Gradle Posts

It’s probably fair to say that Gradle has somewhat of a steep learning curve. Certainly compared to Maven, another popular build automation tool, it’s move flexible and less opinionated about how things should work. Whether you’ve just made the jump into Gradle, or have been using it for a while, in this article you’ll discover seven things you wish you’d known about Gradle. With these pointers, you’ll be well on your way to writing more powerful, more concise build scripts for your application, following best practice all the way....

1. Introduction We’re all using Docker containers these days to do all sorts of great stuff, but it’s not always obvious how best to automate the building of images and embed good repeatable processes into our projects. In this article you’ll discover one of the best approaches I’ve found to automate Docker in your project. It’s to create tasks for the building of images and running of containers within your Gradle project....