Uploading artifacts too large archive - Gitlab pipeline

 

FATAL: too large  gitlab pipeline 😎

ERROR: Uploading artifacts as "archive" to coordinator... too large archive

Today I have updated some node version in my gitlab ci pipeline, After upgrading the version I ran the pipeline and I got an error that ERROR: Uploading artifacts as "archive" to coordinator... too large archive. 🔻

node_modules/: found 57656 matching files and directories 
ERROR: Uploading artifacts as "archive" to coordinator... too large archive  id=31845 responseStatus=413 Payload Too Large status=413 token=YGCc9B7z
FATAL: too large                                   
Cleaning up file based variables
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ERROR: Job failed: command terminated with exit code 1

I spent some time debugging this error and finally I fixed this error. Issue was related to the maximum artifact size limit. In my Gitlab maximum artifacts limit was set to 100MB which is the default artifact upload size limit. Here are the steps to resolve this error.

In your Gitlab, Go to Admin settings > Continuous Integration and Deployment > Maximum artifacts size (MB) and increase the value of the artifact size.

You can set this limit to a different level.

1. Instance level

Go to Admin Area > Settings > CI/CD and change the value of maximum artifacts size.

2. Project level

Go to Project's Settings > CI/CD >  General Pipelines and change the value of maximum artifacts size.

3. Group level

Go to the Group's Settings > CI/CD >  General Pipelines and change the value of maximum artifacts size.

And click on the save changes and re-run the pipeline.  😍😍😍