Bazel Buildfarm

Overview

Bazel Buildfarm is an open source remote build cache and remote execution service that implements Bazel's Remote Execution API. When your Bazel builds point at a farm, the results of build actions are cached centrally and the actions themselves can be executed on the farm's workers rather than on every developer machine and CI runner. A cache hit skips recompilation entirely, and remote execution moves the heavy compilation off the local machine onto shared, scalable capacity, so a team sharing one farm sees dramatically faster incremental builds and cheaper, more consistent CI.

It suits any team already building with Bazel that wants a shared cache and offloaded execution running inside their own cloud account, rather than depending on a hosted service, and that values owning the infrastructure their build results and source-derived artifacts pass through.

Common uses

• Share one Bazel cache across a team so incremental builds reuse results instead of recompiling
• Offload Bazel compilation onto remote workers to speed up local and CI builds
• Run a remote build cache and execution farm you own inside your own cloud account