terraform-provider-github VS cache

There's an open feature request issue for it in the provider. I'd keep your eyes on 1534 for it to be implemented, as well as give it the 'ol thumbs-up bump.

I wanted to configure GitHub Pages using terraform because this project already uses it to configure this repository. But currently, due to how GitHub provider for terraform is written, configuring Pages requires some fiddling and will not work on the first run. During my research into how I could achieve declarative configuration for Pages, I found out that GitHub recently added actions that allow deploying to Pages without additional branch. I like this new approach better and in the future I will switch to it, but for now I decided to configure Pages manually as suggested by GitHub Pages Action that we are using.

Someone hit the wrong switch at the factory: https://github.com/integrations/terraform-provider-github/releases/tag/v4.28.0

Well, there are a lot of open issues [0] with no outlook to get them ever closed.

We've had issues with branch protection rules (the same code works with old actors in the state, but new actors erroring out without any reason), organization secrets, etc.

[0]: https://github.com/integrations/terraform-provider-github/is...

https://github.com/integrations/terraform-provider-github/is...

I don't understand how this hasn't gotten more attention throughout the years. I would like to learn about why that is.

I am a big fan of Squash and Merge but it's saddening that users have to configure that by hand on a repo when they first merge a commit via the GitHub UI, as many people aren't aware or don't think about it which can lead to nasty commit histories.

Am I missing something? Am I git'ing wrong?

> with no persistent storage

There's https://github.com/actions/cache though?

Use Cache Actions: GitHub Actions provides cache actions that simplify caching implementation. The @actions/cache JavaScript library is a popular choice for managing caching in workflows. It offers flexible options for storing and retrieving cache artifacts based on keys, scopes, and paths.

GitHub maintain a set of repos called actions. One of which is called cache.

By utilizing the actions/cache action action, we implemented a strategy to store and retrieve dependencies, preventing redundant installations.

I do think it's good practice to enable caching, such that your script doesn't hit RubyGems / pip / npm / etc every time it runs.

That way at least the automation activity stays entirely within the GitHub / Azure network.

It looks like you can do that for Ruby by adding this:

https://github.com/actions/cache/blob/master/examples.md#rub...

    - uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1

➜ getting-started-with-act git:(master) act -j build WARN ⚠ You are using Apple M1 chip and you have not specified container architecture, you might encounter issues while running act. If so, try running it with '--container-architecture linux/amd64'. ⚠ [Node.js CI/build] 🚀 Start image=node:16-buster-slim [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker pull image=node:16-buster-slim platform= username= forcePull=false [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker create image=node:16-buster-slim platform= entrypoint=["tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[] [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker run image=node:16-buster-slim platform= entrypoint=["tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[] [Node.js CI/build] ☁ git clone 'https://github.com/actions/setup-node' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] ☁ git clone 'https://github.com/actions/cache' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] ☁ git clone 'https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] ⭐ Run Main actions/checkout@v3 [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker cp src=/Users/andrewevans/Documents/projects/getting-started-with-act/. dst=/Users/andrewevans/Documents/projects/getting-started-with-act [Node.js CI/build] ✅ Success - Main actions/checkout@v3 [Node.js CI/build] ⭐ Run Main Use Node.js 16.x [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker cp src=/Users/andrewevans/.cache/act/actions-setup-node@v3/ dst=/var/run/act/actions/actions-setup-node@v3/ [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker exec cmd=[node /var/run/act/actions/actions-setup-node@v3/dist/setup/index.js] user= workdir= [Node.js CI/build] 💬 ::debug::isExplicit: [Node.js CI/build] 💬 ::debug::explicit? false

You could try to find some point in the process where you can set up Actions caches with actions/cache, otherwise Container customization for Self-Hosted Runners is currently in Beta.

I would configure Github Actions cache so Docker doesn't have to compile all layers from scratch every time

In the copied example, npm caching is done via actions/cache@v2 action. But we can simplify our workflow by dropping this step and using built-in functionality for caching