Real quickly I wanted to post to show how one can configure Beaker for session management using Memcached as the session storage. It took me a minute and a few searches to put it all together, so hopefully this will help someone searching the web.

SESSION_OPTS = {
   "session.type": "ext:memcached",
   "session.cookie_expires": 14400,
   "session.auto": True,
   "session.url": "127.0.0.1:11211",
   "session.lock_dir": os.path.join(SESSION_PATH, "lock"),
   "session.data_dir": os.path.join(SESSION_PATH, "data")
}

I’m still not sure if the lock and data directories are needed, and this example only shows connecting to a single, localhost Memcached server. Just the same it will help me remember how to do it in the future. Cheers, and happy coding!