diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/wpi/first/gradlerio/deploy/DeployData.java b/src/main/java/edu/wpi/first/gradlerio/deploy/DeployData.java
index 191472f1..34a20872 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/wpi/first/gradlerio/deploy/DeployData.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/wpi/first/gradlerio/deploy/DeployData.java
@@ -2,9 +2,17 @@
 
 import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
 import com.google.gson.Gson;
+
 import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.gradle.api.GradleException;
+
 import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
 
 class DeployLogFile {
     public String deployHost;
@@ -14,7 +22,7 @@ class DeployLogFile {
     public String gitHash;
     public String gitBranch;
     public String gitDesc;
-    public static final String LOG_FILE_PATH = "/home/lvuser/deploy.json";
+    public static final Path LOG_FILE_PATH = Paths.get("/home/lvuser/deploy.json");
     public String[] deployItems = {
         "deployHost",
         "deployUser",
@@ -28,7 +36,6 @@ class DeployLogFile {
     Gson builder = new GsonBuilder().create();
     Map<String, String> data = new HashMap<String, String>();
     String jsonDeploy;
-    File deployDotJson;
 
     DeployLogFile() {
         data.put(deployItems[0], deployHost);
@@ -41,6 +48,10 @@ class DeployLogFile {
 
         jsonDeploy = builder.toJson(data);
 
-        deployDotJson = new File(LOG_FILE_PATH);
+        try {
+            Files.writeString(LOG_FILE_PATH, jsonDeploy, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+        } catch(IOException e) {
+            throw new GradleException("Could not write deploy log file");
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/wpi/first/gradlerio/deploy/FRCDeployPlugin.java b/src/main/java/edu/wpi/first/gradlerio/deploy/FRCDeployPlugin.java
index 85d7367d..47064e1e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/wpi/first/gradlerio/deploy/FRCDeployPlugin.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/wpi/first/gradlerio/deploy/FRCDeployPlugin.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import edu.wpi.first.gradlerio.deploy.roborio.RoboRIO;
 import edu.wpi.first.gradlerio.deploy.roborio.RobotCommandArtifact;
 import edu.wpi.first.deployutils.deploy.NamedObjectFactory;
+import edu.wpi.first.gradlerio.deploy.DeployLogFile;
 
 public class FRCDeployPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
 
@@ -59,6 +60,8 @@ public void apply(Project project) {
             configureRoboRIOTypes(target);
             return target;
         });
+
+        new DeployLogFile();
     }
 
     public Project getProject() {