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`