--- title: Essential Tips for Gradle on Ephemeral CI Environments -... description: Part 3 of a series on optimizing Gradle builds in ephemeral CI environments focuses on the Execution phase and the Gradle Build Cache. It explains how the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/essential-tips-for-gradle-on-ephemeral-ci-environments---part-3-xiakaebnz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Essential Tips for Gradle on Ephemeral CI Environments - Part 3 | daily.dev og:description: Part 3 of a series on optimizing Gradle builds in ephemeral CI environments focuses on the Execution phase and the Gradle Build Cache. It explains how the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/essential-tips-for-gradle-on-ephemeral-ci-environments---part-3-xiakaebnz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XiAKaeBNZ.png og:image:alt: Essential Tips for Gradle on Ephemeral CI Environments - Part 3 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Essential Tips for Gradle on Ephemeral CI Environments - Part 3 **[Gradle Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/gradle-blog)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Part 3 of a series on optimizing Gradle builds in ephemeral CI environments focuses on the Execution phase and the Gradle Build Cache. It explains how the build cache stores task outputs (compiled classes, artifacts) keyed by inputs, enabling reuse across builds. Benchmarks on a Spring Boot project show restoring the local build cache saves ~11% build time. The post also covers remote build caches (self-hosted via Gradle Build Cache Node), artifact transforms cache, and JDK toolchain provisioning cache. It concludes the trilogy with a summary table of all optimizations across Startup, Configuration, and Execution phases, and recommends managed solutions like the setup-gradle GitHub Action or Develocity Universal Cache to avoid manual cache maintenance. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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