The VCL configuration file that Varnish should manage, for example "/etc/varnish/default.vcl".

(unique, required, string, no default)

Override the name of the instance that should be given to Varnish (defaults to the resource identifier).

(unique, optional, string, default "RESOURCE_ID")

Write the process's PID to the specified file. The default will include the specified name, i.e.: "/var/run/varnish_production.pid". Unlike what this help message shows, it is most likely not necessary to change this parameter.

(unique, optional, string, default "/var/run/varnishd_RESOURCE_ID.pid")

Listen on this address:port, for example "192.168.1.1:80"

(unique, optional, string, default "0.0.0.0:80")

Provide a management interface, for example "127.0.0.1:2222"

(unique, required, string, no default)

Specify a hard minimum time to live for cached documents.

(optional, integer, default 600)

Specify the name of an unprivileged user to which the child process should switch before it starts accepting connections.

(optional, string, default "varnish")

Specify the name of an unprivileged group to which the child process should switch before it starts accepting connections.

(optional, string, default "varnish")

Use the specified storage backend. Valid options are 'malloc' for memory and 'file' for a file backend.

(optional, string, default "malloc")

Specify the size of the backend. For example "1G".

(optional, string, default "1G")

Specify the backend filename if you use backend_type file. For example /var/lib/varnish/mybackend.bin

(unique, optional, string, default "/var/lib/varnish/RESOURCE_ID.bin")

Number of worker thread pools. Each pool has the minimum, maximum and timeout values configured in the thread_pool_min, thread_pool_max and thread_pool_timeout parameters

(optional, string, default "2")

Start at least min but no more than max worker threads with the specified idle timeout in each pool.

(optional, string, default "100")

Start at least min but no more than max worker threads with the specified idle timeout in each pool.

(optional, string, default "3000")

Start at least min but no more than max worker threads with the specified idle timeout in each pool.

(optional, string, default "120")

This is used to control Varnish via a CLI. It's currently only used to check the status of the running child process.

(optional, string, default "varnishadm")

Maximum number of open files (for ulimit -n)

(optional, string, default "131072")

Locked shared memory limit (for ulimit -l)

(optional, string, default "82000")

Path to a file containing a secret used for authorizing access to the management port.

(optional, string, default "/etc/varnish/secret")

Starts the resource. Suggested minimum timeout: 20s.

Stops the resource. Suggested minimum timeout: 20s.

Performs a detailed status check. Suggested minimum timeout: 20s. Suggested interval: 10s.

Performs a status check. Suggested minimum timeout: 20s.

Retrieves resource agent metadata (internal use only). Suggested minimum timeout: 5s.

Performs a validation of the resource configuration. Suggested minimum timeout: 20s.

primitive p_varnish ocf:heartbeat:varnish \


  params \


    config=string \


    mgmt_address=string \


  op monitor timeout="20s" interval="10s" depth="0" 

pcs resource create p_varnish ocf:heartbeat:varnish \


  config=string \


  mgmt_address=string \


  op monitor timeout="20s" interval="10s" OCF_CHECK_LEVEL="0"