# The Varnish Tutorial

This section covers the Varnish basics in a tutorial form. It will cover what Varnish is and how it works. It also covers how to get Varnish up and running. After this section you probably would want to continue with the users guide (The Varnish Users Guide).

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- Varnish: The beef in the sandwich
- How Varnish works
- Caching with Varnish
- Content Composition with Varnish
- Content Policy with Varnish
- Varnish is general purpose
- Starting Varnish
- Put Varnish on port 80
- Restarting Varnish again
- Backend servers
- Peculiarities
- Now what?