chef-varnish-dashboard

A chef recipe for the amazing Varnish Agent Dashboard (A real time Varnish Cache metrics dashboard).

Requirements

You just need to add the varnish recipe (https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/varnish) and make sure you will install varnish 3.0 or higher by updating the attributes.rb file:

#default['varnish']['version'] = "2.1"
default['varnish']['version'] = "3.0"

What does this recipe do?

Install automatically the Varnish Agent 2 (*), a small daemon meant to communicate with Varnish and other varnish-related services to allow remote control and monitoring of Varnish
Clone the Varnish Dashboard project (from @pbruna) (**)
Execute the Varnish Agent pointing to the Dashboard project.

(*): https://github.com/varnish/vagent2 (**): https://github.com/pbruna/Varnish-Agent-Dashboard

How to use it?

Add the varnish recipe
Update the varnish version to 3.0 or higher
Add this recipe chef-varnish-dashboard
Go to http://yourproject.com:6085/html/
It will ask you for a user/pass, enter the one you defined at the attributes/default.rb file
Voila!

Tested in:

Ubuntu (precise 64)
Let me know if you try this recipe in another OS!

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