NetKernel Gradle plugin is the official tool for build configuration management and deployment for NetKernel based projects. The plugin is supported by the 1060 Research which are the creators of NetKernel so its future development and maintenance are assured.

This blog post is the first part of our NetKernel Gradle plugin tutorial. It is an inventory of articles written somewhere else, mostly in NetKernel newsletters. This article has few goals:

1. getting started with the Gradle build tool
2. a bit of history of the NetKernel Gradle plugin
3. describe the basic concepts of the plugin which will help us understand the future parts of this tutorial