Cache Maven dependencies in Tekton Maven Task from Tekton Hub - java

We want to build a Spring Boot-based project using Maven. We found the Maven Task on the Tekton Hub and already have a running Pipeline. In a shortened version our pipeline.yml looks like this:
apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: Pipeline
metadata:
name: buildpacks-test-pipeline
spec:
params:
- name: SOURCE_URL
type: string
description: A git repo url where the source code resides.
- name: SOURCE_REVISION
description: The branch, tag or SHA to checkout.
default: ""
workspaces:
- name: maven-settings
- name: source-workspace
tasks:
- name: fetch-repository
taskRef:
name: git-clone
workspaces:
- name: output
workspace: source-workspace
params:
- name: url
value: "$(params.SOURCE_URL)"
- name: revision
value: "$(params.SOURCE_REVISION)"
- name: subdirectory
value: ""
- name: deleteExisting
value: "true"
- name: maven
taskRef:
name: maven
runAfter:
- fetch-repository
params:
- name: GOALS
value:
- package
workspaces:
- name: source
workspace: source-workspace
- name: maven-settings
workspace: maven-settings
And a PipelineRun is defined as:
apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: PipelineRun
metadata:
generateName: buildpacks-test-pipeline-run-
spec:
pipelineRef:
name: buildpacks-test-pipeline
workspaces:
- name: maven-settings
emptyDir: {}
- name: source-workspace
subPath: source
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: source-pvc
params:
- name: SOURCE_URL
value: https://gitlab.com/jonashackt/microservice-api-spring-boot
- name: SOURCE_REVISION
value: 3c4131f8566ef157244881bacc474543ef96755d
The source-pvc PersistentVolumeClaim is defined as:
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
name: source-pvc
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
resources:
requests:
storage: 500Mi
Our project is being build fine, but the Task downloads all the project's Maven dependencies over and over again when we start another PipelineRun:
The Tekton Hub's Maven Task https://hub.tekton.dev/tekton/task/maven doesn't seem to support using a cache. How can we cache nevertheless?

There's an easy way to accomplish caching using Tekto Hub's Maven Task. Instead of specifying an empty directory in the maven-settings workspace with emptyDir: {} you need to create a new subPath inside your already defined source-pvc PersistentVolumeClaim. Also link the persistentVolumeClaim the same way as you already linked it for the source-workspace. Your PipelineRun now somehow looks like this:
apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: PipelineRun
metadata:
generateName: buildpacks-test-pipeline-run-
spec:
pipelineRef:
name: buildpacks-test-pipeline
workspaces:
- name: maven-settings
subPath: maven-repo-cache
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: source-pvc
- name: source-workspace
subPath: source
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: source-pvc
params:
- name: SOURCE_URL
value: https://gitlab.com/jonashackt/microservice-api-spring-boot
- name: SOURCE_REVISION
value: 3c4131f8566ef157244881bacc474543ef96755d
Now the new subPath is already available via the maven-settings workspace inside the Tekton Hub's Maven Task (which doesn't implement an extra cache workspace right now). We only need to tell Maven to use the path workspaces.maven-settings.path as the cache repository.
Therefore we add -Dmaven.repo.local=$(workspaces.maven-settings.path) as a value to the GOALS parameter of the maven Task like this:
apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: Pipeline
metadata:
name: buildpacks-test-pipeline
spec:
params:
- name: SOURCE_URL
type: string
description: A git repo url where the source code resides.
- name: SOURCE_REVISION
description: The branch, tag or SHA to checkout.
default: ""
workspaces:
- name: maven-settings
- name: source-workspace
tasks:
- name: fetch-repository # This task fetches a repository from github, using the `git-clone` task you installed
taskRef:
name: git-clone
workspaces:
- name: output
workspace: source-workspace
params:
- name: url
value: "$(params.SOURCE_URL)"
- name: revision
value: "$(params.SOURCE_REVISION)"
- name: subdirectory
value: ""
- name: deleteExisting
value: "true"
- name: maven
taskRef:
name: maven
runAfter:
- fetch-repository
params:
- name: GOALS
value:
- -Dmaven.repo.local=$(workspaces.maven-settings.path)
- verify
workspaces:
- name: source
workspace: source-workspace
- name: maven-settings
workspace: maven-settings
Now after the first pipeline execution every next run should re-use the Maven repository inside the maven-settings workspace. This should also prevent the log from beeing polluted with Maven Download statements and speeds up the pipeline depending on the number of dependencies:
Our simple example builds more than twice as fast.

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java.io.IOException: Invalid string; unexpected character: 253 hex: fd
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at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ThreadContextStruct.<init>(ThreadContext.java:362) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.0.jar:5.6.0]
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ThreadContextStruct.<init>(ThreadContext.java:352) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.0.jar:5.6.0]
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at
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