# Bazel builds ## Overview Building with bazel offers a deterministic, faster build, including creating smaller docker images. While bazel works well for small projects, building with kubernetes still has a few challenges. We take the following approach: * We don't yet generate files in bazel - we use external scripts (for now) * We vendor our dependencies, rather than relying on gazelle (although actually gazelle works, the issue is when external dependencies like apimachinery include bazel files that confuse gazelle) * We strip bazel files from external dependencies, so we don't confuse gazelle ## How to run Build: `bazel build //cmd/... //pkg/... //channels/... //nodeup/... //channels/... //protokube/... //dns-controller/...` Test: `bazel test //cmd/... //pkg/... //channels/... //nodeup/... //channels/... //protokube/... //dns-controller/...` Regenerate bazel files using gazelle: `bazel run //:gazelle` ## Other changes needed * By default the `go_test` command doesn't allow tests to use data. So we need to use `data = glob(["testdata/**"]),` or similar. We add `# keep` to stop gazelle from removing it. `data` doesn't make it easy to access files in a parent directory, so we'll have to clean up some of the test / package structure.