Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache

geerlingguy•2 days ago

This is the first I've actually heard of the name change... I used to use Varnish quite a bit, and had a decent grasp of VCL, for Drupal deployments. But I think Varnish 6 or 7 was when I started dropping off managing the caching layer as almost every project chose to offload caching to Cloudflare.

captn3m0•2 days ago

This is helpful, but it is yet to be seen how downstream picks it up. Wikidata[0] has renamed it and marked the Vinyl repo as the preferred one. Gentoo[1] renamed the package and switched to Vinyl. Homebrew[2] is now tracking Varnish Software (downstream of Vinyl). Fedora[3] has switched to Varnish Software as well. At endoflife.date[5], we renamed to vinyl and switched tracking as well. Wikipedia[6] has renamed Varnish (Software) -> Vinyl Cache.

[0]: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1602447

[1]: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=679937b...

[2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/273280

[3]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/varnish/c/59f403810b746e0...

[4]: https://repology.org/project/varnish/packages

[5]: https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/pull/9792

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_Cache

hannibalhorn•2 days ago

Did not know this had happened, but does seem PHK (the original author of Varnish) is now with of the Vinyl Cache project, so this is not just a typical fork.

willjp•2 days ago

I appreciate the mysql/mariadb comparison.

nesarkvechnep•2 days ago

It finally made it click for me.

wmf•2 days ago

What's the deal with Antirez and PHK refusing to add TLS support?

phkamp•2 days ago

I'm not "refusing to add TLS support" I insist that the certificate is safely isolated in a separate process for security reasons. There are many ways to skin that cat.

captn3m0•2 days ago

Aside: Loved your bit talking about money and varnish in Gift Community[1]. And thanks for the Beerware License, I've started using it!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOn-L3tGKw0

lofaszvanitt•2 days ago

Varnish Enterprise has https support.

perbu•2 days ago

the whole point of varnish software keeping a public version of "vinyl cache" as "varnish cache" with TLS is to give people a way to access a FOSS version with native TLS.

I think TLS is table-stakes now, and has been for the last 10 years, at least.

time4tea•2 days ago

just use the tool that does the job.

TLS in -> hitch or caddy Cache -> varnish/vinyl TLS out -> haproxy

Connect them up with Unix sockets, if you like.

lofaszvanitt•2 days ago

Terminate tls and you have your cache.

Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache

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