From c1c0506d2c1cd0d7cea663c8b633db8f4424b647 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yuneng Jiang <yuneng@berri.ai>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2026 21:19:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [Perf] CI: Skip Redundant Playwright Apt Install in E2E UI
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The cimg/python:3.12-browsers base image already ships every Chromium
system dependency Playwright needs (libnss3, libatk-bridge2.0-0,
libcups2, etc. — the install log shows them all as "already the newest
version"). Passing --with-deps to `npx playwright install` therefore
runs an apt-get update + install for nothing, but pays the full cost of
hitting Ubuntu mirrors. On a recent run those mirrors stalled hard:
apt-get update alone took 6m53s at 81.5 kB/s with several archives
returning connection refused.

Drop --with-deps and persist ~/.cache/ms-playwright alongside
node_modules so the Chromium binary is also reused across runs. Bump
the cache key to v2 so the existing v1 entry (which only contained
node_modules) is not loaded and skipped over the new browser path.
---
 .circleci/config.yml | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index d2c4906ef6..87db1bc928 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -2138,17 +2138,23 @@ jobs:
             - ~/.cache/uv
       - restore_cache:
           keys:
-            - ui-e2e-node-deps-v1-{{ checksum "ui/litellm-dashboard/package-lock.json" }}
+            - ui-e2e-node-deps-v2-{{ checksum "ui/litellm-dashboard/package-lock.json" }}
       - run:
           name: Install Node dependencies and Playwright
+          # The cimg/python:3.12-browsers image already ships the Chromium system
+          # libraries Playwright needs (libnss3, libatk-bridge2.0-0, libcups2, etc.).
+          # `--with-deps` triggers a redundant apt-get update + install that adds
+          # 5-10 minutes to the job and frequently stalls on flaky Ubuntu mirrors,
+          # so we install just the browser binary.
           command: |
             cd ui/litellm-dashboard
             npm ci
-            npx playwright install chromium --with-deps
+            npx playwright install chromium
       - save_cache:
-          key: ui-e2e-node-deps-v1-{{ checksum "ui/litellm-dashboard/package-lock.json" }}
+          key: ui-e2e-node-deps-v2-{{ checksum "ui/litellm-dashboard/package-lock.json" }}
           paths:
             - ui/litellm-dashboard/node_modules
+            - ~/.cache/ms-playwright
       - run:
           name: Build UI from source
           # Prior version used `cp -r out/ ../../litellm/proxy/_experimental/out/`.