Last week, elgentos organised the Varnish Taskforce meeting at the PHPro offices in Kontich (Belgium), bringing together Magento developers, hosting experts, devops engineers, and Varnish experts for two days of deep technical collaboration.

We dissected the Varnish built-in VCL, stripped legacy baggage, and rethought Magento’s Varnish integration from the start till the end. The result? A cleaner, smarter, and more configurable VCL approach, plus the new elgentos/magento2-varnish-extended extension—designed to generate VCL dynamically from Magento settings.

Highlights:

Implemented soft-purging support
Added many configuration options to dynamically generate the VCL
Leaner, modernized VCL
New VCL generator with if/else & foreach syntax
Configurable purge behavior, static/media caching, and more
VTL test suite + admin feedback on purges

Huge thanks to all attendees for the brainpower and coding skills. We’re pushing this upstream to both Magento 2 and Mage-OS. Let's make Varnish smarter, faster, cleaner for everyone.

Magento 2 × Varnish: Shaping the Future of Caching Together