feat!: serve the actions cache from the runner (#1229)

Make cache requests go through the runner and remove outbound traffic from the cache server. The runner forwards them to `cache.external_server` when one is set, and attaches itself to each job network so jobs can reach it.

Benefits:

1. Jobs need no http proxy rules for the cache server, which `@actions/http-client` mishandles for CIDR ranges in `no_proxy` (https://github.com/actions/toolkit/pull/2495).
2. Only runners reach a shared cache server, which needs no route to Gitea.
3. A runner container sharing the host Docker socket now caches, where jobs previously could not reach it.

Breaks:

1. Jobs that reach `external_server` but not their runner, such as a remote `DOCKER_HOST`. The built-in cache has always needed that reachability, so both modes now agree. Set `cache.host` and `cache.port` to an address those jobs reach.
2. Jobs on `container.network: bridge`, where Docker rejects the alias, so the runner cannot attach and their cache fails as it does today. Leave `container.network` empty, or name a user-defined network.

*Written by Claude.*

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Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1229
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
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silverwindandbircni authored and bircni committed 2026-09-24 18:56:07 +00:00
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@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
"fmt"
"io"
"net/http"
"net/http/httptest"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"strings"
@@ -56,6 +57,55 @@ func TestHandler_ExternalURL(t *testing.T) {
assert.Equal(t, "http://[2001:db8::1]:8080", (&Handler{outboundIP: "2001:db8::1", port: 8080}).ExternalURL())
}
func TestHandler_Upstream(t *testing.T) {
var upstream *httptest.Server
upstream = httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
assert.Equal(t, http.MethodPut, r.Method)
assert.Equal(t, "/cache%20server"+blobPath+"/%34%32", r.URL.EscapedPath())
assert.Equal(t, "sig=opaque%2Fvalue&raw=a;b", r.URL.RawQuery)
assert.Equal(t, strings.TrimPrefix(upstream.URL, "http://"), r.Host)
assert.Equal(t, "Bearer unregistered", r.Header.Get("Authorization"))
_, err := io.Copy(w, r.Body)
assert.NoError(t, err)
}))
t.Cleanup(upstream.Close)
dir := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "artifactcache")
handler, err := StartHandler(Options{
Dir: dir,
OutboundIP: "127.0.0.1",
Upstream: upstream.URL + "/cache%20server//",
})
require.NoError(t, err)
t.Cleanup(func() { require.NoError(t, handler.Close()) })
req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(t.Context(), http.MethodPut,
handler.ExternalURL()+blobPath+"/%34%32?sig=opaque%2Fvalue&raw=a;b", strings.NewReader("cache content"))
require.NoError(t, err)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer unregistered")
resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
require.NoError(t, err)
forwarded, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
resp.Body.Close()
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, "cache content", string(forwarded))
resp, err = http.Post(handler.ExternalURL()+internalPath+"/register", "application/json", nil)
require.NoError(t, err)
resp.Body.Close()
assert.Equal(t, http.StatusNotFound, resp.StatusCode)
upstream.Close()
resp, err = http.Post(handler.ExternalURL()+cacheServiceV2Path+"/CreateCacheEntry", "application/json", strings.NewReader(`{}`))
require.NoError(t, err)
var failure map[string]string
err = json.UnmarshalRead(resp.Body, &failure)
resp.Body.Close()
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, http.StatusServiceUnavailable, resp.StatusCode)
assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{"code": "unavailable", "msg": "cache upstream is unavailable"}, failure)
assert.NoDirExists(t, dir)
}
func TestHandler(t *testing.T) {
dir := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "artifactcache")
handler, err := StartHandler(Options{Dir: dir})
@@ -1522,7 +1572,10 @@ func TestHandler_InternalAPI_AuthAndUsage(t *testing.T) {
}
assert.Equal(t, http.StatusUnauthorized, probe("via-internal-api"))
assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, post("/_internal/register", secret, `{"token":"via-internal-api","repo":"owner/repo"}`))
assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, post("/_internal/register", secret, `{"token":"via-internal-api","repo":"owner/repo","public_url":"http://runner.example","results":"https://gitea.example","insecure_tls":true}`))
cred, ok := handler.lookupCredential("via-internal-api")
require.True(t, ok)
assert.Equal(t, JobCredential{Repo: testRepo, PublicURL: "http://runner.example"}, cred)
assert.NotEqual(t, http.StatusUnauthorized, probe("via-internal-api"))
assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, post("/_internal/revoke", secret, `{"token":"via-internal-api"}`))
assert.Equal(t, http.StatusUnauthorized, probe("via-internal-api"))