diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 94336ceb9a2..332c899e1ad 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1354,7 +1354,8 @@
             <modules>
                 <!-- clients -->
                 <!-- test java-related projects -->
-                <module>samples/client/petstore/groovy</module>
+                <!-- comment out below due to gradle no longer installed in circleci
+                <module>samples/client/petstore/groovy</module> -->
                 <module>samples/client/petstore/scala-akka</module>
                 <module>samples/client/petstore/scala-sttp</module>
                 <module>samples/client/petstore/scala-httpclient</module>