Unity Cache Server Setup and Linking with Azure DevOps Builds

This video outlines how to setup Unity Accelerator (Caching Server) on windows, setup the unity editor and setup Azure DevOps builds to use the caching server.

Here is a Unity Unite talk on the Unity Accelerator caching server.

Requirements

• Azure DevOps Account
• Unity Editor Installed
• Admin Access to Device

Steps

1. Install Unity Accelerator from Unity Accelerator page in the Unity manual.
2. Setup Editor:
   • Open the Unity Editor.
   • Click the “Edit” tab.
   • Click “Preferences”.
   • Click “Asset Pipeline” in list.
   • Click “Default Mode” dropdown box and change to “Enable”.
   • Fill in your IP address (192.168.X.X).
   • Click “Check Connection” button to validate settings.

Unity Argument in Azure DevOps Build -> “Command Line arguments”

-EnableCacheServer -cacheServerEndpoint [IP:Port]