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+# GitLab CI Cache Usage Examples
+
+This repo contains usage examples for the GitLab CI cache and is referenced
+in the Bits and Bytes edition 210 from August 2022.
+
+Two examples are shown, the second being specific to MPCDF shared runners:
+
+1. Python CI with cached third-party dependency
+2. CUDA CI pipeline, building the CUDA code on a CPU runner and using the cache to forward the build to a GPU runner to execute the test there