Question: Same Artifact for multiple stages (dev, qa, prod)?

[jensbarthel]

Motivation

• Reduce build time by running artifact creation (e.g. gradle azureFunctionsPackage/-Zip) only once
• Have artifact consistency across stages

Approach

• Build job
  • Run gradle azureFunctionsPackage/-Zip
  • Upload to GHA cache via upload-artifact action
• Deploy Job (for each stage)
  • Download artifact from GHA cache via download-artifact action to gradle build folder
  • Run gradle azurefunctionsDeploy

Question

• Which artifacts would have to be stored and downloaded to prevent a build during azureFunctionsDeploy?

[MartinX3]

I use Spring Boot.

Also it would be nice to use the already created .jar file from a build step.
Currently I can't use the gradle caching since using this plugin,
My pipeline time is now twice as long.
(Test stage time doubled and the default stage of this plugin is slower than my previous gradle bootJar stage.)