We run the sonar runner on pipelines that use ephemeral containers and ephemeral volumes. In order to reduce the amount of downloads with the plugins we have a separate pipeline that downloads the sonar plugins, creates a tarball and makes it available for other pipelines to install.
Today the tarball is near 300MB and while taking a look at ti we notices that the jar files are unzipped:
17:35:27 cache/49e2cda2295ccbb9beb9ed9759de1d67/sonar-java-plugin.jar
17:35:27 cache/49e2cda2295ccbb9beb9ed9759de1d67/sonar-java-plugin.jar_unzip/
This causes us to create a tarball with duplicated information. We only want to save on downloading from the internet and we do not care about the jar_unzip folders. Will it be ok to exclude these folders from our tarballs, or are they necessary?
We could untag the tarball then recreate the jar_unzip
folders from the jar files if necessary. This would probably allow us to have a sonar_cache.tgz file with half of the current size.