Enabling & disabling cache types in Magento

Magento has lots of caching going on, and they are stored either in the var/cache directory, or in an external database such as Redis.

If we type:

bin/magento cache:status

We’ll see the many different caches available in Magento.

The config cache stores the result of the entire Magento system configuration, after an advanced XML merging process goes on behind the scenes. A similar process happens for the layout cache, which stores the result of page layouts defined with XML. The block_html cache stores some results after the merging of many PHTML files. And th...