Enable configuration cache

[wzieba]

Closes: #

Description

This PR enables configuration cache to speed up execution of local tasks.

In addition it removes unused/updates Gradle tasks and addresses a minor deprecation.

Testing information

Run any task and see the terminal output for more information about storing and reusing configuation cache

The tests that have been performed

Above and I additionally browsed configuration in search for tasks that would be not configuration cache compatible. After recent clean ups, we only have a few of them and they seem to work fine.

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• I have considered if this change warrants release notes and have added them to RELEASE-NOTES.txt if necessary. Use the "[Internal]" label for non-user-facing changes.

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[ParaskP7]

👋 @wzieba !

I have reviewed and tested this PR as per the instructions, everything works as expected, good job! 🌟

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I have just left a couple of questions (❓) for us to discuss. I am going to approve this PR anyway, since none is blocking. I am NOT going to merge this PR yet to give you some time to apply any of my suggestions. However, feel free to ignore them and merge the PR yourself.