ubuntu/memcached repository overview

ubuntu/memcached is a rock for Memcached maintained by Canonical⁠.

Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system.

This image is a chiseled Ubuntu rock. It contains a minimal Memcached installation and the necessary tools to run and manage Memcached instances.

[Learn more about Memcached⁠]

⁠Tags and Architectures

NOTE: These tags follow a specific naming convention that respects the concept of channels⁠.

⁠Get started

This rock's entrypoint is Pebble, a container-optimized init process that enables the orchestration of a collection of local service processes as an organized set.

[Learn more about Pebble⁠]

⁠Inspect

To view the Pebble services⁠ and checks⁠ defined in this rock:

docker run --rm ubuntu/memcached:1.6-25.04_beta plan

⁠Run

To run this rock, use any of the usual container runtimes, for example, docker:

docker run --name memcached-container \
    -p 11211:11211 \
    ubuntu/memcached:1.6-25.04_beta

Access your Memcached server at localhost:11211

Get instance stats:

printf "stats
" | nc -q 1 -w 1 127.0.0.1 11211

Write and read a value:

printf "set my_key 0 60 11
hello world
" | nc -q 1 127.0.0.1 11211
printf "get my_key
" | nc -q 1 127.0.0.1 11211 | grep "hello world"

⁠Get logs

To view the logs of the running container, run:

docker exec memcached-container pebble logs

Or, for a specific service:

docker exec memcached-container pebble logs <service>

⁠Monitor health checks

Rocks may have predefined health checks that you can list by running:

docker exec memcached-container pebble checks

The overall health of your container can be inspected via:

docker exec memcached-container pebble health

⁠Configuration

⁠Environment variables

⁠Ports

⁠Other configuration options

[Report a bug⁠] [Contribute⁠]

Canonical is the provider of this container image. It is the user's responsibility to ensure that any use of this image complies with any relevant licenses for all software contained within, as well as with Canonical’s IP Policy⁠.