cascache 0.1.1
Flexible ContentAddressableStorage written in python
License: MIT
Requires Python: >=3.13

# cascache

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> **⚠️ PROOF OF CONCEPT - NOT PRODUCTION READY**
>
> This is a **conceptual implementation** for research and development purposes.
> While it demonstrates core CAS functionality and includes comprehensive testing,
> it is **not intended for production use**. Use at your own risk.
>
> See [docs/concept.md](docs/concept.md) for more details about the concept and technologies used.

Conten Adressable Storage (CAS) server solution in python. Focus was to make a caching server
that is compliant to bazel-remote and by that, implementing the
Remote Execution API (REAPI) via gRPC.
This is a companion app, to the [cascade workflow tool](https://gitlab.com/cascascade/cascade).

**Warning**: Large parts of this tool were generated with the help of AI. Special thanks to Claude Sonnet for the excellent support!


## Features

- ✅ **REAPI v2 Compliant** - ContentAddressableStorage, ActionCache, and Capabilities services
- ✅ **Comprehensive Testing** - 218 tests, Docker support, comprehensive error handling
- ✅ **High Performance** - Optimized with protobuf serialization, streaming, and LRU caching
- ✅ **Thread-Safe** - Atomic file writes, thread-safe metrics, validated under concurrent load
- ✅ **Secure** - Token-based authentication with SHA256 hashing and CLI management
- ✅ **Rate Limiting** - Token bucket algorithm protects against overload
- ✅ **Multiple Backends** - Filesystem, Memory, S3 (AWS S3, MinIO, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2)
- ✅ **Eviction Policies** - TTL, LRU, and Size Quota eviction with real timestamp tracking
- ✅ **Bazel Integration** - 11x faster builds with ActionCache and CAS
- ✅ **Monitoring Dashboard** - Real-time web UI for metrics and performance
- ✅ **Metrics Tracking** - Cache hits, misses, storage size, operations

## Quick Start

### Installation

**From PyPI (Recommended):**

```bash
# Install cascache
pip install cascache

# Verify installation
cascache --version

# With optional dashboard support
pip install cascache[dashboard]

# With all optional features
pip install cascache[all]
```

**From Source (Development):**

Install from the current directory:

```bash
uv sync
uv run cascache --help
```

Or via pip:

```bash
pip install -e ".[dev]"
cascache --help
```

### Start the Server

```bash
# Start with default settings (filesystem storage, port 50051)
just serve

# Start with debug logging
just serve-debug

# Start with dashboard enabled (requires uv pip install -e ".[dashboard]")
just serve-dashboard

# Or directly:
uv run python -m cascache
```

### Configure Bazel

Add to your `.bazelrc`:

```bash
build --remote_cache=grpc://localhost:50051
```

Test with a build:

```bash
# First build - cold cache
bazel clean
bazel build //...

# Second build - should be ~10x faster
bazel build //...
```

## Configuration

Configure the server using environment variables:

| Variable | Default | Description |
|----------|---------|-------------|
| `CAS_STORAGE_TYPE` | `filesystem` | Storage backend: `filesystem`, `memory`, `s3` |
| `CAS_STORAGE_PATH` | `/tmp/cas` | Storage path (filesystem) or bucket (S3) |
| `CAS_PORT` | `50051` | gRPC server port |
| `CAS_HOST` | `[::]` | Server host (IPv6 all interfaces) |
| `CAS_WORKERS` | `10` | Thread pool size |
| `CAS_MAX_BLOB_SIZE` | `1000000000` | Max blob size (1GB) |
| `CAS_MAX_AGE_DAYS` | `30` | Blob TTL in days (deprecated, use `CAS_EVICTION_MAX_AGE_DAYS`) |
| `CAS_LOG_LEVEL` | `INFO` | Logging level: `DEBUG`, `INFO`, `WARNING` |
| `CAS_LOG_FORMAT` | `json` | Log format: `json`, `text` |
| `CAS_REAPI_VERSIONS` | `simple` | REAPI versions (comma-separated) |
| `CAS_ENABLE_CACHE` | `true` | Enable LRU caching layer |
| `CAS_CACHE_SIZE` | `1000` | LRU cache size (entries) |
| `CAS_CACHE_MAX_BLOB_SIZE` | `65536` | Max blob size to cache (64KB) |
| `CAS_AUTH_ENABLED` | `false` | Enable token-based authentication |
| `CAS_AUTH_TOKENS_FILE` | `/etc/cas/tokens.json` | Path to tokens file |
| `CAS_RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED` | `true` | Enable rate limiting |
| `CAS_RATE_LIMIT_RPS` | `1000.0` | Rate limit (requests/second) |
| `CAS_RATE_LIMIT_BURST` | `100` | Rate limit burst capacity |

**S3 Backend Configuration:**

| Variable | Default | Description |
|----------|---------|-------------|
| `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` | - | AWS access key (required for S3) |
| `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY` | - | AWS secret key (required for S3) |
| `AWS_REGION` | `us-east-1` | AWS region |
| `CAS_S3_ENDPOINT_URL` | - | Custom S3 endpoint (for MinIO, R2, B2) |
| `CAS_S3_PREFIX` | ` ` | S3 object prefix for blob isolation |

**Eviction Configuration:**

| Variable | Default | Description |
|----------|---------|-------------|
| `CAS_EVICTION_ENABLED` | `true` | Enable automatic eviction |
| `CAS_EVICTION_POLICY` | `ttl` | Eviction policy: `ttl`, `lru`, `size_quota` |
| `CAS_EVICTION_MAX_AGE_DAYS` | `30` | TTL eviction: max age in days |
| `CAS_EVICTION_MAX_SIZE_GB` | `100` | LRU/Size Quota: max storage size in GB |
| `CAS_EVICTION_TARGET_SIZE_GB` | `80` | LRU/Size Quota: target size after eviction |
| `CAS_EVICTION_INTERVAL_HOURS` | `24` | Eviction check interval in hours |

**Dashboard Configuration:**

| Variable | Default | Description |
|----------|---------|-------------|
| `CAS_DASHBOARD_ENABLED` | `false` | Enable web dashboard |
| `CAS_DASHBOARD_PORT` | `8080` | Dashboard HTTP port |
| `CAS_DASHBOARD_HOST` | `0.0.0.0` | Dashboard bind address |

### Performance Optimizations

The server includes several performance optimizations:

1. **Protobuf Binary Serialization** - ActionCache uses binary protobuf instead of JSON (5-10x faster)
2. **Streaming Support** - Large blobs (>1MB) are streamed to prevent memory bloat
3. **LRU Caching** - Frequently accessed small blobs are cached in memory
4. **Optimized I/O** - Uses `stat()` for size checks, direct file streaming
5. **Zero-Copy Proto Handling** - Eliminated redundant serialization/deserialization

These optimizations enable Python to achieve performance comparable to compiled languages for I/O-bound workloads.

**Results:** 11x Bazel build speedup (cold: 11s, warm: 1s)

### Thread Safety & Concurrency

The server is production-hardened for concurrent workloads:

1. **Atomic File Writes** - temp + rename pattern prevents corruption
2. **Thread-Safe Metrics** - Locks protect all counter updates
3. **Rate Limiting** - Token bucket algorithm per-client limits
4. **Validated Under Load** - 99 tests including 8 concurrency stress tests

For detailed architecture and implementation, see:
- [spec/design.md - Section 11: Performance Architecture](spec/design.md#11-performance-architecture)
- [spec/design.md - Section 12: Concurrency Architecture](spec/design.md#12-concurrency-architecture)
- [spec/design.md - Section 13: Security Architecture](spec/design.md#13-security-architecture)

## Authentication

### Enable Authentication

```bash
export CAS_AUTH_ENABLED=true
export CAS_AUTH_TOKENS_FILE=/etc/cas/tokens.json
just serve
```

### Token Management

```bash
# Create a token
cascache admin create-token --name "team-ci" --expires-days 30
# Output: cas-token-abc123...

# List all tokens
cascache admin list-tokens

# Revoke a token
cascache admin revoke-token cas-token-abc123
```

### Client Configuration (Bazel)

```bash
# .bazelrc
build --remote_cache=grpc://localhost:50051
build --remote_header=authorization=Bearer cas-token-abc123...
```

### Security Features

- ✅ **SHA256 Hashing** - Only token hashes stored, never plaintext
- ✅ **File Permissions** - tokens.json restricted to owner (chmod 600)
- ✅ **Token Expiration** - Configurable TTL (default: 30 days)
- ✅ **Token Revocation** - Instant invalidation of compromised tokens
- ✅ **Cryptographic Tokens** - Generated with `secrets.token_urlsafe(32)`

For detailed setup guide, see [spec/operations.md - Authentication](spec/operations.md#5-authentication).

## Rate Limiting

### Configuration

```bash
export CAS_RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED=true
export CAS_RATE_LIMIT_RPS=1000.0    # Requests per second
export CAS_RATE_LIMIT_BURST=100      # Burst capacity
```

The server uses a **token bucket algorithm** for rate limiting:
- Per-client rate limits (identified by metadata or method)
- Allows bursts while maintaining average rate
- Returns `RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED` when limit exceeded
- Thread-safe for concurrent requests

### Monitoring

Access cache statistics programmatically:

```python
from cascache.storage import CachedStorage

storage = CachedStorage(backend, cache_size=1000)
stats = storage.get_cache_stats()

# Returns:
# {
#   "get_cache": {"hits": 234, "misses": 12, "maxsize": 1000, "currsize": 156},
#   "exists_cache": {"hits": 567, "misses": 23, "maxsize": 1000, "currsize": 234},
#   "size_cache": {"hits": 123, "misses": 8, "maxsize": 1000, "currsize": 89}
# }
```

## Dashboard

Real-time web dashboard for monitoring server metrics and performance.

### Enable Dashboard

```bash
# Install dashboard dependencies
uv pip install -e ".[dashboard]"

# Start server with dashboard (easiest)
just serve-dashboard

# Or manually with environment variables
export CAS_DASHBOARD_ENABLED=true
export CAS_DASHBOARD_PORT=8080
export CAS_DASHBOARD_HOST=0.0.0.0
just serve
```

The dashboard will be available at `http://localhost:8080`

### Features

- **Real-time Metrics** - Auto-refreshes every 2 seconds
- **Cache Performance** - Hit rate, hits/misses, total requests
- **Storage Stats** - Blob count, total size (human-readable)
- **Operations** - Read/write/delete counters
- **Eviction Tracking** - Eviction count, last/next run times
- **Server Info** - Uptime, status

### API Endpoints

```bash
# Get JSON stats
curl http://localhost:8080/api/stats

# Health check
curl http://localhost:8080/health
```

**Response Example:**
```json
{
  "cache": {
    "hits": 1234,
    "misses": 56,
    "total_requests": 1290,
    "hit_rate": "95.66%"
  },
  "storage": {
    "blobs_count": 456,
    "total_bytes": 1073741824,
    "total_bytes_human": "1.00 GB"
  },
  "operations": {
    "reads": 1500,
    "writes": 500,
    "deletes": 10
  },
  "eviction": {
    "evictions": 25,
    "last_run": 1707648000.0,
    "next_run": 1707734400.0
  },
  "server": {
    "uptime_seconds": 86400,
    "uptime_human": "1d 0h 0m 0s"
  }
}
```

### Configuration

| Variable | Default | Description |
|----------|---------|-------------|
| `CAS_DASHBOARD_ENABLED` | `false` | Enable web dashboard |
| `CAS_DASHBOARD_PORT` | `8080` | Dashboard HTTP port |
| `CAS_DASHBOARD_HOST` | `0.0.0.0` | Dashboard bind address |

**Note:** Dashboard requires Python 3.13 or lower due to FastAPI/Pydantic compatibility. Python 3.14 support will be added when upstream dependencies are updated.

## Eviction Policies

Automatic garbage collection with configurable eviction policies.

### TTL Eviction (Time-To-Live)

Evict blobs older than a specified age:

```bash
export CAS_EVICTION_ENABLED=true
export CAS_EVICTION_POLICY=ttl
export CAS_EVICTION_MAX_AGE_DAYS=30      # Evict blobs >30 days old
export CAS_EVICTION_INTERVAL_HOURS=24    # Check every 24 hours

uv run cascache serve
```

### LRU Eviction (Least Recently Used)

Evict least recently accessed blobs when storage quota is exceeded:

```bash
export CAS_EVICTION_ENABLED=true
export CAS_EVICTION_POLICY=lru
export CAS_EVICTION_MAX_SIZE_GB=100      # Max 100GB storage
export CAS_EVICTION_TARGET_SIZE_GB=80    # Evict down to 80GB
export CAS_EVICTION_INTERVAL_HOURS=1     # Check every hour

uv run cascache serve
```

### Size Quota Eviction (Oldest First)

Evict oldest blobs (by creation time) when storage quota is exceeded:

```bash
export CAS_EVICTION_ENABLED=true
export CAS_EVICTION_POLICY=size_quota
export CAS_EVICTION_MAX_SIZE_GB=100      # Max 100GB storage
export CAS_EVICTION_TARGET_SIZE_GB=80    # Evict down to 80GB
export CAS_EVICTION_INTERVAL_HOURS=1     # Check every hour

uv run cascache serve
```

**Features:**
- Background worker runs at configurable intervals
- Non-blocking eviction (separate thread)
- Graceful shutdown with server
- Manual triggering via `run_now()` method
- Stats tracking (runs, total evicted, bytes freed)
- Pluggable policy architecture (TTL, LRU, custom)

**Manual Eviction:**

```python
from cascache.eviction import (
    EvictionWorker,
    TTLEvictionPolicy,
    LRUEvictionPolicy,
    SizeQuotaEvictionPolicy,
)
from cascache.storage.filesystem import FilesystemStorage

storage = FilesystemStorage("/tmp/cas")

# TTL policy: evict blobs older than 7 days
ttl_policy = TTLEvictionPolicy(max_age_days=7)

# LRU policy: keep storage under 10GB (evict least recently used)
lru_policy = LRUEvictionPolicy(
    max_size_bytes=10 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
    target_size_bytes=8 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
)

# Size Quota policy: keep storage under 10GB (evict oldest first)
size_quota_policy = SizeQuotaEvictionPolicy(
    max_size_bytes=10 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
    target_size_bytes=8 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
)

# Create worker with chosen policy
worker = EvictionWorker(storage, size_quota_policy)
worker.run_now()

stats = worker.get_stats()
print(f"Evicted {stats['total_evicted']} blobs ({stats['total_freed_bytes']} bytes)")
```

**Metadata Tracking:**

All storage backends now track real timestamps:
- **FilesystemStorage:** Timestamps stored in `.meta` JSON files alongside blobs
- **MemoryStorage:** Timestamps tracked in-memory dictionaries
- **S3Storage:** Timestamps stored in S3 object metadata

Eviction policies use real `created_at` and `accessed_at` timestamps for production-ready eviction decisions.

## Development

### Setup

```bash
uv sync
```

### Testing

```bash
# Run all tests (218 tests)
just test

# Run unit tests only
just test-unit

# Run integration tests only
just test-integration

# Run with coverage
just test-cov

# Run Bazel integration tests (Docker)
just test-bazel-docker

# Run Bazel integration tests with authentication
just test-bazel-docker-auth

# Run Bazel integration tests with S3 backend
just test-bazel-docker-s3

# Run Bazel tests locally (requires Bazel installed)
just test-bazel-local
```

**Note on Bazel Integration:** When running Bazel tests, you may see this warning:
```
ERROR: Failed to query remote execution capabilities: The client supported API versions, 2.0 to 2.0, is not supported by the server
WARNING: Remote Cache: The client supported API versions, 2.0 to 2.0, is not supported by the server, 2.0 to 0.0
```

This is **expected and harmless** - it's Bazel detecting that we don't support remote execution (only caching). The cache works correctly despite this message.

**How to verify caching is working:**
- **Primary indicator:** Build time speedup (cold: ~10s, warm: ~1s = **10x faster**)
- **Secondary indicators:** Bazel shows `checking cached actions` and `remote-cache` in action logs
- The speedup proves the cache is functioning correctly, even if cache hit counts aren't explicitly shown

### Linting & Formatting

```bash
# Check for linting issues
just lint

# Auto-fix lint issues
just lint-fix

# Format code
just format

# Type-check
just typecheck

# Run all CI checks
just ci
```

## Docker Deployment

### Build and Run

```bash
# Build the Docker image
docker build -t cascache:latest .

# Run with filesystem storage
docker run -p 50051:50051 \
  -v $(pwd)/data:/data/cas \
  -e CAS_STORAGE_PATH=/data/cas \
  -e CAS_LOG_LEVEL=INFO \
  cascache:latest

# Run with S3 storage (MinIO/AWS S3/R2/B2)
docker run -p 50051:50051 \
  -e CAS_STORAGE_TYPE=s3 \
  -e CAS_STORAGE_PATH=my-cas-bucket \
  -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=minioadmin \
  -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=minioadmin \
  -e CAS_S3_ENDPOINT_URL=http://minio:9000 \
  cascache:latest

# Run with eviction enabled
docker run -p 50051:50051 \
  -v $(pwd)/data:/data/cas \
  -e CAS_STORAGE_PATH=/data/cas \
  -e CAS_EVICTION_ENABLED=true \
  -e CAS_EVICTION_POLICY=lru \
  -e CAS_EVICTION_MAX_SIZE_GB=50 \
  -e CAS_EVICTION_TARGET_SIZE_GB=40 \
  cascache:latest
```

### Docker Compose

See [tests/bazel/docker-compose.yml](tests/bazel/docker-compose.yml) for filesystem example and [tests/bazel/docker-compose.s3.yml](tests/bazel/docker-compose.s3.yml) for S3/MinIO example.

### Implementation Status

| Component | Status | Tests |
|-----------|--------|-------|
| Storage Layer | ✅ Complete | 72 tests |
| CAS Service | ✅ Complete | 12 tests |
| ActionCache Service | ✅ Complete | 11 tests |
| Capabilities Service | ✅ Complete | - |
| gRPC Integration | ✅ Complete | 10 tests |
| Bazel Integration | ✅ Validated | 2 tests |
| LRU Caching | ✅ Complete | 11 tests |
| Thread Safety | ✅ Complete | 8 tests |
| Authentication | ✅ Complete | 7 tests |
| Rate Limiting | ✅ Complete | 14 tests |
| S3 Backend | ✅ Complete | 29 tests |
| TTL Eviction | ✅ Complete | 13 tests |
| LRU Eviction | ✅ Complete | 17 tests |
| Size Quota Eviction | ✅ Complete | 15 tests |
| Eviction Worker | ✅ Complete | 12 tests |
| Metadata Tracking | ✅ Complete | 10 tests |

**Total: 185 passing tests** (118 baseline + 57 eviction + 10 metadata)

### Performance Benchmarks

**Bazel Build Performance:**
- Cold build: 11 seconds
- Warm build: 1 second
- **Speedup: 11x** (cache hit rate >90%)

**Storage Backend Performance:**

| Operation | Filesystem | S3 (MinIO) | Memory |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Small blob (1KB) get | ~1ms | ~5ms | <1µs |
| Large blob (10MB) get | ~100ms | ~200ms | ~50ms |
| Cached get | <10µs | <10µs | <1µs |

**Memory Usage:**
- Baseline: ~50MB
- With LRU cache (1000 entries): ~80MB
- With LRU cache (10000 entries): ~200MB

## Documentation

### Architecture & Design

- [spec/design.md](spec/design.md) - Complete architecture documentation including:
  - Component architecture and layered design
  - Performance architecture and optimizations (Section 11)
  - Concurrency architecture and thread safety (Section 12)
  - Security architecture (Section 13)
  - Design decisions and trade-offs
- [spec/roadmap.md](spec/roadmap.md) - Development roadmap and milestones
- [spec/operations.md](spec/operations.md) - Deployment and operations guide
- [spec/api.md](spec/api.md) - API reference
- [spec/testing.md](spec/testing.md) - Testing strategy and guidelines

### Development

- [.github/copilot-instructions.md](.github/copilot-instructions.md) - AI pair programming context

## Architecture

The project follows a strict layered architecture:

1. **gRPC API Layer** - Protocol buffer handlers
2. **Service Layer** - Business logic (CAS, ActionCache, Capabilities)
3. **Storage Abstraction** - `StorageBackend` interface
4. **Storage Implementations** - Filesystem, Memory, S3, Cached wrapper
5. **Eviction Layer** - Pluggable eviction policies (TTL, LRU, Size Quota)
6. **Models** - Digest, Blob, ActionResult, BlobMetadata dataclasses

### Storage Backends

- **FilesystemStorage** - Production-ready persistent storage with metadata tracking
- **MemoryStorage** - In-memory storage for testing
- **S3Storage** - AWS S3, MinIO, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2 support
- **CachedStorage** - LRU cache wrapper for any backend

## Development & Contributing

### Setup Development Environment

```bash
# Clone repository
git clone https://gitlab.com/cascascade/cascache.git
cd cascache

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Run tests
just test

# Run linter
just lint

# Run type checker
just typecheck
```

### Running Tests

```bash
# All tests
just test

# Unit tests only
just test-unit

# Integration tests
just test-integration

# Bazel integration (Docker)
just test-bazel-docker

# With coverage
just test-cov
```

### Making Changes

1. Create a branch: `git checkout -b feature/my-feature`
2. Make changes and add tests
3. Run checks: `just ci`
4. Commit with conventional commits: `git commit -m "feat: add new feature"`
5. Push and create merge request

### Deployment

See [docs/deployment.md](docs/deployment.md) for comprehensive deployment guide.

**Quick deployment:**

```bash
# First-time setup
./scripts/first_deploy.sh

# Bump version and deploy
just release-patch  # 0.1.0 → 0.1.1
just release-minor  # 0.1.0 → 0.2.0
just release-major  # 0.1.0 → 1.0.0
```

**Automated deployment via GitLab CI:**

```bash
# Bump version
just bump-patch

# Commit and tag
git add src/cascache/_version.py
git commit -m "chore: bump version to 0.1.1"
git tag v0.1.1

# Push (CI will deploy to PyPI)
git push && git push --tags
```

## Resources

- [REAPI Specification](https://github.com/bazelbuild/remote-apis)
- [Bazel Remote Caching](https://bazel.build/remote/caching)
- [gRPC Python Documentation](https://grpc.io/docs/languages/python/)

## License

MIT