Varnish 7.5 Docker container

A Docker container with Varnish 7.5 built on top of Debian 11

Varnish 7.5 Docker container

Debian 11

Varnish 7.5

Usage

You'll need a custom vcl file and a Varnish secret file to use this container. You can either (re)build the image with those files or you can mount a host directory when running the container.

docker run -d \
  -v SOME_HOST_DIRECTORY_WITH_VARNISH_FILES:/etc/varnish \
  --env 'VARNISH_PARAMS=-p pipe_timeout=1440 -p syslog_cli_traffic=off -p feature=+esi_ignore_https' \
  --env 'VARNISH_STORAGE=malloc,1G' \
  --name cs2agvarnish \
  -p 8080:80 \
  -p 8081:6082 \
  cs2ag/varnish:v7.5

Environmental variables

You can configure Varnish daemon by passing following environment variables with docker run command:

VARNISH_PARAMS -p pipe_timeout=1440 -p syslog_cli_traffic=off -p feature=+esi_ignore_https
VARNISH_STORAGE malloc,1G

Mounting host directory

You can mount a host directory which contains at least the vcl and the secrect file. The files must have the following names:

default.vcl

secret

-v /srv/www/varnish_config:/etc/varnish

Exposing ports

The following ports can be exposed in order to use Varnish on container host:

80 Varnish port 6082 Varnish admin port

Reload varnish vcl file

docker container exec CONTAINER_NAME '/usr/sbin/varnishreload'

Author

• Peter Misinsky (github@cs2.ch)

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