ci(Caching): Cache gradle and node dependencies to improve build and test speeds

Use the gradle build cache to improve build and test times. While this still does not improve the docker tests, it at least improves the speed of our gradle tests. It also generates less traffic for third party services and less traffic for our own server, which is nice.

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ variables:
   SCAN_KUBERNETES_MANIFESTS: "false"
   SECRETS_ANALYZER_VERSION: "3"
   SECRET_DETECTION_EXCLUDED_PATHS: ""
+  GRADLE_OPTS: "-Dorg.gradle.daemon=false"
+  GRADLE_USER_HOME: "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/.gradle"
 
 services:
   - name: ghcr.io/griefed/gitlab-ci-cd:2.0.9
@@ -27,6 +29,13 @@ workflow:
       when: never
     - when: always
 
+cache:
+  paths:
+    - frontend/node_modules
+    - frontend/node
+    - build
+    - .gradle
+
 sast:
   stage: Tests
   artifacts:
@@ -261,8 +270,6 @@ Sign Java Publication:
     - java -version
     - echo "**** Allowing execution of gradlew ****"
     - chmod +x gradlew
-    - echo "**** Ensure clean environment ****"
-    - "./gradlew clean"
   script:
     - echo "**** Publishing Maven Artifacts ****"
     - "./gradlew signMavenJavaPublication -Pversion=${CI_COMMIT_TAG} -x test --info --stacktrace"
@@ -454,7 +461,6 @@ pages:
   before_script:
     - which java
     - chmod +x gradlew
-    - "./gradlew clean"
   script:
     - "./gradlew javaDoc -Pversion='' --info -x test"
     - cp -Rf build/docs/javadoc public