A Dockerfile that produces a Docker Image for Memcached.

The master branch currently hosts Memcached 1.4.

Different versions of Memcached are located at the github repo branches.

To create the image frodenas/memcached, execute the following command on the docker-memcached folder:

$ docker build -t frodenas/memcached .

To run the image and bind to host port 11211:

$ docker run -d --name memcached -p 11211:11211 frodenas/memcached

The first time you run your container, a new user memcached with all privileges will be created with a random password. To get the password, check the logs of the container by running:

docker logs <CONTAINER_ID>

You will see an output like the following:

========================================================================
Memcached User: "memcached"
Memcached Password: "VyUXlHIlOG2gSEjX"
========================================================================

If you want to preset credentials instead of a random generated ones, you can set the following environment variables:

• MEMCACHED_USERNAME to set a specific username
• MEMCACHED_PASSWORD to set a specific password

On this example we will preset our custom username and password:

$ docker run -d \
    --name memcached \
    -p 11211:11211 \
    -e MEMCACHED_USERNAME=myusername \
    -e MEMCACHED_PASSWORD=mypassword \
    frodenas/memcached

When you run the container, it will start the Memcached without any arguments. If you want to pass any arguments, just add them to the run command:

$ docker run -d ---name memcached -p 11211:11211 frodenas/memcached -m 128

Copyright (c) 2014 Ferran Rodenas. See LICENSE for details.