SearchWelcome to chapter 7, we’ve come a long way. Up until this point, we’ve introduced you to the core concepts of Varnish, and a lot of functional aspects.
One could say that most of the content catered to the needs of developers so far: getting objects into the cache, deciding when not to, and evicting them when necessary.
But when we talk about running content delivery services at scale, getting started with VCL is the easy part. Making sure both your Varnish servers and the origin remain stable, despite millions of requests hitting your platform, that is the real challenge.
In this chapter, we’ll switch to a more operational point of view, and focus on other responsibilities. Responsibilities that are more in the wheelhouse of system administrators and IT operations. Dare I say DevOps?
We’ll be covering topics like security, high availability, load balancing, monitoring, storage, encryption, deployments, and much more.
Enjoy the ride!