Memcached

High-performance distributed memory object caching system for speeding up dynamic web applications by reducing database load.

Port	11211
Registry	ghcr.io/daemonless/memcached
Source	https://github.com/memcached/memcached
Website	https://memcached.org/

Version Tags

Tag	Description	Best For
latest / pkg	FreeBSD Quarterly. Uses stable, tested packages.	Most users — recommended.
pkg-latest	FreeBSD Latest. Rolling package updates.	Staying current.

Prerequisites

Before deploying, ensure your host environment is ready. See the Quick Start Guide for host setup instructions.

Deployment

Podman Compose

services:
  memcached:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/memcached:latest"
    container_name: memcached
    environment:
      - PUID=1000  # User ID for the application process
      - PGID=1000  # Group ID for the application process
      - TZ=UTC  # Timezone for the container
      - MEMCACHED_ARGS=  # Additional memcached command-line arguments
    ports:
      - "11211:11211"
    # always (not unless-stopped) so FreeBSD's podman rc.d auto-starts it at boot
    restart: always

Save as compose.yaml, then run podman-compose up -d.

AppJail Director

.env:

# .env

DIRECTOR_PROJECT=memcached
PUID=1000
PGID=1000
TZ=UTC
MEMCACHED_ARGS=

appjail-director.yml:

# appjail-director.yml

options:
  - virtualnet: ':<random> default'
  - nat:
services:
  memcached:
    name: memcached
    options:
      - container: 'args:--pull'
      - expose: '11211:11211 proto:tcp'
    oci:
      user: root
      environment:
        - PUID: !ENV '${PUID}'
        - PGID: !ENV '${PGID}'
        - TZ: !ENV '${TZ}'
        - MEMCACHED_ARGS: !ENV '${MEMCACHED_ARGS}'

Makejail:

# Makejail

ARG tag=latest

OPTION container=boot
OPTION overwrite=force
OPTION from=ghcr.io/daemonless/memcached:${tag}

Save the files above, then run appjail-director up.

Warning

Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the jail's IPv4 address or hostname assigned by the virtual network.

To avoid exposing ports, just remove the expose option in your appjail-director.yml or from your command-line arguments.

Podman CLI

podman run -d --name memcached \
  -p 11211:11211 \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -e MEMCACHED_ARGS= \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/memcached:latest

Save as run.sh, then run sh run.sh.

AppJail

appjail oci run -Pd \
  -o overwrite=force \
  -o container="args:--pull" \
  -o virtualnet=":<random> default" \
  -o nat \
  -o expose="11211:11211 proto:tcp" \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -e MEMCACHED_ARGS= \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/memcached:latest memcached

Save the files above, then run sh run.sh.

Warning

Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the jail's IPv4 address or hostname assigned by the virtual network.

To avoid exposing ports, just remove the expose option in your appjail-director.yml or from your command-line arguments.

Bastille

Warning

Bastille's OCI support is experimental. It requires buildah and shares the host network stack (inherit). Mount volumes with --volume HOST JAIL; without it, image-declared volumes are stored under ${bastille_volumesdir}/${jail}.

services:
  memcached:
    name: memcached
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/memcached:latest"
    network:
      - mode: host
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=UTC
      - MEMCACHED_ARGS=

Save as bastille-compose.yml, then run bastille up. Or via CLI:

bastille create -O \
  --env PUID=1000 \
  --env PGID=1000 \
  --env TZ=UTC \
  --env MEMCACHED_ARGS= \
  memcached ghcr.io/daemonless/memcached:latest inherit

Ansible

- name: Deploy memcached
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: memcached
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/memcached:latest"
    state: started
    restart_policy: always
    env:
      PUID: "1000"
      PGID: "1000"
      TZ: "UTC"
      MEMCACHED_ARGS: ""
    ports:
      - "11211:11211"

Save as memcached-deploy.yaml, then run ansible-playbook memcached-deploy.yaml.

Parameters

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
PUID	1000	User ID for the application process
PGID	1000	Group ID for the application process
TZ	UTC	Timezone for the container
MEMCACHED_ARGS	``	Additional memcached command-line arguments

Ports

Port	Protocol	Description
11211	TCP	Memcached TCP port

Architectures: amd64 User: bsd (UID/GID via PUID/PGID, defaults to 1000:1000) Base: FreeBSD 15.1

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