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Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents. Varnish Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300 - 1000x, depending on your architecture.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_(software)

Create a default.vcl file:

vcl 4.0;

backend default {
  .host = "www.nytimes.com";
  .port = "80";
}

Then run:

$ docker run --name my-running-varnish -v /path/to/default.vcl:/usr/local/etc/varnish/default.vcl:ro -d tripviss/varnish

Alternatively, a simple Dockerfile can be used to generate a new image that includes the necessary default.vcl (which is a much cleaner solution than the bind mount above):

FROM tripviss/varnish:5.1

COPY default.vcl /usr/local/etc/varnish/

Place this file in the same directory as your default.vcl, run docker build -t my-varnish ., then start your container:

$ docker run --name my-running-varnish -d my-varnish

$ docker run --name my-running-varnish -d -p 8080:6081 my-varnish

Then you can hit http://localhost:8080 or http://host-ip:8080 in your browser.

You can override the size of the cache:

$ docker run --name my-running-varnish -e "VARNISH_MEMORY=1G" -d my-varnish

You can pass additional parameters to the varnishd process:

$ docker run --name my-running-varnish -e "VARNISH_DAEMON_OPTS=-t 3600 -p http_req_hdr_len=16384 -p http_resp_hdr_len=16384" -d my-varnish

You can change the path of the VCL configuration file:

$ docker run --name my-running-varnish -e "VARNISH_VCL=/root/custom.vcl" -v /path/to/custom.vcl:/root/custom.vcl:ro -d my-varnish

You can also change the ports used in a Dockerfile.

FROM tripviss/varnish:5.1

ENV VARNISH_PORT 8080
ENV VARNISH_DAEMON_OPTS "additional varnish options here"
EXPOSE 8080

Or with a command:

$ docker run --name my-running-varnish -e "VARNISH_PORT=80" -d -p 80:80 my-varnish

Varnish Modules are extensions written for Varnish Cache.

To install Varnish Modules, you will need the Varnish source to compile against. This is why we install Varnish from source in this image rather than using a package manager.

Install VMODs in your Varnish project's Dockerfile. For example, the following Dockerfile would install varnish with libvmod-querystring module:

FROM tripviss/varnish:5.1

# libvmod-querystring requires libpcre available by installing libpcre3-dev
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y -q --no-install-recommends \
    libpcre3-dev

# Install Querystring Varnish module
ENV QUERYSTRING_VERSION 1.0.2
ENV QUERYSTRING_FILENAME libvmod-querystring-1.0.2.tar.gz
RUN set -xe \
    && curl -fSL "https://github.com/Dridi/libvmod-querystring/releases/download/v$QUERYSTRING_VERSION/vmod-querystring-$QUERYSTRING_VERSION.tar.gz" -o "$QUERYSTRING_FILENAME" \
    && mkdir -p /usr/local/src/libvmod-querystring \
    && tar -xzf "$QUERYSTRING_FILENAME" -C /usr/local/src/libvmod-querystring --strip-components=1 \
    && rm "$QUERYSTRING_FILENAME" \
    && cd /usr/local/src/libvmod-querystring \
    && sed -i s/-Werror/-W/ configure \
    && ./configure --with-rst2man=: \
    && make \
    && make check \
    && make install \
    && rm -r /usr/local/src/libvmod-querystring

COPY default.vcl /usr/local/etc/varnish/
ENV VARNISH_MEMORY 1G
ENV VARNISH_PORT 1900
EXPOSE 1900

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