Varnish 4

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I found this to be prescient: https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/ssl.html

I never understood the problem people have with this idea, varnish is doing things with memory a lot, a bug when it has access to the keys is a horrible nightmare.

I've taken to running an nginx instance on the same machine to terminate SSL, which then backends on to varnish.- this gives people SSL up to my doorstep.

except in cases where they're on our checkout page, then it's SSL to the server where they're submitting information. (via a different subdomian.)

I'm hosting a release party in Mexico City in case any chilangos are interested.

See http://v4party.varnish-cache.org/party/81 -- I hope a few more people come but if not pues no hay nada mal en un taco y un par de chelas.

Hope I can make it, if weather allows...

>pues no hay nada mal en un taco y un par de chelas

Seems like a weird time to switch to Spanish! But tacos and beer are always good of course.

This news is 19 days old.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7566121

Thank you. We can't catch every dupe, and this was a significant one.

I recently upgrade from version 3 to 4, please note there are several changes on the VCL.

Read carefully the upgrade docs: https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/whats-new/upgrading...

Also, despite it's not on the manual, it's worth noting that req.grace and beresp.grace were deprecated.

Somebody did us a favor and wrote a conversion script: https://github.com/fgsch/varnish3to4

Still incomplete after 14 days from the initial release. I guess the optimists talking about a 30 minutes job were wrong after all ;-)

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