diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index d88e4c27109..d3f8b0047b4 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ workflow:
   - cargo +nightly --version
   - cargo spellcheck --version
   - bash --version
-  - sccache -s
 
 .test-refs:                        &test-refs
   rules:
@@ -76,11 +75,9 @@ workflow:
   image:                           "${CI_IMAGE}"
   before_script:
     - *rust-info-script
-    - ./scripts/ci/pre_cache.sh
-    - sccache -s
   interruptible:                   true
   tags:
-    - linux-docker
+    - linux-docker-vm-c2
 
 .kubernetes-env:                   &kubernetes-env
   interruptible:                   true
diff --git a/scripts/ci/pre_cache.sh b/scripts/ci/pre_cache.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index c25d73587bf..00000000000
--- a/scripts/ci/pre_cache.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-set -u
-
-# if there is no directory for this $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME/$CI_JOB_NAME
-# create such directory and
-# copy recursively all the files from the newest dir which has $CI_JOB_NAME, if it exists
-
-# cache lives in /ci-cache/${CI_PROJECT_NAME}/${2}/${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME}/${CI_JOB_NAME}
-
-function prepopulate {
-  if [[ ! -d $1 ]]; then
-    mkdir -p "/ci-cache/$CI_PROJECT_NAME/$2/$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME";
-    FRESH_CACHE=$(find "/ci-cache/$CI_PROJECT_NAME/$2" -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 \
-      -type d -name "$CI_JOB_NAME"  -exec stat --printf="%Y\t%n\n" {} \; |sort -n -r |head -1 |cut -f2);
-    if [[ -d $FRESH_CACHE ]]; then
-      echo "____Using" "$FRESH_CACHE" "to prepopulate the cache____";
-      time cp -r "$FRESH_CACHE" "$1";
-    else
-      echo "_____No such $2 dir, proceeding from scratch_____";
-    fi
-  else
-    echo "____No need to prepopulate $2 cache____";
-  fi
-}
-
-# CARGO_HOME cache is still broken so would be handled some other way.
-prepopulate "$CARGO_TARGET_DIR" targets