worker cache

Synopsis

Inside a project, you can create or retrieve a cache from your worker with a tag (useful for vendors for example).

You can access to this cache from any workflow inside a project. You just have to choose a tag that fits with your needs.

For example if you need a different cache for each workflow so choose a tag scoped with your workflow name and workflow version (example of tag value: {{.cds.workflow}}-{{.cds.version}})

Use Case

Java Developers often use maven to manage dependencies. The mvn install command could be long because all the maven dependencies have to be downloaded on a fresh CDS Job workspace. With the worker cache feature, you don’t have to download the dependencies if they haven’t been updated since the last run of the job.

Here, an example of a script inside a CDS Job using the cache feature:

#!/bin/bash

tag=($(md5sum pom.xml))

# download the cache of .m2/
if worker cache pull $tag; then
	echo ".m2/ getted from cache";
fi

# update the directory .m2/
# as there is a cache, mvn does not need to download all dependencies
# if they are not updated on upstream
mvn install

# put in cache the updated .m2/ directory
worker cache push $tag .m2/

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