Pass data between Gitlab pipelines

Question

I need to pass the folders generated in one pipeline to the next pipeline in Gitlab CI. What are the possible ways?

1. Is it possible through just Artifacts?
2. Can we only achieve it through cache?
3. If by Cache, is there any expiry that we can set in cache?

My actual question was (but no answers so far) : Carry artifacts of Gitlab pages between pipelines/jobs

Answer 1

There is a simple distinction:

• Cache is used between multiple runs of the same job in different pipelines and also on the same runner (unless you have configured a shared cache storage)
• Artifacts are used to pass files between different jobs within a single pipeline

Jobs may specify an artifacts:expire_in keyword to control the lifespan of their artifacts (see https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/README.html#artifactsexpire_in ).