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Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition
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Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

by Matthias Marschall
May 2015
Intermediate to advanced
278 pages
5h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

Managing Varnish

Varnish is a web application accelerator. You install it in front of your web application to cache generated HTML files and serve them faster. It will take a lot of burden from your web application and can even provide you with extended uptime—covering up for application failures through its cache while you are fixing your application.

Let's see how to install Varnish.

Getting ready

You need a web server running on your node at port 8080. We'll set up Varnish to use localhost:8080 as its backend host and port. You can achieve this by installing a Ruby on Rails application on your node as described in the Managing Ruby on Rails applications recipe.

Make sure that you have a cookbook called my_cookbook and that the run_list of your ...

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ISBN: 9781785287947