This feature is experimental: expect things to break and documentation to be innacurate and change inadvertantly. Use at your own risks.
Varnish Official documentation
Commands
- devops varnish start
- Start Varnish if stopped
- devops varnish stop
- Stop Varnish if started
- devops varnish reload
- Reload Varnish, reload the configuration and perform a graceful restart
- devops varnish restart
- Restart Varnish, reload the configuration (but kills existing connection)
Configuration
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configuration:
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varnish:
- admin_listen_address: 127.0.0.1
- admin_listen_port: 6082
- listen_address: no default value
- listen_port: 6081
- max_threads: 1000
- min_threads: 1
- secret_file: /etc/varnish/secret
- storage_file: /var/lib/varnish/$INSTANCE/varnish_storage.bin
- storage_size: 256M
- storage_type: malloc
- thread_timeout: 120
- ttl: 120
- vcl_conf: /etc/varnish/default.vcl
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varnish:
- admin_listen_address string
- Telnet admin interface listen address, usually only bind localhost IP address for the admin interface.
- Default:
127.0.0.1 - admin_listen_port integer
- Telnet admin interface listen port.
- Default:
6082 - listen_address string
- Blank address means all IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces, otherwise specify a host name, an IPv4 dotted quad.
- listen_port integer
- Listen port.
- Default:
6081 - max_threads integer
- The maximum number of worker threads to start.
- Default:
1000 - min_threads integer
- The minimum number of worker threads to start.
- Default:
1 - secret_file string
- File containing administration secret.
- Default:
/etc/varnish/secret - storage_file string
- Storage file, only used if storage_type is file.
- Default:
/var/lib/varnish/$INSTANCE/varnish_storage.bin - storage_size string
- Cache size: in bytes, optionally using k / M / G / T suffix.
- Default:
256M - storage_type string
- Store objects either in memory (malloc), on in a file (file).
- Default:
malloc - thread_timeout integer
- Idle timeout for worker threads.
- Default:
120 - ttl integer
- Default TTL used when the backend does not specify one.
- Default:
120 - vcl_conf string
- Main configuration file.
- Default:
/etc/varnish/default.vcl