act: actions/cache@v2 error: Cache Service Url not found, unable to restore cache

I am not sure how the cache is meant to work with nektos/act, but when working around bug #257, the cache will always throw a cache-hit=false with the following errors:

☁  git clone 'https://github.com/actions/cache' # ref=v2
🐳  docker cp src=/home/grische/.cache/act/actions-cache@v2 dst=/actions/
❓   ::save-state name=CACHE_KEY::Linux-2b7ee04efeb2a8c4ea27558750b1c2dee27f1692a30af56727638c98655a2410
💬  ::debug::Resolved Keys:
💬  ::debug::["Linux-2b7ee04efeb2a8c4ea27558750b1c2dee27f1692a30af56727638c98655a2410"]
💬  ::debug::Checking zstd --version
💬  ::debug::*** zstd command line interface 64-bits v1.3.3, by Yann Collet ***
💬  ::debug::getCacheEntry - Attempt 1 of 2 failed with error: Cache Service Url not found, unable to restore cache.
💬  ::debug::getCacheEntry - Attempt 2 of 2 failed with error: Cache Service Url not found, unable to restore cache.
| [warning]getCacheEntry failed: Cache Service Url not found, unable to restore cache.
⚙  ::set-output:: cache-hit=false

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Created 4 years ago
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Fix GH Actions in act act is a tool that let's users test GitHub Actions on a local machine, but it doesn't support caching at the moment. https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/285#issuecomment-987550... — committed to Smart123s/FastLogin by Smart123s 2 years ago
Fix GH Actions in act act is a tool that let's users test GitHub Actions on a local machine, but it doesn't support caching at the moment. https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/285#issuecomment-987550... — committed to Smart123s/FastLogin by Smart123s 2 years ago

Most upvoted comments

If you are using nektos/act to develop GHA workflows locally and want to get actions/cache working so that you can get faster feedback when you test-run on your changes to GHA workflow yaml files;

#329 is a dead end. Do not bother reading the long thread.
- It is mostly about artifact upload/download actions, not cache actions.
Disable cache actions with if: ${{ !env.ACT }}
Use act’s --reuse flag.

I will repeat that last step, because it is a much better solution than trying to get the cache action working locally;

Use act’s `--reuse` flag

From the docs; -r, --reuse reuse action containers to maintain state

Cache saving and restoring becomes unnecessary.

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BevanR on Dec 19, 2021

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BevanR on Dec 7, 2021

Use act’s --reuse flag.

I will repeat that last step, because it is a much better solution than trying to get the cache action working locally;

As @netaskd as informed us, this only works if each job has the same jobs.{id}.name: value, which, as you may expect, not ideal. It would be nice if --reuse reused the container for the whole workflow.

It seems --reuse keys on jobs.{id}.name for reuse.

guice on Jan 4, 2022

@BevanR in this case we have to set name: field the same for each jobs, that uses actions/cache. Otherwise it does not work…

netaskd on Dec 19, 2021

I guess this can be tracked as part of #329

grische on Jan 18, 2021

Any progress on this? seems to be linked to #329

benwinding on Sep 30, 2020