Cache function runtime base image layers between builds - #304
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe project and render commands now configure a default function base-image cache directory. The project builder passes it to function builds, which cache runtime base image layers on disk. ChangesFunction base-image caching
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR speeds builds by reusing runtime image layers from a local cache. If the per-user cache location is unavailable, the predictable temporary fallback may expose cached image-layer data to other local users or processes; this is bounded low-severity risk and should have explicit owner awareness or follow-up. Suggested reviewers: Important Pre-merge checks failedPlease resolve all errors before merging. Addressing warnings is optional. ❌ Failed checks (1 error)
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Full details: Breaking ChangesExplanation No breaking change condition is present. The diff against origin/main changes five files under cmd/** and no files under apis/**; it contains 17 additions and zero deletions. The command changes only pass a base-image cache option and add help text. No public field or flag is removed, renamed, or added as required, and no command behavior is removed. Full details: Feature Gate RequirementExplanation The PR adds a new, default-on base-image caching feature without a feature flag. The diff adds Resolution Add a feature-flag implementation for the base-image cache. Add a cache-specific configuration field or CLI flag, integrate it with the existing feature configuration/maturity mechanism, and make all four command paths enable the cache only when that flag is enabled. Preserve the empty-directory path to disable caching, and document the default and opt-in behavior.
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In `@internal/project/functions/kcl.go`:
- Line 156: Update the cache.Image setup in the image handling flow so
filesystem errors from cache reads or writes are non-fatal and fall back to the
remote layer; preserve normal cache hits and misses. Add a regression test
covering an unwritable or full cache directory, or remove the existing non-fatal
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In the go-containerregistry library (v0.21.9), the FilesystemCache is a primary implementation of the Cache interface located in the pkg/v1/cache package, designed to store container image layers on the local filesystem [1][2]. Get Method The Get(h v1.Hash) method attempts to retrieve a layer from the cache directory using its hash [1][2]. It typically uses tarball.LayerFromFile to load the layer from the cached file [1][2]. If the file does not exist, it returns a cache miss, commonly signaled by the ErrNotFound error [1][2]. Put Method The Put(l v1.Layer) method is used to store a layer in the cache [1][2]. It employs a lazy writing strategy: 1. It does not immediately write the entire layer content to disk [1][2]. 2. Instead, it returns a wrapped layer structure [1][2]. 3. The actual write operation occurs only when the layer's Compressed or Uncompressed methods are invoked by the caller [1][2]. 4. It utilizes io.TeeReader to stream layer data to a file on the filesystem simultaneously while it is being read [1][2]. The filename is derived from the layer's hash (digest or diffID) [1][2]. This caching mechanism allows for efficient, on-demand population of a local disk cache when layers are consumed, such as during image pulls or writes [3][4].
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- 1: https://readmex.com/en-US/google/go-containerregistry/page-5.5659b591c-9306-45ec-b433-ba036c38b990
- 2: https://readmex.com/google/go-containerregistry/page-5.5659b591c-9306-45ec-b433-ba036c38b990
- 3: GitHub pull request 458 in google/go-containerregistry (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 4: GitHub issue 325 in google/go-containerregistry (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
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- 2: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/google/go-containerregistry/pkg/v1
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- 1: GitHub issue 1821 in google/go-containerregistry (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
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- 3: GitHub issue 950 in google/go-containerregistry (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
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Make cache failures non-fatal before enabling this wrapper.
When cacheDir is configured, cache.Image returns non-ErrNotFound errors from Get, and returns the wrapped layer from Put without handling filesystem errors during Compressed or Uncompressed. A read-only or full cache directory can therefore fail the image write instead of using the remote layer, which contradicts the comment at internal/project/functions/kcl.go:154. If cache failures must remain non-fatal, add an explicit fallback and a regression test for an unwritable cache directory. Otherwise, remove the fallback claim.
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In `@internal/project/functions/kcl.go` at line 156, Update the cache.Image setup
in the image handling flow so filesystem errors from cache reads or writes are
non-fatal and fall back to the remote layer; preserve normal cache hits and
misses. Add a regression test covering an unwritable or full cache directory, or
remove the existing non-fatal fallback claim if that behavior is not intended.
The comment added with the cache claimed a fallback that go-containerregistry does not provide. Two paths make a bad cache fatal: cache.Image returns any Get error that is not ErrNotFound (pkg/v1/cache/cache.go), and the filesystem cache creates its backing file lazily inside Compressed, so an unwritable or full directory surfaces as an error from the layer rather than as a miss (pkg/v1/cache/fs.go). That combination is worse here than it looks. Nothing prunes this cache, so a full disk is a plausible way to reach the failure — and the result would be a build that fails even though it could have fetched the layer from the registry, as it did before the cache existed. Wrap the cache so both paths degrade instead: report a non-miss read failure as a miss, and keep the uncached layer alongside the caching one so a layer that cannot be written still reads. One case remains: a directory that fills partway through a layer surfaces the write error mid-stream, once the reader is already with the caller. Recovering there would mean re-reading consumed bytes, so it is documented rather than handled. Verified end to end against an empty read-only cache directory: the build completes and the directory stays empty, so the writes really were refused. Caching itself is unaffected — cold 65.2s write phase, warm 0.7s. Reported by CodeRabbit on crossplane#304. Signed-off-by: Steven Borrelli <steve@borrelli.org> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
baseImageForArch builds the runtime image from remote.Image and attaches its layers with LayerByDigest. Those layers are lazy: nothing reads them until tarball.MultiWrite serialises the built images, so every build re-fetches the whole base image from the registry. For a two-architecture distroless base that is over a hundred megabytes, spread across dozens of small requests, and it is why "Writing packages to disk" dominates a build that otherwise spends most of its time idle. Wrap the base image in go-containerregistry's filesystem cache, keyed by layer digest, so a repeat build reads those layers locally. The cache directory is threaded from the command layer through the Builder and BuildContext rather than resolved inside the builders, so callers stay in control and tests can disable it by leaving it empty. It sits beside the xpkg cache rather than inside it, since the two hold different artifacts and are pruned on different terms. Measured on a two-architecture Python project, warm registry, from an empty cache: cold write phase 68.1s, total build 108.3s warm write phase 0.8s, total build 34.5s The built images are unchanged: a cached build produces byte-identical function image layers to an uncached one. Only the configuration package layer differs, and that differs between two uncached builds too, so it is pre-existing nondeterminism rather than an effect of caching. Layers are content-addressed, so a cache hit cannot be stale. Note that go-containerregistry's filesystem cache has no garbage collection, so the directory grows as base images move; pruning it is left to a follow up. Signed-off-by: Steven Borrelli <steve@borrelli.org> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cache is invisible to users: it changes how long a build takes and consumes disk under their user cache directory, with nothing in the CLI saying so. Describe it in `project build`'s help, including why the first build is slower than the ones after it and that deleting the directory is safe. Say plainly that nothing prunes it. Layers are keyed by content digest, so entries are never stale, but they are also never replaced: every base image version a user builds against accumulates. Record the same caveat at DefaultBaseImageCacheDir, where someone adding a retention policy will be looking. Signed-off-by: Steven Borrelli <steve@borrelli.org> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The comment added with the cache claimed a fallback that go-containerregistry does not provide. Two paths make a bad cache fatal: cache.Image returns any Get error that is not ErrNotFound (pkg/v1/cache/cache.go), and the filesystem cache creates its backing file lazily inside Compressed, so an unwritable or full directory surfaces as an error from the layer rather than as a miss (pkg/v1/cache/fs.go). That combination is worse here than it looks. Nothing prunes this cache, so a full disk is a plausible way to reach the failure — and the result would be a build that fails even though it could have fetched the layer from the registry, as it did before the cache existed. Wrap the cache so both paths degrade instead: report a non-miss read failure as a miss, and keep the uncached layer alongside the caching one so a layer that cannot be written still reads. One case remains: a directory that fills partway through a layer surfaces the write error mid-stream, once the reader is already with the caller. Recovering there would mean re-reading consumed bytes, so it is documented rather than handled. Verified end to end against an empty read-only cache directory: the build completes and the directory stays empty, so the writes really were refused. Caching itself is unaffected — cold 65.2s write phase, warm 0.7s. Reported by CodeRabbit on crossplane#304. Signed-off-by: Steven Borrelli <steve@borrelli.org> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Integration fix. crossplane#304 adds a cacheDir parameter to baseImageForArch; crossplane#170 adds a TypeScript builder that calls it. The branches merge cleanly because they touch different files, but the result does not compile without this. Whichever PR merges second upstream needs this one line. Also update the testing notes: crossplane#302 and crossplane#303 have merged, so they now arrive through main rather than as merges here. Signed-off-by: Steven Borrelli <steve@borrelli.org> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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190-190: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAdd an action to the schema access error.
At Line 190, the error identifies the path but does not tell the user what to do next.
State that they should check that the directory exists and is readable.Proposed fix
- return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "cannot check for python schemas at %q", pySchemasRel) + return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "cannot access python schemas at %q; check that the directory exists and is readable", pySchemasRel)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@cmd/crossplane/project/help/build.md`:
- Around line 23-24: Update the cache description in the build help text to
state that the first build requiring a given base image layer populates the
shared cache; avoid implying that each project’s first build independently fills
a project-specific cache.
In `@cmd/crossplane/project/run.go`:
- Line 203: Update the cache-directory setup passed to
BuildWithBaseImageCacheDir so it does not use the predictable shared
os.TempDir-based fallback from DefaultBaseImageCacheDir. When os.UserCacheDir is
unavailable, use a private per-user temporary directory or disable base-image
caching; preserve normal caching when the user cache directory is available.
In `@internal/project/functions/basecache_test.go`:
- Line 59: Refactor the scenarios in TestTolerantCacheGetReportsFailuresAsMisses
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In `@internal/project/functions/python.go`:
- Line 190: Update the error message in the Python schema access path around
errors.Wrapf to instruct users to check that the referenced directory exists and
is readable, while preserving the existing path context and wrapped error.
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| downloading them again. The first build of a project fills the cache and is | ||
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Clarify which build populates the shared cache.
DefaultBaseImageCacheDir() uses one shared cache directory, not a project-specific directory. A project's first build can reuse layers cached by another project. Please describe the first build that needs a given base image layer instead.
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| downloading them again. The first build of a project fills the cache and is | |
| correspondingly slower than the ones after it. | |
| downloading them again. The first build that needs a given base image layer fills the cache and is | |
| correspondingly slower than later builds that reuse it. |
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In `@cmd/crossplane/project/help/build.md` around lines 23 - 24, Update the cache
description in the build help text to state that the first build requiring a
given base image layer populates the shared cache; avoid implying that each
project’s first build independently fills a project-specific cache.
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| project.BuildWithDependencyManager(depMgr), | ||
| project.BuildWithTempDir(tempDir), | ||
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In google/go-containerregistry v0.21.9, the function NewFilesystemCache is located in the package pkg/v1/cache, specifically defined in the file pkg/v1/cache/fs.go [1][2]. This function returns a Cache implementation backed by files on the local filesystem [1][3]. When creating or writing to cache entries, the implementation uses os.MkdirAll and os.OpenFile [4][5]. According to the source code implementation, the directory permission mode used for cache entries is 0700 [4]. func NewFilesystemCache(path string) Cache { return &fscache{path} } The underlying file operations rely on standard Go library functions like os.MkdirAll(lc.baseDir, 0o700) to ensure secure directory creation [4].
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- 1: https://readmex.com/google/go-containerregistry/page-5.5659b591c-9306-45ec-b433-ba036c38b990
- 2: GitHub pull request 458 in google/go-containerregistry (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 3: https://context7.com/websites/pkg_go_dev_github_com_google_go-containerregistry/llms.txt
- 4: https://github.com/stacklok/go-microvm/blob/b68ab38a/image/layer_cache.go
- 5: GitHub issue 1821 in google/go-containerregistry (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
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There is no single standard Go library function named NewFilesystemCache, MkdirAll, or OpenFile that creates a filesystem-based cache. Instead, these names refer to patterns or specific implementations found in various Go projects, where developers typically combine the standard library os.MkdirAll and os.OpenFile functions to build custom caching mechanisms. In Go development, os.MkdirAll and os.OpenFile are standard library functions used to manage file and directory operations: 1. os.MkdirAll(path string, perm FileMode) error: Creates a directory named path, along with any necessary parents. It is commonly used in custom NewFilesystemCache constructors to ensure the cache directory structure exists before initialization [1]. 2. os.OpenFile(name string, flag int, perm FileMode) (*File, error): Used to open files with specific flags (e.g., O_RDWR, O_CREATE). In caching implementations, this is often used to open or create cache files, sometimes combined with os.Create (which is a wrapper around OpenFile) for convenience [1]. Examples of this pattern include: - The google/go-containerregistry library provides a NewFilesystemCache function that manages a disk-backed cache for container layers [2][3]. It internally ensures directory existence and handles file operations to store and retrieve layer data [2][4]. - Other projects, such as saracen/lfscache, also implement a NewFilesystemCache function that uses os.MkdirAll during initialization to set up objects and temporary directories for the cache [1]. - Some implementations may use these functions to refresh or poll filesystem information, though these are project-specific and vary significantly in purpose (e.g., monitoring mountpoints rather than caching files) [5]. In summary, NewFilesystemCache is a common constructor name for custom caching components in Go, while MkdirAll and OpenFile are the underlying standard library primitives typically used to implement the directory and file management logic within those caches [1][2][3].
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- 1: saracen/lfscache@137984e
- 2: GitHub pull request 458 in google/go-containerregistry (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 3: GitHub issue 325 in google/go-containerregistry (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 4: GitHub issue 488 in google/go-containerregistry (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 5: DAB-LABS/smart-sniffer@1283cda
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Use a private fallback cache directory.
When os.UserCacheDir() falls back to os.TempDir(), the predictable /tmp/crossplane/base-images path can already exist with permissions controlled by another local user. That user could read cached layers. Use a private fallback directory or disable caching when the user cache directory is unavailable.
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In `@cmd/crossplane/project/run.go` at line 203, Update the cache-directory setup
passed to BuildWithBaseImageCacheDir so it does not use the predictable shared
os.TempDir-based fallback from DefaultBaseImageCacheDir. When os.UserCacheDir is
unavailable, use a private per-user temporary directory or disable base-image
caching; preserve normal caching when the user cache directory is available.
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Use the required table-driven test structure.
Please combine these scenarios into table-driven tests. Use named cases with args, want,
and reason fields. For error results, compare with cmp.Diff and
cmpopts.EquateErrors().
Also applies to: 70-70, 83-83, 116-116
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In `@internal/project/functions/basecache_test.go` at line 59, Refactor the
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I was looking where time was spent during project builds, and filesystem access during package builds emerged as one of the biggest culprits. This PR creates an on-disk cache of filesystem layers as a proposed solution.
Description of your changes
baseImageForArchbuilds each function's runtime image withremote.Imageand attaches its layers viaLayerByDigest. Those layers are lazy — nothing reads their bytes untiltarball.MultiWriteserialises the built images — so every build re-fetches the entire base image from the registry. For a two-architecture distroless base that is 110MB across 44 small requests, and it is whyWriting packages to diskdominates builds that are otherwise mostly idle.This wraps the base image in go-containerregistry's filesystem cache, keyed by layer digest.
Measured on a two-architecture Python project, warm registry, starting from an empty cache:
The cache directory came to 48MB for that project's base images.
For context on where the rest of the time goes, container lifetimes during a build (from
docker events) account for only ~15s of a ~56s build on another project — the schema generator and the function builder are not the bottleneck; this fetch was.Notes for reviewers
<UserCacheDir>/crossplane/base-images, beside the existing xpkg cache rather than inside it, since the two hold different kinds of artifact and would be pruned on different terms. Happy to fold it under--cache-dirinstead if reviewers prefer one knob.BuilderandBuildContextrather than resolved inside the builders, so callers stay in control and an empty value disables caching — which is what the existing tests get.Things I ruled out first
tarball.WithCompressedCaching, on the theory thatLayerFromOpenergzips once for the digest andMultiWritegzips again. No measurable effect (30.4s vs 28.7s) — compression was never the bottleneck, and the default level is alreadygzip.BestSpeed.I have:
./nix.sh flake checkto ensure this PR is ready for review.Added or updated unit tests.Linked a PR or a docs tracking issue to document this change.Addedbackport release-x.ylabels to auto-backport this PR.Need help with this checklist? See the cheat sheet.