Make setup-node faster and more reliable #160
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We have occasionally seen that setup-node actions failing due to intermittent connection failures between us and nodejs.org.
To alleviate the issue, we could cache our "most-widely-used" Node.js version inside the container image, enabling setup-node to skip access to nodejs.org.
This tries to implements that, in a way so that it becomes resilient to nodejs and tool-cache changes. Just keep updating NODE_VERSION defined in the dockerfile using dependabot or renovate- the rest of the change will just work regardless of the version you want.
Testing
To anyone interested, you can test this locally by building images using commands like:
and deploying it using the gha-runner-scale-set chart.