--- title: "You Are Probably Already Running gradle/actions" url: https://daily.dev/posts/you-are-probably-already-running-gradle-actions-zt0kzwkho source_url: https://blog.gradle.org/running-gradle-github-actions type: article source: "Gradle Blog" published: 2026-06-30T21:21:53.903Z updated: 2026-07-05T06:21:10.034Z tags: ["java", "cicd", "github-actions", "gradle"] reading_time: 9 upvotes: 2 comments: 0 language: 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. # You Are Probably Already Running gradle/actions **[Gradle Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/gradle-blog)** · 9 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary gradle/actions is a collection of GitHub Actions published by Gradle, most notably setup-gradle, used by over 45,000 open source repositories and baked into GitHub's official Gradle starter workflow. The action solves the non-trivial problem of correctly caching Gradle's User Home directory in ephemeral CI runners, handling dependency caching, wrapper validation (to detect tampered Gradle Wrappers), and dependency graph submission for Dependabot. It also surfaces Build Scan links directly in the GitHub UI. Major JVM projects like Spring Boot, Micronaut, Ktor, OkHttp, Retrofit, JUnit 5, Mockito, and OpenTelemetry's Java SDK all use it. The minimal setup is a single line of YAML that enables caching, wrapper validation, and Build Scan integration out of the box. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [GitHub Actions for Gradle v6: What's Changing and Why](https://daily.dev/posts/github-actions-for-gradle-v6-what-s-changing-and-why-gbtwyw2rh) · Gradle Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Choice, Clarity, and the Future of Caching in Gradle Actions](https://daily.dev/posts/choice-clarity-and-the-future-of-caching-in-gradle-actions-apqmfn09h) · Gradle Blog · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#java](https://daily.dev/tags/java), [#cicd](https://daily.dev/tags/cicd), [#github-actions](https://daily.dev/tags/github-actions), [#gradle](https://daily.dev/tags/gradle) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/you-are-probably-already-running-gradle-actions-zt0kzwkho)