Remote Caching
Turborepo's task cache can save a lot of time by never doing the same work twice.
But there's an issue - the cache is local to your machine. When you're working with a CI, this can result in a lot of duplicated work:
Since Turborepo only caches to the local filesystem by default, the same task (turbo run build
) must be re-executed on each machine (by you, by your teammates, by your CI, by your PaaS, etc.) even when all of the task inputs are identical — which wastes time and resources.
A single, shared cache
What if you could share a single Turborepo cache across your entire team (and even your CI)?
By working with providers like Vercel, Turborepo can securely communicate with a remote cache - a cloud server that stores the results of your tasks.
This can save enormous amounts of time by preventing duplicated work across your entire organization.
Remote Caching is a powerful feature of Turborepo, but with great power comes great responsibility. Make sure you are caching correctly first and double check handling of environment variables. Please also remember Turborepo treats logs as artifacts, so be aware of what you are printing to the console.
Vercel
For Local Development
If you want to link your local turborepo to your Remote Cache, first authenticate the Turborepo CLI with your Vercel account:
npx turbo login
Next, link your Turborepo to your remote cache:
npx turbo link
Once enabled, make some changes to a workspace you are currently caching and run tasks against it with turbo run
.
Your cache artifacts will now be stored locally and in your Remote Cache.
To verify, delete your local Turborepo cache with:
sh rm -rf ./node_modules/.cache/turbo
Then run the same build again. If things are working properly, turbo
should not execute tasks locally, but rather download both the logs and artifacts from your Remote Cache and replay them back to you.
Remote Caching on Vercel Builds
If you are building and hosting your apps on Vercel, Remote Caching will be automatically set up on your behalf once you use turbo
. You need to update your build settings to build with turbo
.
Please refer to the Vercel documentation for instructions.
Artifact Integrity and Authenticity Verification
You can enable Turborepo to sign artifacts with a secret key before uploading them to the Remote Cache. Turborepo uses HMAC-SHA256
signatures on artifacts using a secret key you provide.
Turborepo will verify the remote cache artifacts' integrity and authenticity when they're downloaded.
Any artifacts that fail to verify will be ignored and treated as a cache miss by Turborepo.
To enable this feature, set the remoteCache
options on your turbo.json
config to include signature: true
. Then specify your secret key by declaring the TURBO_REMOTE_CACHE_SIGNATURE_KEY
environment variable.
{
"$schema": "https://turbo.build/schema.json",
"remoteCache": {
// Indicates if signature verification is enabled.
"signature": true
}
}
Custom Remote Caches
You can self-host your own Remote Cache or use other remote caching service providers as long as they comply with Turborepo's Remote Caching Server API.
You can set the remote caching domain by specifying the --api
and --token
flags, where --api
is the hostname and --token
is a bearer token.
turbo run build --api="https://my-server.example.com" --token="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
You can see the endpoints / requests needed here.