How to enable maven artifact caching for gitlab ci runner?

Question

We use gitlab ci with shared runners to do our continuous integration. For each build, the runner downloads tons of maven artifacts.

Is there a way to configure gitl

Answer 1

I was able to use a host volume to share my .m2 repository directory. This also had the advantage of sharing over my settings.xml file (which not everyone may want). I found this to be faster than using the cache solutions mentioned.

[[runners]]
  [runners.docker]
    volumes = ["/home//.m2:/root/.m2"]