This tutorial shows how to do initial installation Varnish Enterprise 6.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, AlmaLinux 8 and Rocky Linux 8. Looking for another platform?
Before you can start this tutorial, you should have:
Create the file /etc/yum.repos.d/varnish-software.repo
with the following contents:
[varnish-enterprise]
name=Varnish Enterprise
baseurl=https://TOKEN:@packagecloud.io/varnishplus/60/el/8/x86_64
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://TOKEN:@packagecloud.io/varnishplus/60/gpgkey
sslverify=1
sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
metadata_expire=300
Enable the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository by installing the epel-release
package:
sudo dnf install epel-release
The module stream for Varnish Cache is enabled by default and needs to be disabled:
sudo dnf module disable varnish
Install Varnish Enterprise and VMODs:
sudo dnf install varnish-plus
The configuration files for Varnish are:
/etc/varnish/default.vcl
The VCL configuration file that is loaded by default when Varnish starts. In this file you can specify the location of your web servers.
/usr/lib/systemd/system/varnish.service
The systemd unit file specifying the Varnish parameters, storage engines and the VCL configuration file to load on startup. This file should not be edited but overridden according to systemd best practices.
Varnish is started, stopped, restarted and reloaded using the following commands:
sudo systemctl start varnish
sudo systemctl stop varnish
sudo systemctl restart varnish
sudo systemctl reload varnish
Verify if Varnish is running using the following command:
sudo systemctl status -l varnish
Varnish Enterprise 6.0 has now been installed. At this point it is possible to dive in to VCL and VMODs.
VCL resources: