Bazel Training Course

Introduction

• Overview of Bazel
• Understanding the Bazel architecture

Getting Started

• Installing the Bazel runtime and launcher
• Understanding the Bazel UI

Understanding the Project Structure and Basic Building Blocks

• Project building block
• Project structure
• Concepts of a build logic

Invoking a Target From the Command Line

• Executing a target
• Commonly-used commands
• Output and cache directories

Understanding the Bazel Build Lifecycle

• Phases of the Bazel lifecycle
• Configuration file
• Programming language rules

Using Bazel Basic Automation For Java

• Setting up a Java project
• Building a Java project
• Running the build from the command line
• Inspecting the generated artifact
• Deploying the Java project
• Driving Bazel from the IDE
• Using Bazel in IntelliJ

Bazel Dependency Management

• Modeling fine-grained package granularity and dependencies
• Declaring external dependencies
• Declaring an external library and using it in a code
• Declaring the JUnit dependency
• Publishing a JAR to a Maven repository
• Publishing a Java library to local Maven

Testing Automation

• Performing automated tests
• Executing JUnit tests

Advanced Bazel

• Extension concepts
• Writing and executing a genrule
• Remote caching and execution
• Build stamping
• Bazel query
• Java toolchains

Troubleshooting

Summary and Next Steps