Gradle Enterprise Conventions

Conventions for Gradle projects that use the Gradle Enterprise instance hosted at ge.spring.io.

Build cache conventions

When applied, the conventions will configure the build cache to:

• Enable local caching.
• Use https://ge.spring.io as the remote cache server.
• Enable pulling from the remote cache.
• Enable pushing to the remote cache when a CI environment is detected and the required access token is available.

Remote cache

URL

By default, https://ge.spring.io will be used as the remote cache server. The server can be configured using the DEVELOCITY_CACHE_SERVER environment variable. For backwards compatibility, GRADLE_ENTERPRISE_CACHE_URL is also supported for a limited time. /cache/ is removed from the end of the URL and the remainder is used to configure the remote cache server.

Build scan conventions

When applied alongside the Develocity Plugin, the plugin will configure publishing of build scans to ge.spring.io when authenticated. The build scans will be customized to:

• Add tags:
  • JDK-<version>, where <version> is the value of the toolchainVersion project property or, when not set, the specification version of the JDK running the build.
  • CI or Local depending on where the build is executing.
  • dirty if the git working copy is dirty.
  • Name of the git branch being built.
• Add custom key-value pairs:
  • Git branch with a value of the name of the git branch being built.
  • Git commit with a value of the commit ID HEAD
  • Git status when the working copy is dirty. The value is the output of git status --porcelain.
• Add links:
  • CI build when building on Bamboo, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins, linking to the build on the CI server.
  • Git commit build scans, linking to scans for other builds of the same git commit.
• Enable capturing of file fingerprints
• Upload build scans in the foreground when running on CI

Git branch names

git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD is used to determine the name of the current branch. This does not work on Concourse as its git resource places the repository in a detached head state. To work around this, an environment variable named BRANCH can be set on the task to provide the name of the branch.

Anonymous publication

When using Gradle, build scans can be published anonymously to scans.gradle.com by running the build with --scan.

Authentication

🚨 Credentials must not be configured in environments where pull requests are built. 🚨

Publishing build scans and pushing to the remote cache requires authentication via an access key. Additionally, pushing to the remote cache also requires that a CI environment be detected. When running on CI, the access key should be made available via the DEVELOCITY_ACCESS_KEY environment variable. GRADLE_ENTERPRISE_ACCESS_KEY can also be used although it will result in a deprecation warning from Gradle.

Bamboo

The environment variable should be set to ${bamboo.gradle_enterprise_secret_access_key}.

Concourse

The environment variable should be set using ((gradle_enterprise_secret_access_key)) from Vault.

GitHub Actions

The environment variable should be set using the GRADLE_ENTERPRISE_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY organization secret.

Jenkins

The environment variable should be set using the gradle_enterprise_secret_access_key secret text credential.

Local

An access key can be provisioned by running ./gradlew provisionDevelocityAccessKey once the project has been configured to use this plugin.

Detecting CI

Bamboo is detected by looking for an environment variable named bamboo_resultsUrl.

Concourse does not automatically set any environment variables in the build's container that allow its use to be detected. To work around this, an environment variable named CI can be set on the task.

Jenkins is detected by looking for an environment variable named JENKINS_URL.

Using the conventions

Releases of the conventions are published to Maven Central. Snapshots are published to https://repo.spring.io/snapshot.

The first step in using the conventions is to make the necessary repository available for plugin resolution. This is done by configuring a plugin management repository in settings.gradle, as shown in the following example:

pluginManagement {
	repositories {
		gradlePluginPortal()
		mavenCentral()
	}
}

In the example above, gradlePluginPortal() is declared to allow other plugins to continue to be resolved from the portal.

Now apply the plugin in settings.gradle, alongside the com.gradle.develocity plugin:

plugins {
	// …
	id "com.gradle.develocity" version "<<version>>"
	id "io.spring.ge.conventions" version "<<version>>"
	// …
}