Save RUN --mount=type=cache
caches on GitHub Actions or other CI platforms
The BuildKit Cache Dance allows saving RUN --mount=type=cache
caches on GitHub Actions or other CI platforms by extracting the cache from the previous build and injecting it into the current build.
Use cases:
/var/cache/apt
, /var/lib/apt
)/root/.cache/go-build
)This reproducible-containers/buildkit-cache-dance
action was forked from overmindtech/buildkit-cache-dance
(archived on September 2023). This action be used for "non-reproducible" containers too.
Dockerfile:
FROM ubuntu:22.04 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive RUN \ --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apt,sharing=locked \ --mount=type=cache,target=/var/lib/apt,sharing=locked \ rm -f /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/docker-clean && \ echo 'Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages "true";' >/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/keep-cache && \ apt-get update && \ apt-get install -y gcc
Action:
--- name: Build on: push: jobs: Build: runs-on: ubuntu-22.04 steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3 id: setup-buildx - uses: docker/metadata-action@v5 id: meta with: images: Build - name: Cache uses: actions/cache@v4 id: cache with: path: cache-mount key: cache-mount-${{ hashFiles('Dockerfile') }} - name: Restore Docker cache mounts uses: reproducible-containers/buildkit-cache-dance@v3 with: builder: ${{ steps.setup-buildx.outputs.name }} cache-dir: cache-mount dockerfile: Dockerfile skip-extraction: ${{ steps.cache.outputs.cache-hit }} - name: Build and push uses: docker/build-push-action@v5 with: context: . cache-from: type=gha cache-to: type=gha,mode=max file: Dockerfile push: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }} tags: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags }} labels: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.labels }}
Real-world examples:
If you require more fine grained control you can manually specify a JSON formatted cache-map
. The keys specify the paths on the Docker builder host to use as the bind source and the string value provides the cache mount target
within the Docker build:
- name: Restore Docker cache mounts uses: reproducible-containers/buildkit-cache-dance@v3 with: builder: ${{ steps.setup-buildx.outputs.name }} cache-map: | { "var-cache-apt": "/var/cache/apt", "var-lib-apt": "/var/lib/apt" } skip-extraction: ${{ steps.cache.outputs.cache-hit }}
Alternatively, you can provide a JSON object with additional options that should be passed to --mount=type=cache
in the values cache-map
JSON. The target
path must be present in the object as a property.
- name: Restore Docker cache mounts uses: reproducible-containers/buildkit-cache-dance@v3 with: builder: ${{ steps.setup-buildx.outputs.name }} cache-map: | { "var-cache-apt": { "target": "/var/cache/apt", "id": "1" }, "var-lib-apt": "/var/lib/apt" } skip-extraction: ${{ steps.cache.outputs.cache-hit }}
In other CI systems, you can run the script directly via node
:
curl -LJO https://github.com/reproducible-containers/buildkit-cache-dance/archive/refs/tags/v3.1.0.tar.gz tar xvf buildkit-cache-dance-3.1.0.tar.gz
During injection:
node ./buildkit-cache-dance-3.1.0/dist/index.js --cache-map '{"var-cache-apt": "/var/cache/apt", "var-lib-apt": "/var/lib/apt"}'
After build during extraction:
node ./buildkit-cache-dance-3.1.0/dist/index.js --extract --cache-map '{"var-cache-apt": "/var/cache/apt", "var-lib-apt": "/var/lib/apt"}'
Here are the available options:
build-cache-dance [options]
Save 'RUN --mount=type=cache' caches on GitHub Actions or other CI platforms
Options:
--extract Extract the cache from the docker container (extract step). Otherwise, inject the cache (main step)
--cache-map The map of actions source to container destination paths for the cache paths
--dockerfile The Dockerfile to use for the auto-discovery of cache-map. Default: 'Dockerfile'
--cache-dir The root directory where cache content is injected from/extracted to when using auto-discovery of the cache-map.
--scratch-dir Where the action is stores some temporary files for its processing. Default: 'scratch'
--skip-extraction Skip the extraction of the cache from the docker container
--builder The name of the buildx builder. Default: 'default'
--help Show this help
v1 follows the original design of overmindtech/buildkit-cache-dance
.
v1 is composed of two actions:
reproducible-containers/buildkit-cache-dance/inject@v1.0.1
reproducible-containers/buildkit-cache-dance/extract@v1.0.1
See the releases/v1
branch.
v2 is composed of the single reproducible-containers/buildkit-cache-dance
action.
Rewrote the action in TypeScript and adds support for cache-map
that gets a string of files that need to be injected as a JSON string. This makes it possible to inject multiple directories in one call and simplifies the usage.
This release also makes it possible to run the script outside GitHub Actions in other CI platforms or locally using command line arguments.
overmindtech/buildkit-cache-dance
.RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo
HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4