How can caching and artifacts speed up OPA Gatekeeper on GitLab CI?

Caching and artifacts play a crucial role in speeding up the Open Policy Agent (OPA) Gatekeeper integration within GitLab CI pipelines. By utilizing caching mechanisms, you can significantly reduce the time taken for dependency installation and repeated tasks, while artifacts allow you to preserve the build outputs for reuse in subsequent jobs. This approach is not only efficient but also enhances the overall CI/CD experience.

# Example GitLab CI configuration for OPA Gatekeeper with caching and artifacts stages: - validate validate: stage: validate image: openpolicyagent/opa:latest script: - opa test ./path/to/policies cache: key: ${CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG} paths: - .opa_cache/ artifacts: paths: - opa_results/ expire_in: 1 week

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