ubuntu/memcached Docker Image

ubuntu/memcached is a rock for Memcached maintained by https://canonical.com/.

Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system.

This image is a ***ed Ubuntu rock. It contains a minimal Memcached installation and the necessary tools to run and manage Memcached instances.

\https://memcached.org/\]

Tags and Architectures

NOTE: These tags follow a specific naming convention that respects the concept of channels.

View deprecated tags

Tags		Support ended on	Upgrade Path
1.6-25.04_beta	aliases 1.6-25.04_edge, edge, latest	01/2026	-
1.6-24.10_beta	aliases 1.6-24.10_edge	07/2025	-
1.6-23.10_beta	aliases 1.6-23.10_edge	07/2024	-
1.6-23.04_beta	aliases 1.6-23.04_edge	01/2024	-
1.6-22.10_beta	aliases 1.6-22.10_edge	07/2023	-
1.6-21.10_beta	aliases 1.6-21.10_edge	07/2022	-
1.6-21.04_beta	aliases 1.6-21.04_edge	01/2022	-
1.5-20.04_beta	aliases 1.5-20.04_edge	05/2025	-

Get started

This rock's entrypoint is Pebble, a container-optimized init process that enables the orchestration of a collection of local service processes as an organized set.

\https://documentation.ubuntu.com/pebble/\]

Inspect

To view the https://documentation.ubuntu.com/rockcraft/en/latest/reference/rockcraft-yaml/#services and https://documentation.ubuntu.com/rockcraft/latest/reference/rockcraft-yaml/#checks defined in this rock:

sh
docker run --rm ubuntu/memcached:1.6-25.04_beta plan

Run

To run this rock, use any of the usual container runtimes, for example, docker:

sh
docker run --name memcached-container \
    -p 11211:11211 \
    ubuntu/memcached:1.6-25.04_beta

Access your Memcached server at localhost:11211

Get instance stats:

bash
printf "stats
" | nc -q 1 -w 1 127.0.0.1 11211

Write and read a value:

bash
printf "set my_key 0 60 11
hello world
" | nc -q 1 127.0.0.1 11211
printf "get my_key
" | nc -q 1 127.0.0.1 11211 | grep "hello world"

Get logs

To view the logs of the running container, run:

sh
docker exec memcached-container pebble logs

Or, for a specific service:

sh
docker exec memcached-container pebble logs <service>

Monitor health checks

Rocks may have predefined health checks that you can list by running:

sh
docker exec memcached-container pebble checks

The overall health of your container can be inspected via:

sh
docker exec memcached-container pebble health

Configuration

Environment variables

Ports

Other configuration options

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