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CircleCI Config with Cache and Workspace

A CircleCI 2.1 config with a two-job workflow, a fallback cache-key list, workspace persistence between jobs, and a test-results store. The baseline the other CircleCI fixtures vary from.

Preview — first 47 linesyml
version: 2.1

jobs:
  build:
    docker:
      - image: registry.example.invalid/ci/node:20
    working_directory: ~/repo
    steps:
      - checkout
      - restore_cache:
          keys:
            - deps-v1-{{ checksum "package-lock.json" }}
            - deps-v1-
      - run:
          name: Install
          command: npm ci
      - save_cache:
          key: deps-v1-{{ checksum "package-lock.json" }}
          paths:
            - ~/.npm
      - run:
          name: Build
          command: npm run build
      - persist_to_workspace:
          root: .
          paths:
            - build

  test:
    docker:
      - image: registry.example.invalid/ci/node:20
    steps:
      - checkout
      - attach_workspace:
          at: .
      - run: npm test
      - store_test_results:
          path: reports

workflows:
  build-and-test:
    jobs:
      - build
      - test:
          requires:
            - build

Specifications

System
CircleCI
Config Version
2.1
Jobs
2
Workflows
1
Cache Keys
2
Uses Workspace
true

Testing contract

Expected to pass
Scenario
Read a CircleCI config's job graph, cache keys, and workspace handoff
Expected result
Two jobs resolve with test requiring build, and the restore_cache step lists two keys in fallback order

What is a .yml file?

YML is an alternate file extension for YAML, a human-readable data-serialization format based on indentation, key-value mappings, and lists. The content and parsing rules are identical to .yaml; only the extension differs. It is widely used for CI and application configuration files.

How to use this file

Use an example YML file to test that config loaders treat .yml and .yaml identically, and to exercise indentation, comment, and multi-document parsing.

How to use this file for testing

“CircleCI Config with Cache and Workspace” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Config testing, Config parsing, Editor testing. TOML, INI, YAML, .env, and dotfile configuration samples with nested sections and typed values — for testing config parsers, loaders, and environment tooling.

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Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

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Point your config loader at the file and assert it reads the documented sections and typed values, including any deliberately-tricky nesting or comments.

Code examples

import yaml  # pip install pyyaml

with open("circleci-config-basic.yml") as f:
    data = yaml.safe_load(f)
print(data)

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