kaya-rbcs

A simplified Python clone of RBCS (Remote Build Cache Server) built on the Kaya web framework.

It implements only the two core cache endpoints — GET and PUT — persisting values to memcached. Authentication, RBAC, rate limiting, TRACE health checks, compression and TLS are intentionally left out.

Behavior

The cache key is the request path relative to a configurable URL prefix (default /), normalized (.. segments are resolved). Values are stored in memcached together with the Content-Type and Content-Disposition metadata sent on upload, mirroring RBCS' CacheValueMetadata.

Request	Response
PUT /<key>	201 Created, body = key, Content-Type: text/plain
GET /<key> (hit)	200 OK, body = value, stored Content-Type / Content-Disposition
GET /<key> (miss)	404 Not Found, empty body
GET/PUT outside prefix	400 Bad Request

Installation

pip install -e .            # + kaya-core, aiomcache
pip install -e .[server]    # additionally installs granian + kaya-rsgi

Requires Python 3.10+ and a running memcached.

Running

Start the server with the rbcs-server console script or python -m kaya_rbcs:

rbcs-server

Configuration is read from environment variables:

Variable	Default	Description
RBCS_HOST	127.0.0.1	Bind address
RBCS_PORT	8080	Bind port
RBCS_PATH_PREFIX	/	URL prefix that maps to the cache
RBCS_MEMCACHE_HOST	127.0.0.1	Memcached host
RBCS_MEMCACHE_PORT	11211	Memcached port
RBCS_KEY_PREFIX	(unset)	String appended to each cache key
RBCS_DIGEST	(unset)	Hash the key with this algorithm (e.g. sha256)
RBCS_MAX_AGE	7d	Value TTL (s/m/h/d)

The app is also a plain ASGI application, so it can be served by any ASGI server, e.g. daphne kaya_rbcs.app:app.

Usage example

curl -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream' \
     --data-binary @build-output.tar http://localhost:8080/my-module/build
curl http://localhost:8080/my-module/build -o build-output.tar

Tests

python -m unittest discover -s tests

Tests use an in-process fake memcached (text protocol), so they run offline with no external dependencies.

Layout

src/kaya_rbcs/
├── __init__.py    # package exports + `rbcs-server` entry point
├── __main__.py    # Granian (RSGI) launcher
├── config.py      # env-based configuration
├── store.py       # MemcacheStore: value+metadata encoding, key processing
└── app.py         # create_app(): KayaApp with GET/PUT recursive routes
tests/
├── fake_memcached.py
└── test_app.py