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Feature Request: Automated Recovery

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Description

I have a large Github Action workflow that pushes over 600 images up to the GitHub Container Registry.

This mostly works fine, except that I have to set max-parallels based on how many images I expect to be running at a time, and even then sometimes I'm hitting APIs too fast or getting a rare error.

For example:

buildx failed with: ERROR: failed to solve: failed to compute cache key: failed to copy: httpReadSeeker: failed open: unexpected status code https://ghcr.io/v2/swiftotter/den-php-fpm/blobs/sha256:456f646c7993e2a08fbdcbb09c191d153118d0c8675e1a0b29f83895c425105f: 500 Internal Server Error - Server message: unknown

or

buildx failed with: ERROR: failed to solve: failed to compute cache key: failed to copy: read tcp 172.17.0.2:59588->185.199.111.154:443: read: connection timed out

or

buildx failed with: ERROR: failed to solve: failed to do request: Head "https://ghcr.io/v2/swiftotter/den-php-fpm-debug/blobs/sha256:d6b642fadba654351d3fc430b0b9a51f7044351daaed3d27055b19044d29ec66": dial tcp: lookup ghcr.io on 168.63.129.16:53: read udp 172.17.0.2:40862->168.63.129.16:53: i/o timeout

These are all temporary errors that disappear the moment I re-run the job. Instead, what I wish for is that in such cases - like timeouts, or server errors or too many requests errors, that some sort of automated backoff retry system exists, with configurable limitations.

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Research direction

No source files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reviewing how the GitHub Action invokes Buildx and handles failures, then determine where configurable retries and backoff belong; done means transient timeouts, server errors, and too-many-requests errors are retried within configurable limits.

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Assessment

Tech stack
docker, github-actions, typescript
Domain
ci-cd, devops
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
42/100

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