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Enterprise

Supported distributions

For readability, the following thematically groups the packages by sections:

Varnish
Cache Plus
Varnish
Broadcaster
Varnish
Discovery
Varnish
Custom
Statistics
Varnish
Controller
Varnish
Router
RHEL/Rocky/Alma 9
RHEL/Rocky/Alma 8
RHEL/CentOS 7 ✔¹
Ubuntu 22.04
(jammy)
Ubuntu 20.04
(focal)
Ubuntu 18.04
(bionic)
Ubuntu 16.04
(xenial)
✔²
Docker
(Debian bullseye)
Debian 12
(bookworm)
Debian 11
(bullseye)
Debian 10
(buster)
Debian 9
(stretch)
✔³

¹ Without built-in TLS and with reduced performance on backend TLS using OpenSSL 1.0. For client side TLS it is necessary to use Hitch.

² Without Memory Governor.

³ Debian 9 (stretch) is not maintained any longer. We only support it for existing installations.

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Packages

This section lists the packages available in the Varnish Enterprise repositories. Some packages are add-ons to the regular subscriptions and are not available in the default repositories, in which cases it will be specified.

All packages assume you have already followed the installation instructions for the main repository, since all packages will depend on it.

Packages names are the same across all distributions.

varnish-plus

This is the main package containing the actual Varnish Enterprise binary, with most other packages relying in on it. It comes with a large selection of essential vmods.

varnish-plus-vmods-extra

Some vmods require external dependencies (mmdb, sqlite3, etc.) and are isolated here to keep the footprint of varnish-plus minimal with few dependencies.

varnish-plus-addon-ssl

This package includes Hitch, a TLS terminator, which is useful in cases where in-process TLS cannot be used, such as on the RHEL 7.x OS. More info is here.

varnish-plus-ha

Varnish High Availability, both the deprecated legacy version and the current one live in this package.

While not a hard dependency, you will most probably need to install varnish-broadcaster along with it. If Varnish lives in a dynamic cluster, you will also need varnish-plus-discovery

varnish-plus-akamai-connector

This is an add-on.

This package contains the VCL and vmod used to synchronize Varnish and Akamai configurations as well as purges.

This is an add-on and requires access to the 60-akamai-connector repository.

varnish-plus-deviceatlas

This is an add-on.

It includes vmod_deviceatlas used for device identification.

This is an add-on and requires access to the 60-deviceatlas repository.

varnish-plus-selinux

This package is specific to RHEL and defines an SELinux policy for varnish-plus. More info on SELinux and Varnish is here.

varnish-plus-devel

This package contains development files for varnish-plus.

varnish-plus-waf

This is an add-on.

It includes the VCL and vmod used to integrate ModSecurity.

This is an add-on and requires access to the 60-waf repository.

varnish-broadcaster

The broadcaster is a server that will dispatch HTTP requests to clusters of Varnish servers. It is an integral part of VHA6 setups, but it is also used as a standalone tool to allow pre-warming and purging at scale.

For auto-scaling clusters, please see varnish-discovery too.

varnish-plus-discovery

This tool is able to list server from various sources (DNS, k8s, AWS, etc.) and write configuration files for other tools to use, such as the broadcaster.

varnish-custom-statistics

VCS collects information for the Varnish logs to create time-series aggregated at the cluster level. It is composed of a central server collecting information from agents installed on each Varnish server.

varnish-custom-statistics-agent

This is the VCS agent.

varnish-controller-agent

The varnish-controller-agent contains the agent used to manage the Varnish server in a Varnish Controller setup.

varnish-controller-brainz

The varnish-controller-brainz contains the brainz which is used to control a Varnish Controller setup.

varnish-controller-api-gw

The varnish-controller-api-gw contains the api-gw which is used to access a Varnish Controller setup via REST API.

varnish-controller-cli

The varnish-controller-cli contains the vcli which is used to manage a Varnish Controller setup via command line interface towards the Varnish Controller API-GW(s).

varnish-controller-ui

The varnish-controller-ui contains the ui which is used to manage a Varnish Controller setup via a web interface. This package also includes the UI server which the single page application talks to.

varnish-controller-nats

The varnish-controller-nats contains the nats-server which is used as the message bus between all Varnish Controller components.

varnish-controller-router

The varnish-controller-router contains the router which is used to perform DNS and HTTP 302 redirect based traffic routing.