Varnish and Docker

[Lewis, Eric]

>
> Not a big deal, since the Docker containers will presumably be for specific
> versions. It's just for the 4.x containers, the sources won't be
> necessary, at least not for building VMODs.


This is great to hear! I've put together a quick Dockerfile
<https://gist.github.com/ericandrewlewis/20d531d190d71e92f3b6> that uses
Debian packages to install the latest stable (4.0.3). On top of this, I was
able to install the example module
<https://github.com/varnish/libvmod-example> with ease.

However, other Varnish modules can't be built so easily on 4.0 yet
<https://github.com/Dridi/libvmod-querystring/issues/16>. Module authors
need to update their modules to build from the Varnish installation with
4.0 instead of from source. Perhaps we could reach out to the VMOD
developer community about this.

Until there's more support for this in modules, installing Varnish from
source seems like the best default, so users don't get burned.

Eric Lewis
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On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 4:57 AM, Geoff Simmons <geoff at uplex.de> wrote:

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> On 12/08/2015 10:33 PM, Lewis, Eric wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to solicit feedback from you and invite the Varnish
> > community to contribute to this effort.
> >
> > Most Dockerfiles install Varnish via a linux package manager,
> > which makes it impossible to install VMODs because they need to be
> > compiled against Varnish source.
>
> That's true of Varnish 3.x, but not since 4.0 -- VMODs are now built
> against a Varnish installation, which has all of the necessary headers
> and libs. It should be enough just to have pkg-config return the
> correct information for 'varnishapi', which will be the case without
> further intervention in a default Varnish installation.
>
> Not a big deal, since the Docker containers will presumably be for
> specific versions. It's just for the 4.x containers, the sources won't
> be necessary, at least not for building VMODs.
>
>
> Best,
> Geoff
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