Installs and configures Varnish HTTP Accelerator. Varnish is installed from the [varnish-cache.org] repos to ensure the most up to date stable release is available. All aspects of the software can be tuned using the attributes available within the cookbook.

Chef 0.10.0 or higher required (for Chef environment use).

• Debian, Ubuntu
• CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora

The following Opscode cookbooks are dependencies:

• apt | yum

Available attributes and default values:

• node['varnish']['daemon_config'] = "/etc/sysconfig/varnish"
• node['varnish']['config_dir'] = "/etc/varnish"
• node['varnish']['VARNISH_VCL_CONF'] = "/etc/varnish/default.vcl"
• node['varnish']['VARNISH_LISTEN_PORT'] = 6081
• node['varnish']['VARNISH_BACKEND_PORT'] = 80
• node['varnish']['VARNISH_BACKEND_ADDRESS'] = "127.0.0.1"
• node['varnish']['VARNISH_ADMIN_LISTEN_ADDRESS'] = "127.0.0.1"
• node['varnish']['VARNISH_ADMIN_LISTEN_PORT'] = 6082
• node['varnish']['VARNISH_SECRET_FILE'] = "/etc/varnish/secret"
• node['varnish']['VARNISH_MIN_THREADS'] = 1
• node['varnish']['VARNISH_MAX_THREADS'] = 1000
• node['varnish']['VARNISH_THREAD_TIMEOUT'] = 120
• node['varnish']['VARNISH_STORAGE_FILE'] = "/var/lib/varnish/varnish_storage.bin"
• node['varnish']['VARNISH_STORAGE_SIZE'] = "1G"
• node['varnish']['VARNISH_STORAGE'] = "malloc" # file | malloc | persistent
• node['varnish']['VARNISH_TTL'] = 120

Adds the varnish-cache.org repository to apt or yum depending upon the base platform. Then installs the latest 3.* build of Varnish applying configuration based on the attributes defined within the recipe.

Author:: Alistair Stead ([email protected])

Copyright 2012, Inviqa

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