I want to have a good setup for a Gitlab CI pipeline.
I need a lot of apt packages to be installed and now I use a before_script to do this but then this happens on every stage in the pipeline. How can I get my pipeline to do this installation of packages just once?
I tried the following in a build stage and than add a cache on cache/apt:
apt-get -o dir::cache::archives="cache/apt" install
But that did not work the installation of the dependencies is done all over in the next stage.
Example .gitlab-ci.yml:
image: "ubuntu:16.04"
stages:
- build
- test
cache:
paths:
- cache/apt
setup:
stage: setup
script:
- apt-get -o dir::cache::archives="/cache/apt" install -y -qq --force-yes list-of-packages
test:
stage: test
script:
- test scripts