diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 33cd360d2d6c01f02a1d5dfb9354ade97fa89fd8..2ef16be0f55bf1b0f72d59e3022d4c0f070a4498 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -102,9 +102,12 @@ build_cluster_cicd:
 
 ansible_create_cluster_stage:
   stage: ansible_create_cluster_stage
-    #  cache:
-    #paths:
-    #  - CICD/
+      cache:
+    paths:
+      - CICD/inventory.yml
+      - CICD/tmp_key
+      - CICD/tmp_key.pub
+      - CICD/infra/os_vars.yml
   tags:
   - ansible
   script:
@@ -114,8 +117,8 @@ ansible_create_cluster_stage:
     - ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml --key-file ../tmp_key.pem 
     - sleep 15
     - echo uglyuglyfix
-    - ansible -i inventory.yml --key-file ../tmp_key.pem -b -a "systemctl restart slurmdbd" ManagementNodes
-    - ansible -i inventory.yml --key-file ../tmp_key.pem -b -a "systemctl restart slurmctld" ManagementNodes
+    - ansible -i inventory.yml --key-file tmp_key -b -a "systemctl restart slurmdbd" ManagementNodes
+    - ansible -i inventory.yml --key-file tmp_key -b -a "systemctl restart slurmctld" ManagementNodes
       #    - cd plays
       #    - ansible-playbook -i files/inventory.$STACKNAME --key-file ../../gc_key.pem --skip-tags monitoring computenodes.yml | tee nochange.log
       #    - echo [ `grep changed= ./nochange.log -c` = `grep changed=0 ./nochange.log -c` ] > bashtest.sh   # a crude way to make sure all changed lines are equal to changed=0