diff --git a/.github/workflows/failure-cases.yml b/.github/workflows/failure-cases.yml
index a3e0779..fa91cd4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/failure-cases.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/failure-cases.yml
@@ -34,4 +34,4 @@ jobs:
       with:
         build-root-directory: __tests__/samples/no-wrapper
         arguments: help
-        gradle-cache-enabled: no
+        cache-disabled: yes
diff --git a/.github/workflows/integration-testing.yml b/.github/workflows/integration-testing.yml
index dfc2614..90d8951 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/integration-testing.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/integration-testing.yml
@@ -51,21 +51,21 @@ jobs:
         gradle-version: 6.9
         build-root-directory: __tests__/samples/no-wrapper
         arguments: help -DgradleVersionCheck=6.9
-        gradle-cache-enabled: read-only
+        cache-read-only: true
     - name: Test use Gradle version alias
       uses: ./
       with:
         gradle-version: release-candidate
         build-root-directory: __tests__/samples/no-wrapper
         arguments: help -DgradleVersionCheck=7.2
-        gradle-cache-enabled: read-only
+        cache-read-only: true
     - name: Test use defined Gradle executable
       uses: ./
       with:
         gradle-executable: __tests__/samples/basic/gradlew${{ matrix.script-suffix }}
         build-root-directory: __tests__/samples/no-wrapper
         arguments: help -DgradleVersionCheck=7.1.1
-        gradle-cache-enabled: read-only
+        cache-read-only: true
 
   # Test that the gradle-user-home cache will cache dependencies, by running build with --offline
   dependencies-cache:
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ jobs:
       with:
         build-root-directory: __tests__/samples/basic
         arguments: test --offline
-        gradle-cache-enabled: read-only
+        cache-read-only: true
 
   # Test that the gradle-user-home cache will cache and restore local build-cache
   build-cache:
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ jobs:
       with:
         build-root-directory: __tests__/samples/basic
         arguments: test -DverifyCachedBuild=true
-        gradle-cache-enabled: read-only
+        cache-read-only: true
 
   # Test that the project-dot-gradle cache will cache and restore configuration-cache
   configuration-cache:
@@ -118,4 +118,4 @@ jobs:
       with:
         build-root-directory: __tests__/samples/basic
         arguments: test --configuration-cache
-        gradle-cache-enabled: read-only
+        cache-read-only: true
diff --git a/action.yml b/action.yml
index 081f151..8e6c5c3 100644
--- a/action.yml
+++ b/action.yml
@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@ inputs:
   arguments:
     description: Gradle command line arguments, see gradle --help
     required: false
-  distributions-cache-enabled:
-    description: Whether caching downloaded Gradle distributions is enabled or not. Valid values are 'true' (default), 'false', and 'read-only'.
+  cache-disabled:
+    description: When 'true', all caching is disabled. No entries will be written to or read from the cache.
     required: false
-    default: true
-  gradle-cache-enabled:
-    description: Whether caching of Gradle User Home and project .gradle directory is enabled. Valid values are 'true' (default), 'false', and 'read-only'.
+    default: false
+  cache-read-only:
+    description: When 'true', existing entries will be read from the cache but no entries will be written
     required: false
-    default: true
+    default: false
   workflow-job-context:
     description: Used to uniquely identify the current job invocation. Defaults to the matrix values for this job; this should not be overridden by users.
     required: false
diff --git a/src/cache-utils.ts b/src/cache-utils.ts
index c5346c1..3ba2ae2 100644
--- a/src/cache-utils.ts
+++ b/src/cache-utils.ts
@@ -3,27 +3,12 @@ import * as cache from '@actions/cache'
 import * as github from '@actions/github'
 import * as crypto from 'crypto'
 
-export function isCacheReadEnabled(cacheName: string): boolean {
-    const configValue = getCacheEnabledValue(cacheName)
-    return configValue === 'true' || configValue === 'read-only'
+export function isCacheDisabled(): boolean {
+    return core.getBooleanInput('cache-disabled')
 }
 
-export function isCacheSaveEnabled(cacheName: string): boolean {
-    const configValue = getCacheEnabledValue(cacheName)
-    return configValue === 'true'
-}
-
-function getCacheEnabledValue(cacheName: string): string {
-    const configValue = core
-        .getInput(`${cacheName}-cache-enabled`)
-        .toLowerCase()
-
-    if (['true', 'false', 'read-only'].includes(configValue)) {
-        return configValue
-    }
-    throw new Error(
-        `Invalid cache-enabled parameter '${configValue}'. Valid values are ['true', 'false', 'read-only']`
-    )
+export function isCacheReadOnly(): boolean {
+    return core.getBooleanInput('cache-read-only')
 }
 
 export function isCacheDebuggingEnabled(): boolean {
diff --git a/src/caches.ts b/src/caches.ts
index 562bc55..39fe7e4 100644
--- a/src/caches.ts
+++ b/src/caches.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 import {GradleUserHomeCache} from './cache-gradle-user-home'
 import {ProjectDotGradleCache} from './cache-project-dot-gradle'
 import * as core from '@actions/core'
-import {isCacheReadEnabled, isCacheSaveEnabled} from './cache-utils'
+import {isCacheDisabled, isCacheReadOnly} from './cache-utils'
 
 const BUILD_ROOT_DIR = 'BUILD_ROOT_DIR'
 
 export async function restore(buildRootDirectory: string): Promise<void> {
-    if (!isCacheReadEnabled('gradle')) {
+    if (isCacheDisabled()) {
         core.debug('Cache read disabled')
         return
     }
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ export async function restore(buildRootDirectory: string): Promise<void> {
 }
 
 export async function save(): Promise<void> {
-    if (!isCacheSaveEnabled('gradle')) {
-        core.debug('Cache save disabled')
+    if (isCacheReadOnly()) {
+        core.debug('Cache is read-only: not saving cache entry')
         return
     }
 
diff --git a/src/provision.ts b/src/provision.ts
index d487acf..6cbbd9c 100644
--- a/src/provision.ts
+++ b/src/provision.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import * as cache from '@actions/cache'
 import * as toolCache from '@actions/tool-cache'
 
 import * as gradlew from './gradlew'
-import {isCacheReadEnabled, isCacheSaveEnabled} from './cache-utils'
+import {isCacheDisabled, isCacheReadOnly} from './cache-utils'
 
 const gradleVersionsBaseUrl = 'https://services.gradle.org/versions'
 
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ async function downloadAndCacheGradleDistribution(
         `gradle-installations/downloads/gradle-${versionInfo.version}-bin.zip`
     )
 
-    if (!isCacheReadEnabled('distributions')) {
+    if (isCacheDisabled()) {
         await downloadGradleDistribution(versionInfo, downloadPath)
         return downloadPath
     }
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ async function downloadAndCacheGradleDistribution(
     )
     await downloadGradleDistribution(versionInfo, downloadPath)
 
-    if (isCacheSaveEnabled('distributions')) {
+    if (!isCacheReadOnly()) {
         try {
             await cache.saveCache([downloadPath], cacheKey)
         } catch (error) {