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
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
- By default the
go_test
command doesn't allow tests to use data. So we need to usedata = 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.