[4.1] b6b3883 Short introduction to VMOD backends in 4.1 changes

Dridi Boukelmoune dridi.boukelmoune at gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 15:54:56 CEST 2015


commit b6b3883049f32f55cbe8c3151540bfddb8006a03
Author: Dridi Boukelmoune <dridi.boukelmoune at gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 27 12:41:19 2015 +0200

    Short introduction to VMOD backends in 4.1 changes

diff --git a/doc/sphinx/whats-new/changes.rst b/doc/sphinx/whats-new/changes.rst
index 4a948ca..7b6eeba 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx/whats-new/changes.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx/whats-new/changes.rst
@@ -94,7 +94,11 @@ in ``vcl_recv`` to see if traffic came in over the HTTP listening socket
 VMOD backends
 =============
 
-Not yet documented.
+Before Varnish 4.1, backends could only be declared in native VCL. Varnish 4.0
+moved directors from VCL to VMODs, and VMODs can now also create backends. It
+is possible to both create the same backends than VCL but dynamically, or
+create backends that don't necesserally speak HTTP/1 over TCP to fetch
+resources. More details in the :ref:`ref-writing-a-director` documentation.
 
 
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