Role of Gradle in deployment
Gradle plays one of the major roles in the build and deployment process. Developer can use a combination of different tools based on the requirement to automate the complete build and deployment process. Tools such as Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, and Docker help to create the build and deployment infrastructure. But for very simple deployments, some of the Gradle features can be useful. Gradle provides a variety of tasks that can automate some of deployment tasks as mentioned previously. Few useful tasks are as follows:
Download task to downloading the artifacts (ZIP, WAR, EAR, and so on) and its dependencies.
You can download artifacts by just adding the list in the dependencies closure. In a similar fashion, you can download all the other dependencies needed to run the software. It is not needed to bundle the software with all the dependencies and make it heavy. It is good to download dependencies at the time of the installing the software to make it lightweight.
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