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LocalAI [bot] 29db4ab414 fix(ci): shard single-arch backend matrix under GitHub's 256-job limit (#10703)
GitHub Actions refuses to instantiate a matrix that would generate more
than 256 jobs. It does so silently: the job hangs forever at "Waiting for
pending jobs" and the whole run is marked `failure` while every other job
stays green. This is exactly what happened on the v4.6.1 tag build
(run 28786533892): the single-arch build matrix had grown to 268 entries,
so `backend-jobs-singlearch` (and its downstream merge) never produced a
single job, and the release build "failed" with no failing job to point at.

The single-arch list is the one that grows unbounded as backends are added,
so shard it across a fixed number of matrix jobs (SINGLEARCH_SHARDS=4,
~67 entries each today, headroom to ~1020 backends). Each merge shard
`needs:` only its matching build shard, preserving the "merge waits only on
its own build" property that keeps slow CUDA/ROCm builds from gating
multi-arch manifest assembly.

changed-backends.js now emits per-shard matrix/has-* outputs and throws
loudly if a shard ever reaches the 256 limit (telling the maintainer to
bump SINGLEARCH_SHARDS and add matching job blocks) instead of letting
GitHub drop the overflow silently. backend.yml and backend_pr.yml define
the four build + four merge shard jobs; multi-arch and darwin groups are
untouched.


Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-06 21:38:12 +02:00

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---
name: 'build backend container images'
on:
push:
branches:
- master
tags:
- '*'
schedule:
# Weekly full-matrix rebuild to pick up upstream Python wheel updates
# (torch, transformers, vllm, ...) which most backends pull unpinned.
# The DEPS_REFRESH build-arg in backend_build.yml busts the install
# layer cache on a new ISO week, but only fires when the build runs.
# Path filtering on commit-driven pushes (scripts/changed-backends.js)
# skips untouched backends, so without this cron those images would
# drift on stale wheels indefinitely. C++/Go backends with pinned
# deps cache-hit and finish fast.
#
# Schedule events have no event.ref / event.before, so the script's
# changedFiles==null fallback emits the full matrix automatically —
# no script changes needed.
- cron: '0 6 * * 0' # Sundays 06:00 UTC
workflow_dispatch:
concurrency:
group: ci-backends-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.sha }}-${{ github.repository }}
cancel-in-progress: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
jobs:
generate-matrix:
if: github.repository == 'mudler/LocalAI'
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
outputs:
matrix-multiarch: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['matrix-multiarch'] }}
matrix-darwin: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['matrix-darwin'] }}
merge-matrix-multiarch: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['merge-matrix-multiarch'] }}
has-backends-multiarch: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['has-backends-multiarch'] }}
has-backends-darwin: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['has-backends-darwin'] }}
has-merges-multiarch: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['has-merges-multiarch'] }}
# Single-arch backends are sharded across SINGLEARCH_SHARDS matrix jobs to
# stay under GitHub's 256-jobs-per-matrix limit (see changed-backends.js).
matrix-singlearch-1: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['matrix-singlearch-1'] }}
merge-matrix-singlearch-1: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['merge-matrix-singlearch-1'] }}
has-backends-singlearch-1: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['has-backends-singlearch-1'] }}
has-merges-singlearch-1: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['has-merges-singlearch-1'] }}
matrix-singlearch-2: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['matrix-singlearch-2'] }}
merge-matrix-singlearch-2: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['merge-matrix-singlearch-2'] }}
has-backends-singlearch-2: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['has-backends-singlearch-2'] }}
has-merges-singlearch-2: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['has-merges-singlearch-2'] }}
matrix-singlearch-3: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['matrix-singlearch-3'] }}
merge-matrix-singlearch-3: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['merge-matrix-singlearch-3'] }}
has-backends-singlearch-3: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['has-backends-singlearch-3'] }}
has-merges-singlearch-3: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['has-merges-singlearch-3'] }}
matrix-singlearch-4: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['matrix-singlearch-4'] }}
merge-matrix-singlearch-4: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['merge-matrix-singlearch-4'] }}
has-backends-singlearch-4: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['has-backends-singlearch-4'] }}
has-merges-singlearch-4: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs['has-merges-singlearch-4'] }}
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v7
- name: Setup Bun
uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@v2
- name: Install dependencies
run: |
bun add js-yaml
bun add @octokit/core
# Filter the backend matrix from .github/backend-matrix.yml against the
# files changed by this push. Tag pushes set FORCE_ALL=true so the script
# falls through to the full matrix (releases must rebuild everything).
# The script splits the linux matrix into single-arch and multi-arch
# groups so backend-merge-jobs can `needs:` only the multi-arch one —
# see the comment block above the merge job for context.
- name: Filter matrix for changed backends
id: set-matrix
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
GITHUB_EVENT_PATH: ${{ github.event_path }}
FORCE_ALL: ${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/') && 'true' || 'false' }}
run: bun run scripts/changed-backends.js
# Multi-arch backends — entries with a `platform-tag` set, paired with a
# sibling entry sharing the same `tag-suffix` (one amd64 leg, one arm64
# leg). Their digests are the inputs to backend-merge-jobs, so they're in
# their own matrix to bound how long the merge waits before quay GCs the
# untagged digests.
backend-jobs-multiarch:
needs: generate-matrix
if: needs.generate-matrix.outputs['has-backends-multiarch'] == 'true'
uses: ./.github/workflows/backend_build.yml
with:
tag-latest: ${{ matrix.tag-latest }}
tag-suffix: ${{ matrix.tag-suffix }}
build-type: ${{ matrix.build-type }}
cuda-major-version: ${{ matrix.cuda-major-version }}
cuda-minor-version: ${{ matrix.cuda-minor-version }}
platforms: ${{ matrix.platforms }}
platform-tag: ${{ matrix.platform-tag || '' }}
runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
builder-base-image: ${{ matrix.builder-base-image || '' }}
base-image: ${{ matrix.base-image }}
backend: ${{ matrix.backend }}
dockerfile: ${{ matrix.dockerfile }}
skip-drivers: ${{ matrix.skip-drivers }}
context: ${{ matrix.context }}
ubuntu-version: ${{ matrix.ubuntu-version }}
amdgpu-targets: ${{ matrix.amdgpu-targets || 'gfx908,gfx90a,gfx942,gfx950,gfx1030,gfx1100,gfx1101,gfx1102,gfx1151,gfx1200,gfx1201' }}
secrets:
dockerUsername: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
dockerPassword: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
quayUsername: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_USERNAME }}
quayPassword: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD }}
strategy:
fail-fast: false
max-parallel: 8
matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrix.outputs['matrix-multiarch']) }}
# Single-arch backends — no `platform-tag`. Heavy ones (CUDA, ROCm, Intel
# oneAPI, vLLM/sglang) live here. Independent of the merge job: they can
# take their full ~6h cold without blocking manifest assembly for the
# multi-arch backends whose per-arch digests would otherwise sit untagged
# on quay long enough to be GC'd.
backend-jobs-singlearch-1:
needs: generate-matrix
if: needs.generate-matrix.outputs['has-backends-singlearch-1'] == 'true'
uses: ./.github/workflows/backend_build.yml
with:
tag-latest: ${{ matrix.tag-latest }}
tag-suffix: ${{ matrix.tag-suffix }}
build-type: ${{ matrix.build-type }}
cuda-major-version: ${{ matrix.cuda-major-version }}
cuda-minor-version: ${{ matrix.cuda-minor-version }}
platforms: ${{ matrix.platforms }}
platform-tag: ${{ matrix.platform-tag || '' }}
runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
builder-base-image: ${{ matrix.builder-base-image || '' }}
base-image: ${{ matrix.base-image }}
backend: ${{ matrix.backend }}
dockerfile: ${{ matrix.dockerfile }}
skip-drivers: ${{ matrix.skip-drivers }}
context: ${{ matrix.context }}
ubuntu-version: ${{ matrix.ubuntu-version }}
amdgpu-targets: ${{ matrix.amdgpu-targets || 'gfx908,gfx90a,gfx942,gfx950,gfx1030,gfx1100,gfx1101,gfx1102,gfx1151,gfx1200,gfx1201' }}
secrets:
dockerUsername: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
dockerPassword: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
quayUsername: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_USERNAME }}
quayPassword: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD }}
strategy:
fail-fast: false
max-parallel: 8
matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrix.outputs['matrix-singlearch-1']) }}
backend-jobs-singlearch-2:
needs: generate-matrix
if: needs.generate-matrix.outputs['has-backends-singlearch-2'] == 'true'
uses: ./.github/workflows/backend_build.yml
with:
tag-latest: ${{ matrix.tag-latest }}
tag-suffix: ${{ matrix.tag-suffix }}
build-type: ${{ matrix.build-type }}
cuda-major-version: ${{ matrix.cuda-major-version }}
cuda-minor-version: ${{ matrix.cuda-minor-version }}
platforms: ${{ matrix.platforms }}
platform-tag: ${{ matrix.platform-tag || '' }}
runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
builder-base-image: ${{ matrix.builder-base-image || '' }}
base-image: ${{ matrix.base-image }}
backend: ${{ matrix.backend }}
dockerfile: ${{ matrix.dockerfile }}
skip-drivers: ${{ matrix.skip-drivers }}
context: ${{ matrix.context }}
ubuntu-version: ${{ matrix.ubuntu-version }}
amdgpu-targets: ${{ matrix.amdgpu-targets || 'gfx908,gfx90a,gfx942,gfx950,gfx1030,gfx1100,gfx1101,gfx1102,gfx1151,gfx1200,gfx1201' }}
secrets:
dockerUsername: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
dockerPassword: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
quayUsername: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_USERNAME }}
quayPassword: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD }}
strategy:
fail-fast: false
max-parallel: 8
matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrix.outputs['matrix-singlearch-2']) }}
backend-jobs-singlearch-3:
needs: generate-matrix
if: needs.generate-matrix.outputs['has-backends-singlearch-3'] == 'true'
uses: ./.github/workflows/backend_build.yml
with:
tag-latest: ${{ matrix.tag-latest }}
tag-suffix: ${{ matrix.tag-suffix }}
build-type: ${{ matrix.build-type }}
cuda-major-version: ${{ matrix.cuda-major-version }}
cuda-minor-version: ${{ matrix.cuda-minor-version }}
platforms: ${{ matrix.platforms }}
platform-tag: ${{ matrix.platform-tag || '' }}
runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
builder-base-image: ${{ matrix.builder-base-image || '' }}
base-image: ${{ matrix.base-image }}
backend: ${{ matrix.backend }}
dockerfile: ${{ matrix.dockerfile }}
skip-drivers: ${{ matrix.skip-drivers }}
context: ${{ matrix.context }}
ubuntu-version: ${{ matrix.ubuntu-version }}
amdgpu-targets: ${{ matrix.amdgpu-targets || 'gfx908,gfx90a,gfx942,gfx950,gfx1030,gfx1100,gfx1101,gfx1102,gfx1151,gfx1200,gfx1201' }}
secrets:
dockerUsername: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
dockerPassword: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
quayUsername: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_USERNAME }}
quayPassword: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD }}
strategy:
fail-fast: false
max-parallel: 8
matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrix.outputs['matrix-singlearch-3']) }}
backend-jobs-singlearch-4:
needs: generate-matrix
if: needs.generate-matrix.outputs['has-backends-singlearch-4'] == 'true'
uses: ./.github/workflows/backend_build.yml
with:
tag-latest: ${{ matrix.tag-latest }}
tag-suffix: ${{ matrix.tag-suffix }}
build-type: ${{ matrix.build-type }}
cuda-major-version: ${{ matrix.cuda-major-version }}
cuda-minor-version: ${{ matrix.cuda-minor-version }}
platforms: ${{ matrix.platforms }}
platform-tag: ${{ matrix.platform-tag || '' }}
runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
builder-base-image: ${{ matrix.builder-base-image || '' }}
base-image: ${{ matrix.base-image }}
backend: ${{ matrix.backend }}
dockerfile: ${{ matrix.dockerfile }}
skip-drivers: ${{ matrix.skip-drivers }}
context: ${{ matrix.context }}
ubuntu-version: ${{ matrix.ubuntu-version }}
amdgpu-targets: ${{ matrix.amdgpu-targets || 'gfx908,gfx90a,gfx942,gfx950,gfx1030,gfx1100,gfx1101,gfx1102,gfx1151,gfx1200,gfx1201' }}
secrets:
dockerUsername: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
dockerPassword: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
quayUsername: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_USERNAME }}
quayPassword: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD }}
strategy:
fail-fast: false
max-parallel: 8
matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrix.outputs['matrix-singlearch-4']) }}
# Apply tags to per-arch digests via `imagetools create`. Split into two
# jobs that mirror the build split so each merge waits ONLY on its
# corresponding build matrix:
#
# - backend-merge-jobs-multiarch needs backend-jobs-multiarch (~2-3h)
# - backend-merge-jobs-singlearch needs backend-jobs-singlearch (up to ~6h)
#
# If a single shared merge job depended on both, slow CUDA singlearch
# builds would block multiarch merges long enough for quay's GC to reap
# the multiarch per-arch digests (the bug fixed by PR #9746). Singletons
# also need a merge step because backend_build.yml pushes by canonical
# digest only — no tags are applied at build time.
backend-merge-jobs-multiarch:
needs: [generate-matrix, backend-jobs-multiarch]
# !cancelled() lets the merge run even when a few build legs failed.
# Without it, GHA's default `needs:` cascade skips the entire merge
# matrix on a single failed/cancelled cell. We still want to publish
# the manifest lists for tag-suffixes whose legs all succeeded.
# Observed in v4.2.1: 2 singlearch build failures cascade-skipped all
# ~199 singlearch merge entries.
if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.generate-matrix.outputs['has-merges-multiarch'] == 'true' }}
uses: ./.github/workflows/backend_merge.yml
with:
tag-latest: ${{ matrix.tag-latest }}
tag-suffix: ${{ matrix.tag-suffix }}
secrets:
dockerUsername: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
dockerPassword: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
quayUsername: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_USERNAME }}
quayPassword: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD }}
strategy:
fail-fast: false
matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrix.outputs['merge-matrix-multiarch']) }}
# One merge shard per build shard: backend-merge-jobs-singlearch-<n> needs only
# backend-jobs-singlearch-<n>, preserving the "merge waits only on its own
# build" property while staying under the 256-jobs-per-matrix limit.
backend-merge-jobs-singlearch-1:
needs: [generate-matrix, backend-jobs-singlearch-1]
if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.generate-matrix.outputs['has-merges-singlearch-1'] == 'true' }}
uses: ./.github/workflows/backend_merge.yml
with:
tag-latest: ${{ matrix.tag-latest }}
tag-suffix: ${{ matrix.tag-suffix }}
secrets:
dockerUsername: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
dockerPassword: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
quayUsername: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_USERNAME }}
quayPassword: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD }}
strategy:
fail-fast: false
matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrix.outputs['merge-matrix-singlearch-1']) }}
backend-merge-jobs-singlearch-2:
needs: [generate-matrix, backend-jobs-singlearch-2]
if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.generate-matrix.outputs['has-merges-singlearch-2'] == 'true' }}
uses: ./.github/workflows/backend_merge.yml
with:
tag-latest: ${{ matrix.tag-latest }}
tag-suffix: ${{ matrix.tag-suffix }}
secrets:
dockerUsername: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
dockerPassword: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
quayUsername: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_USERNAME }}
quayPassword: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD }}
strategy:
fail-fast: false
matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrix.outputs['merge-matrix-singlearch-2']) }}
backend-merge-jobs-singlearch-3:
needs: [generate-matrix, backend-jobs-singlearch-3]
if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.generate-matrix.outputs['has-merges-singlearch-3'] == 'true' }}
uses: ./.github/workflows/backend_merge.yml
with:
tag-latest: ${{ matrix.tag-latest }}
tag-suffix: ${{ matrix.tag-suffix }}
secrets:
dockerUsername: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
dockerPassword: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
quayUsername: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_USERNAME }}
quayPassword: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD }}
strategy:
fail-fast: false
matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrix.outputs['merge-matrix-singlearch-3']) }}
backend-merge-jobs-singlearch-4:
needs: [generate-matrix, backend-jobs-singlearch-4]
if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.generate-matrix.outputs['has-merges-singlearch-4'] == 'true' }}
uses: ./.github/workflows/backend_merge.yml
with:
tag-latest: ${{ matrix.tag-latest }}
tag-suffix: ${{ matrix.tag-suffix }}
secrets:
dockerUsername: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
dockerPassword: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
quayUsername: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_USERNAME }}
quayPassword: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD }}
strategy:
fail-fast: false
matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrix.outputs['merge-matrix-singlearch-4']) }}
backend-jobs-darwin:
needs: generate-matrix
if: needs.generate-matrix.outputs.has-backends-darwin == 'true'
uses: ./.github/workflows/backend_build_darwin.yml
with:
backend: ${{ matrix.backend }}
build-type: ${{ matrix.build-type }}
go-version: "1.25.x"
tag-suffix: ${{ matrix.tag-suffix }}
lang: ${{ matrix.lang || 'python' }}
use-pip: ${{ matrix.backend == 'diffusers' }}
runs-on: "macos-latest"
secrets:
dockerUsername: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
dockerPassword: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
quayUsername: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_USERNAME }}
quayPassword: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD }}
strategy:
fail-fast: false
matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrix.outputs.matrix-darwin) }}