Book Image

Mastering Gradle

Book Image

Mastering Gradle

Overview of this book

Related Content you might be interested in

Current Title:

Small book image
Mastering Gradle
Jul, 2015 | 284 pages
No titles found
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Gradle
Mastering Gradle
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with Gradle
Getting Started with Gradle
Understanding Build Automation System
Gradle overview
Installation and quick start
Our first script
Gradle command Line arguments
The Gradle GUI
Start up script
Build life cycle
Cache management
Gradle with IDE
Summary
2
Groovy Essentials for Gradle
Groovy Essentials for Gradle
Overview
Groovy script for Hello World
Data types
Classes, beans, and methods
Control structures
Collections
Closure
Builder
Summary
3
Managing Task
Managing Task
Build script basics
Task configuration
Task execution
Task dependency
Task ordering
Task operations
Gradle's in-built tasks
Custom tasks
Summary
4
Plugin Management
Plugin Management
The script plugin
The binary plugin
Gradle's in-built plugins
The Java plugin
The custom plugin
Summary
5
Dependency Management
Dependency Management
Overview
Dependency configurations
Dependency resolution
Customizing the dependency
Publishing artifacts
Summary
6
Working with Gradle
Working with Gradle
The War plugin
The Scala plugin
Logging
File management
Property management
Multi-project build
Testing with Gradle
Summary
7
Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration
Jenkins walk-through
Checkstyle and PMD plugins
The Sonar Runner plugin
TeamCity walk-through
Summary
8
Migration
Migration
Migration from Ant
Migration from Maven
Summary
9
Deployment
Deployment
Role of Gradle in deployment
Docker overview
Installing Docker
Docker commands
Running an application in Docker
Build, Deployment, and Test pipeline
Summary
10
Building Android Applications with Gradle
Building Android Applications with Gradle
Creating Android project using Android Studio
Building the Android project with Gradle
Summary
Index
Index

Jenkins walk-through

Jenkins is one of the most popular open source continuous integration tools which helps to automate software build and the deployment process. It can work with build tools such as Maven, Gradle, and Ant. It supports various source code management systems such as CVS, Git, Subversion, and Perforce. Even simple shell or batch script execution is supported. The main advantage of Jenkins lies in its plugin support. There are more than 1000+ plugins for different functionalities, and if needed, it can be extended to support new requirements.

Some of the main features of Jenkins are:

  • Easy to install and configure. Simple web-based UI for managing the server

  • Support for a variety of plugins for different builds and deployment related tasks

  • A very large community forum

  • Support for different repositories like SVN, Git, CVS, and Perforce etc.

  • Support for post build hook

Jenkins installation

Jenkins installation is just a two-step process. You need to download jenkins.war from http:/...

Previous Section
End of Section 2
Next Section