Pipeline cache grows in size

[tamizhazhagan]

Hi,

I have a Java-Maven build pipeline where I use pipeline caching to restore dependencies.

I see after like a month of pipeline usage the cache grows in size. Initially the size is around 1GB but later it crosses 12GB, what I'm concerned is if even if there is a cache miss, dependencies should get overridden , but this is getting appended. As a workaround I'm currently changing the cache key name to version2, version3 etc., so cache will be refreshed. Any insights would be appreciated. TIA

Task:

  - task: Cache@2

    displayName: Cache Maven repo on the build pipe line node

    inputs:

      key: 'version1 | maven | "$(Agent.OS)" | **/pom.xml'

      path: $(Pipeline.Workspace)/.m2/repository

[#2]

@tamizhazhagan 

Please see if this can help:

Pipeline caching - Azure Pipelines | Microsoft Learn

[#3]

Thanks for response, but this doesn't help though.