ecmchow/drone-s3-cache repository overview

⁠drone-s3-cache⁠

Customized Drone CI plugin for caching build artifacts to S3 compatible storage backends. For the usage information and a listing of the available options please take a look at the official docs⁠.

Customized by ecmchow https://github.com/ecmchow/drone-s3-cache⁠

⁠Customization

This plugin is modified to support additional S2 (an extension of Snappy)⁠ & ZSTD (Zstandard)⁠ compression.

Same as official plugin, you may use filename property to specify your artifact filename and control its compression with file extension.

kind: pipeline
type: docker
name: Build

steps:
- name: restore
  image: ecmchow/drone-s3-cache
  settings:
    # no compression by default
    filename: cache.tar.gz # GZIP compression
    filename: cache.tar.sz # S2 compression
    filename: cache.tar.zst # ZSTD compression

⁠Choosing compression

For reference, a NodeJS project with 3.0GB of node_modules running on a 8 core runner with 10gbe network. Cache is uploaded to and downloaded from a single MinIO instance

• Use S2 compression for best overall performance
• Use ZSTD compression if you need best compression ratio to save storage space