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Mirek D��ugosz: Interesting bugs: Artifact building failure caused by GitHub API rate��limits
- A memorable bug encountered at work involved GitHub API rate limits causing artifact building failure in a Jenkins pipeline.
- The bug surfaced issues not visible in local development and showcased the value of broad knowledge in troubleshooting.
- The pipeline step aimed to build a container image from code versions with proposed changes in a standard web app architecture setup.
- GitHub API requests for extracting the newest frontend version led to HTTP status 429 errors due to rate limits, despite small team activity.
- Investigation revealed different rate limits for authenticated users, prompting a hypothesis on shared IP addresses in the company.
- Updating API requests with authentication tokens increased the rate limit from 60 to 5000 per hour, resolving the rate limit issue.
- Challenges in passing the token through multiple layers in the container build environment led to implementing secret mounting for security.
- This solution ensured pipeline success without API rate limit errors, providing a correct resolution to the artifact building problem.
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