[FLINK-21561] Introduce cache for binaries downloaded by bash tests

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.13.0
• Component/s: Build System / CI, Test Infrastructure
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Mika Naylor
• Reporter: Robert Metzger
• Created: 02/Mar/21 15:26
• Updated: 30/Mar/21 07:58
• Resolved: 19/Mar/21 07:14

Description

It seems that archive.apache.org is currently very slow, causing the bash e2e tests to timeout, because they need a lot of time downloading dependencies.

This ticket is for tracking an improvement to the bash-based e2e tests to cache the binaries in Azure pipelines Caches [1].

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/release/caching?view=azure-devops

Issue Links

• contains: FLINK-21545 Running Kerberized YARN per-job on Docker test stalls on azure
• is related to: FLINK-21796 SQLClientKafkaITCase.testKafka fails to download Kafka
• relates to: FLINK-21103 E2e tests time out on azure
• relates to: FLINK-21545 Running Kerberized YARN per-job on Docker test stalls on azure
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #15065
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #15086