diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 16985b75dd..3a5cc36900 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -31,8 +31,11 @@ jdk:
 # Caches mvn repository in order to speed upbuilds
 cache:
   directories:
-  - $HOME/.m2
-  - $HOME/.npm
+    - $HOME/.m2
+    - $HOME/.npm
+before_cache:
+  # Remove nifi repo again to save travis from caching it
+  - rm -rf $HOME/.m2/repository/org/apache/nifi/
 
 # before_install aids in a couple workarounds for issues within the Travis-CI environment
 #   1. Workaround for buffer overflow issues with OpenJDK versions of java as per https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5227#issuecomment-165135711
@@ -43,6 +46,8 @@ before_install:
   - sed -i.bak -e 's|https://nexus.codehaus.org/snapshots/|https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/codehaus-snapshots/|g' ~/.m2/settings.xml
   - echo "MAVEN_OPTS='-Xmx2g -XX:+UseG1GC'" > ~/.mavenrc
   - cat ~/.mavenrc
+  # Remove nifi repo again to save travis from caching it
+  - rm -rf $HOME/.m2/repository/org/apache/nifi/
   - mvn -q apache-rat:check
 
 install: