BuildBuddy on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Azure Developer Tools

the open source bazel build acceleration platform: a remote cache, a build results store and a dashboard, secured from first boot by cloudimg.

Base
Hardened build
minimal ports, security patches applied at build time
Access
Unique credentials
generated on first boot, readable only by root
Verified
Boots working
services pass a health gate before release
Support
24/7, 365 days
by email and live chat, 24 hour response SLA

Overview

BuildBuddy makes Bazel builds faster and easier to debug. It combines a remote content addressable cache, a Build Event Protocol results store and a web dashboard, so teams stop rebuilding what has already been built and get a shareable, drillable view of every invocation. Point Bazel at the appliance and action results are cached centrally: the first machine to build a target populates the cache and everyone else, including CI, downloads the result instead of recompiling, while each invocation streams to the dashboard for inspection of targets, timing and cache statistics.

Why the cloudimg image

cloudimg ships a genuinely open source, MIT licensed build, the enterprise only code is deliberately not bundled. It is secure by default: the dashboard is fronted by a reverse proxy with a unique administrator password generated on the first boot of every instance, with no default login surviving into the image, and it is self contained on an embedded database plus a local disk cache with nothing else to deploy. A bundled self test confirms the remote cache accelerates a real build straight from the box. Every deployment is paired with a step by step guide and backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.

Common uses

  • Faster Bazel builds via a shared remote cache
  • A central results store and dashboard for CI
  • Drillable inspection of build and test invocations

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.

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