Memcached 1.6 Ubuntu 24.04

Memcached 1.6 on Ubuntu 24.04 by cloudimg

Memcached 1.6 is the high-performance, distributed in-memory key-value cache used by Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, YouTube, GitHub, Reddit, and Wikipedia to accelerate dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. Built on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS noble for Microsoft Azure and maintained by cloudimg.

What's Included

• Memcached 1.6.x from the Ubuntu 24.04 noble main APT repository, compiled with --enable-sasl
• memcached.service auto-starting on boot, listening on 127.0.0.1:11211
• memcached-firstboot.service generating a per-VM SASL user (cloudimg) and password at first boot
• SASL PLAIN authentication required for all clients (binary protocol). Anonymous and ASCII-protocol connections are rejected
• libmemcached-tools (memcstat, memcset, memcget, memcrm, memccp, memcdump) for command-line testing
• Default cache size 64 MB, max connections 1024 (tuned via -m and -c in /etc/memcached.conf)
• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base with the latest security patches
• 24/7 cloudimg support with guaranteed 24 hour response SLA

Why Choose cloudimg?

• 24/7 Expert Support with guaranteed 24 hour response. Contact support@cloudimg.co.uk
• Production Ready from Launch Pre-configured, security-patched, validated end-to-end
• Azure Native Integration Azure Linux Agent, cloud-init, Gen2 Hyper-V, TrustedLaunch
• Per VM Password Rotation Every deployed VM generates a fresh hex SASL password at first boot. No two VMs share credentials.

Recommended Virtual Machine Sizes

• Standard_B2s (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM) for dev, test, and small caches up to ~3 GB
• Standard_E4s_v5 (4 vCPU, 32 GB RAM) for production caches up to ~28 GB usable
• Standard_E16s_v5 (16 vCPU, 128 GB RAM) for large production caches and session stores