(data)
+    verify_redis_version(data)
 
     # Verify tfvars fields
     logger.info("----- Verifying TFVARS file -----")
diff --git a/templates/TEMPLATE_terraform.tfvars b/templates/TEMPLATE_terraform.tfvars
index 8a5d016..0409a8d 100644
--- a/templates/TEMPLATE_terraform.tfvars
+++ b/templates/TEMPLATE_terraform.tfvars
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ flag_use_existing_external_db           = false
 flag_use_container_db                   = true
 
 # Only one of these can be true.
+# NOTE: Redis versions and ports are hard-coded in their respective files (docker-compose.yaml &
+#  003-database.tf)
 flag_create_external_redis              = false
 flag_use_container_redis                = true