diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 9419f8b98..44cf04abd 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ jobs:
       - run: make ui-lint
       - run: make ui-build-module
       - run: make ui-test
+      - run: make assets-tarball -o assets
+      - store_artifacts:
+          path: web/ui/static.tar.gz
       - save_cache:
           key: v3-npm-deps-{{ checksum "web/ui/package-lock.json" }}
           paths:
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f28a53596..c5b58bf5a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -63,10 +63,15 @@ ui-lint:
 assets: ui-install ui-build
 
 .PHONY: assets-compress
-assets-compress:
+assets-compress: assets
 	@echo '>> compressing assets'
 	scripts/compress_assets.sh
 
+.PHONY: assets-tarball
+assets-tarball: assets-compress
+	@echo '>> packaging assets'
+	scripts/package_assets.sh
+
 .PHONY: test
 # If we only want to only test go code we have to change the test target
 # which is called by all.
diff --git a/scripts/package_assets.sh b/scripts/package_assets.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..f747d8d51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/package_assets.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# compress static assets
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+cd web/ui
+find static -type f -name '*.gz' -print0 | xargs -0 tar cf static.tar.gz