How Nexcess Cloud clients can enable Varnish, a web application accelerator for static images.
Your Client Portal login credentials. If you cannot locate them, click Forgot Password? on the login page.
An existing Nexcess Cloud Magento 2 account. See How to create Nexcess Cloud accounts for more information.
Login credentials and admin access to your Magento 2 store.
Log in to your Client Portal. From the home page, click Plans 
From the home page, click your desired Magento cloud service. 
Select Menu > Containers. 
In the Varnish section on the Containers page, click Enable.
Choose your plan, then click Enable. If you are unsure of which plan to choose, contact our sales team between 9 a.m.–5 p.m. eastern time (ET), Monday through Friday. 
Allow a few moments for setup to complete, then note the hostname and port information for use in Steps 2E–2F. 
php bin/magento deploy:mode:showSee the Magento 2 documentation for information about changing modes.
Log in to your Magento 2 admin panel. To do this from your Client Portal, select Menu > Environment, then click App Admin.
Select Stores < Configuration.
Scroll down and select Advanced > System.
Select Full Page Cache. In Caching Application, clear the Use system value check box, then select Varnish Cache (Recommended).
Under Varnish Configuration, in the Backend host field, enter the hostname you were provided in Step 1F. In the Backend port field, enter one of the ports provided in the same step.
Click Save Config.
To verify the proper flushing of your cache, issue the following, but replace ENDPOINT and PORT with the indicated values.
php bin/magento setup:config:set --http-cache-hosts=ENDPOINT:PORT
Using the information from Step 2F as an example, the command would be:
php bin/magento setup:config:set --http-cache-hosts=us-midwest-1.nxcli.net:1383
php bin/magento cache:status
php bin/magento cache:enable full_page
If you need to purge the Varnish page cache for your site you can do so in the performance menu tab of the portal.
Then click on the Purge Cache button which will clear the NGNIX micro-cache and the Varnish page cache.
php bin/magento cache:clean
php bin/magento cache:purge
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