From 6c46ca98a703f701c64ae35b5253a584b6cb9c2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: enricobuehler <enrico.buehler@unom.io>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2026 13:43:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ci: switch buildx cache-to to mode=min
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mode=max was re-uploading the bun install cache mount (~40–60s per
build, ~90s combined for api-core + web) to the Gitea OCI registry
on every push, even when source hadn't changed. That single export
accounts for most of the delta between 1-minute and 3-minute deploys.

mode=min only exports the final stage's layers. The trade-off is a
few-second tax on cold buildkitd starts (the installer stage no
longer warms from registry cache), but the per-push savings dwarf it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .gitea/workflows/build-deploy-game.yml | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/build-deploy-game.yml b/.gitea/workflows/build-deploy-game.yml
index 5e7d0bd..15a86da 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/build-deploy-game.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/build-deploy-game.yml
@@ -80,8 +80,15 @@ jobs:
             npmrc=/tmp/.npmrc
           cache-from: |
             type=registry,ref=git.unom.io/${{ gitea.repository }}/api-core:cache
+          # mode=min: export only the final stage's layers. mode=max
+          # was re-uploading the bun-install cache mount (~40–60s) to
+          # the Gitea OCI registry on every push, even no-op deploys.
+          # Trade-off: a cold buildkitd will re-run `bun install` from
+          # scratch on the installer stage instead of importing it
+          # from registry cache — a few-second tax in exchange for
+          # not paying the export tax on every run.
           cache-to: |
-            type=registry,ref=git.unom.io/${{ gitea.repository }}/api-core:cache,mode=max
+            type=registry,ref=git.unom.io/${{ gitea.repository }}/api-core:cache,mode=min
 
   deploy-api-core:
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
@@ -196,8 +203,9 @@ jobs:
             npmrc=/tmp/.npmrc
           cache-from: |
             type=registry,ref=git.unom.io/${{ gitea.repository }}/web:cache
+          # See the api-core cache-to block above for the mode=min rationale.
           cache-to: |
-            type=registry,ref=git.unom.io/${{ gitea.repository }}/web:cache,mode=max
+            type=registry,ref=git.unom.io/${{ gitea.repository }}/web:cache,mode=min
 
   deploy-web:
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04