How to cache maven dependencies in Docker

Question

I\'m working on a project with ~200MB dependencies and i\'d like to avoid useless uploads due to my limited bandwidth.

When I push my Dockerfile (i\'ll attach it in a m

Answer 1

The documentation of the official Maven Docker images also points out different ways to achieve better caching of dependencies.

Basically, they recommend to either mount the local maven repository as a volume and use it across Docker images or use a special local repository (/usr/share/maven/ref/) the contents of which will be copied on container startup.