Deploying Apache Traffic Server

Apache Traffic Server is a high capacity, high performance, caching HTTP proxy server. As such, it has many, some would say too many, bells and whistles that can be tuned. This presentation will try to dispel some of this fear, and show that in most cases, configuration Traffic Server is really straight forward. We will also briefly show the audience how to compile and install Traffic Server from source, which unfortunately is necessary until we get common distributions to pick it up and prepare binary distributions.

We will present several typical use cases for Apache TS, and show exactly, with demonstrations, how you would go ahead to configure the system. The typical use cases we will examine include

• Serving static content, typically out of cache
• Managing connections, typically for dynamic content
• Forward and transparent proxy

In addition to these common configurations, we will also introduce some of the more advanced Traffic Server features. These include

• Clustering for distributed configuration and caches (very cool!)
• Cache configurations and management
• Monitoring tools and tricks.
• Tips for some plugins that are very useful.

After attending this presentation, the audience will be able to deploy and configure Traffic Server for the most common tasks where you would deploy a caching proxy server.