The Gradle team uses ADRs to record architectural decisions that the team has made.

See [Architecture decisions records](standards) for the list of ADRs.
Be aware these are very technical descriptions of the decisions, and you might find the documentation below more useful as an introduction to the internals of Gradle.

## Platform architecture

Gradle is arranged into several coarse-grained components called "platforms".

- In ambient mode, the CNI plugin does not configure any networking, but is only responsible for synchronously pushing new pod events back up to an ambient watch server which runs as part of the Istio CNI node agent. The ambient server will find the pod netns and configure networking inside that pod via iptables. The ambient server will additionally watch enabled namespaces, and enroll already-started-but-newly-enrolled pods in a similar fashion.

## Privileges required

While not required, it is recommended all new users use this chart, and existing users migrate when possible.

This chart has the following benefits and differences:
* Designed with Helm best practices in mind (standardized values options, values schema, values are not all nested under `gateways.istio-ingressgateway.*`, release name and namespace taken into account, etc).

Guava comes in two flavors:

*   The JRE flavor requires JDK 1.8 or higher.
*   If you need support for Android, use
    [the Android flavor](https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/Android). You can
    find the Android Guava source in the [`android` directory].

[`android` directory]: https://github.com/google/guava/tree/master/android

## Adding Guava to your build

  - If there are any errors, read the error and fix your code.
  - IMPORTANT NOTE: if the first import fails, you have to select and apply `Synchronization disabled`, then repeat the step above.
    Otherwise, TeamCity complains "Can't find the previous revision, please commit current settings first".
  - If anything bad happens, feel free to delete the project you created and retry (you may need to apply `Synchronization disabled` before deleting it).  
    

* Join our [Slack Channel](https://gradle.com/slack-invite)


## Contributing

If you're looking to contribute to Gradle or provide a patch/pull request, you can find more info [here](https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).