SearchVarnish Cache Plus
The Varnish Plus offering has Varnish Cache Plus in its core, and most other components interact with it in one way or another. It is recommended that you install this first, but some other components (like the Varnish Administration Console) can be installed independently of Varnish Cache plus.
When you sign up for Varnish Cache Plus you will get a welcome letter with the necessary information to install Varnish Cache Plus.
The letter will include a token that will be unique to your account, so it will
be represented as TOKEN in this guide.
Installing Varnish Cache Plus is basically a two step process:
Customers who cannot locate their user name and password should contact support@varnish-software.com.
Varnish Cache Plus is distributed in prepackaged form for the most common Linux operating system distributions.
The list of supported distributions are:
Legacy versions have different sets of supported platforms.
Varnish Cache Plus is supported on 64bit systems with Intel or AMD processors (x64).
To use our Varnish Plus repositories, put the following in /etc/yum.repos.d/varnish-6.0-plus.repo:
[varnish-plus-60]
name=varnish-plus-60
baseurl=https://TOKEN:@packagecloud.io/varnishplus/60/el/$releasever/$basearch
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
On RHEL/CentOS 8 only, you need to disable the varnish dnf module
dnf -y module disable varnish
You can then enable the epel-release repository providing some required
dependencies before installing the varnish-plus package:
yum install -y epel-release
yum install -y varnish-plus
Packages in our repositories are signed and distributed via HTTPS. You need to enable HTTPS support in the package manager and install our public key first:
apt-get install -y apt-transport-https
curl -L https://TOKEN:@packagecloud.io/varnishplus/60/gpgkey | apt-key add -
To use our Varnish Plus repositories, put the following in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/varnish-6.0-plus.list:
# be sure to replace "DIST" with "ubuntu" or "debian", and "RELEASE" with
# "xenial", "bionic" or "stretch" depending on your exact platform
# Varnish Cache Plus 6.0 and VMODs
deb https://TOKEN:@packagecloud.io/varnishplus/60/DIST/ RELEASE main
If you are using Debian 9.0 (stretch) put the following in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sources.list:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main
Finish by updating the apt database and installing the varnish-plus package:
apt-get update
apt-get install -y varnish-plus
In 6.0 many Varnish modules (VMODs) are embedded in the varnish-plus
package, and no extra installation is required.
Modules with third-party package dependencies (libcurl, libmemcached) are
available in a separate package called varnish-plus-vmods-extra. This
package is not installed by default.
The source code for some of these VMODs are available at https://github.com/varnish/varnish-modules/.