

The active GitHub community publish helpful actions to a marketplace for you to include in your build workflow. And since Gradle is a Groovy/Kotlin based build tool, it can do whatever you need, including building, testing, and publishing your application. While GitHub Actions is great (did I mention that already?), let’s not forget that a lot of the magic happens within the Gradle build process itself. 🐘 leverage the full power of Gradle within GitHub As you’ll see in the step-by-step example later, running Gradle is a breeze and it even has caching for fast performance. If you thought there’d be lots of setup to get GitHub Actions building Gradle, think again! Everything’s been considered, including installing the required Java version on the GitHub Actions runner (where your project gets built). And of course GitHub Actions works here too. This allows teams of any size to securely develop applications. While GitHub is hugely popular with open source projects like Spring Boot & Kubernetes, you can also setup private repositories and organizations. For public repositories you get unlimited minutes of build time, while within private repositories you get 2,000 free minutes per month. Yes, I already mentioned this but it’s worth repeating. push, create pull request), check out your code without worrying about authentication, and show build results all within a single unified GitHub UI. If you already store source code in GitHub, then GitHub Actions seamlessly integrates with it to react to repository events (e.g. 🤝 tight integration between version control management (VCM) & CI systems If you haven’t tried it yet, here are the main advantages of using it to build Gradle projects. GitHub Actions was recently released in November 2019, offering a continuous integration (CI) solution to take on the big boys like Jenkins and GitLab. In this article you’ll learn how to easily build Gradle projects with GitHub Actions, optimise build performance, and use the event driven approach to handle common scenarios like PR creation. While other CI solutions involve the headache of managing servers, GitHub Actions is entirely hosted on their infrastructure. If you have a Gradle project in GitHub, then GitHub Actions can build it automatically on push with minimal setup.
