Installing Memcached

Memcached is a popular high-performance, memory-based cache server. We are going to use Memcached and the PyMemcacheCache Memcached backend.

Installing the Memcached Docker image

Run the following command from the shell to pull the Memcached Docker image:

docker pull memcached:1.6.26

This will download the Memcached Docker image to your local machine. You can find more information about the official Memcached Docker image at https://hub.docker.com/_/memcached. If you don’t want to use Docker, you can also download Memcached from https://memcached.org/downloads.

Run the Memcached Docker container with the following command:

docker run -it --rm --name memcached -p 11211:11211 memcached:1.6.26 -m 64

Memcached runs on port 11211 by default. The -p option is used to publish the 11211 port to the same host interface port. The -m option is used to limit the memory for the container to 64 MB. Memcached runs in memory, and it is allotted...