miltalex/docker-ubuntu-varnish

Deploy Ubuntu 16.04 and Varnish with Docker

Deploy Ubuntu 14.04 and Varnish with Docker

Setup the IP for the docker container

This will be the IP address which will serve the back-end "varnished".

sudo  ifconfig en1 alias 192.168.1.200/24 up

Varnish environment variables

Varnish will make of the following environment variables.

VARNISH_BACKEND_PORT 80
VARNISH_BACKEND_IP 192.168.1.213
VARNISH_BACKEND_IP_1 192.168.1.2
VARNISH_PORT 80

Pre-Built image

You can use the pre-built image. After the docker pull, there is no need to run the command again, the image will be on your machine.

$ sudo docker pull miltiadisalexis/ubuntu-varnish

Build Image

You can easily build the image.

$ cd ubuntu-varnish
$ sudo docker build miltiadisalexis/ubuntu-varnish .

How to run the container

The container will be an ubuntu image with the varnish application.

$ sudo docker run -i -t -p 192.168.1.200:80:80 -e VARNISH_BACKEND_IP=192.168.1.215 -e VARNISH_BACKEND_IP_1=192.168.1.211 miltiadisalexis/ubuntu-varnish /start.sh

Access the bash

If you want to enter in the container with root permissions.

$ sudo docker run -i -t -p 192.168.1.200:80:80 -e VARNISH_BACKEND_IP=192.168.1.215 -e VARNISH_BACKEND_IP_1=192.168.1.211 miltiadisalexis/ubuntu-varnish bash

Stop the container

If only one instance of this container is running this command will stop it:

$ sudo docker stop `sudo docker ps |grep miltiadisalexis/ubuntu-varnish |cut -d\  -f1`