diff --git a/types/catbox-redis/catbox-redis-tests.ts b/types/catbox-redis/catbox-redis-tests.ts
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+++ b/types/catbox-redis/catbox-redis-tests.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import * as CatbotRedis from 'catbox-redis';
+
+const cache = new CatbotRedis({
+    host: 'localhost',
+    partition: 'test',
+    port: 2018,
+});
+
+cache.get({
+    segment: 'test',
+    id: 'test',
+});
diff --git a/types/catbox-redis/index.d.ts b/types/catbox-redis/index.d.ts
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+++ b/types/catbox-redis/index.d.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+// Type definitions for catbox-redis 4.1
+// Project: https://github.com/hapijs/catbox-redis#readme
+// Definitions by: Simon Schick <https://github.com/SimonSchick>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 2.8
+
+// tslint:disable-next-line
+declare module 'catbox-redis' {
+    import { Redis } from 'ioredis';
+    import { EnginePrototype, ClientOptions, Client } from 'catbox';
+    namespace CatboxRedis {
+      interface CatboxRedisOptions extends ClientOptions {
+        /**
+         * Raw client.
+         */
+        client?: Redis;
+        /**
+         * the Redis server URL (if url is provided, host, port, and socket are ignored)
+         */
+        url?: string;
+        /**
+         * the Redis server hostname.
+         * Defaults to '127.0.0.1'.
+         */
+        host?: string;
+        /**
+         * the Redis server port or unix domain socket path.
+         * Defaults to 6379.
+         */
+        port?: number;
+        /**
+         * the unix socket string to connect to (if socket is provided, host and port are ignored)
+         */
+        socket?: string;
+        /**
+         * the Redis authentication password when required.
+         */
+        password?: string;
+        /**
+         * the Redis database.
+         */
+        database?: string;
+        /**
+         * an array of redis sentinel addresses to connect to.
+         */
+        sentinels?: Array<{
+          host: string;
+        }>;
+        /**
+         * the name of the sentinel master.
+         * (Only needed when sentinels is specified)
+         */
+        sentinelName?: string;
+      }
+    }
+    class CatboxRedis extends Client {
+      constructor(options: CatboxRedis.CatboxRedisOptions);
+    }
+    export = CatboxRedis;
+  }
diff --git a/types/catbox-redis/tsconfig.json b/types/catbox-redis/tsconfig.json
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index 0000000000..2d31a4bc59
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+++ b/types/catbox-redis/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "catbox-redis-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/catbox-redis/tslint.json b/types/catbox-redis/tslint.json
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index 0000000000..3db14f85ea
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+++ b/types/catbox-redis/tslint.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }
diff --git a/types/catbox/index.d.ts b/types/catbox/index.d.ts
index 6d51e48696..f6881b1aef 100644
--- a/types/catbox/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/catbox/index.d.ts
@@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ export interface CachedObject {
 export type CacheItem = any;
 
 export interface ClientOptions {
+    /**
+     * this will store items under keys that start with this value.
+     */
     partition: string;
 }