CI pipelines sometimes fail with: > MANIFEST_SIZE_LIMIT: payload size limit exceeded; errors verifying manifest: manifest payload size of 259189 exceeds limit of 256000 ## Root cause For some images the cache is rarely invalidated, so the manifest is re-signed many times, causing the manifest to exceed the allowed size. ## Workaround ### In MR pipelines * trigger a new pipeline with `FORCE_IMAGE_BUILDS=true` ### In release pipelines * set `FORCE_IMAGE_BUILDS=true` * rebuilt the affected images * rerun `sync-images-artifact-registry` and then `sync-images-gitlab-com` ## Additional Context * Slack (good for 90 days): https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/C1FCTU4BE/p1729686918834719