bitnami-containers/bitnami/memcached

Bitnami Memcached Docker Container

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What is Memcached?

Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering.

Usage

You can instantiate a Bitnami Memcached container by doing:

CONTAINER_MEMCACHED_SERVER_NAME=memcached
docker run -it \
  --name $CONTAINER_MEMCACHED_SERVER_NAME
  bitnami/memcached

Environment variables

You can specify the MEMCACHED_PASSWORD to specify a password for your memcached server.

Linking

You can link the Memcached to a container running your application, e.g., using the Bitnami node container:

CONTAINER_MEMCACHED_LINK_NAME=memcached
docker run --rm -it \
    --link $CONTAINER_MEMCACHED_SERVER_NAME:$CONTAINER_MEMCACHED_LINK_NAME bitnami/node \
    npm start --production

Inside your application, use the value of $CONTAINER_MEMCACHED_LINK_NAME when setting the Memcached host.

Logging

The container is set up to log to stdout, which means logs can be obtained as follows:

docker logs memcached

If you would like to log to a file instead, you can mount a volume at /logs.