How to package and deploy the output of a bazel build action

0:00 Intro
2:55 Setup and Compile python
8:11 Packaging to a zip file
12:36 Find the artifact path
14:57 Writing a deployment script

#bazel

In this tutorial I talk about how you can access the artifacts that are built using the bazel build system.

Bazel is really good at a taking inputs, doing some action on them and the returning the outputs for other build steps. But how do you take those outputs and copy them to a location of on your own computer. Or copy them into the actual workspace

This video sets up a step-by-step guide on how to compile a simple binary, with the python rules. zip them using package rules and then uses a simple script to copy the result to into the workspace

Here are the links to the pages that are mentioned in the project

[plobsing]

FYI, audio is stereo, but right channel is silent.

[elisiuslegodi]

Hi Gisli, Do you perhaps know how to access the bazel's metadata that keeps track of the changes and which tests to run? Does Bazel make the logic available to end users?

[umapatil]

Hi Gisli.. Thank you for videos on Bazel. I have just started working on bazel and am stuck with an issue. I wanted a rule to invoke a py_binary and pass 2 arguments to python program through that rule. Also my python program doesn't output any file it just connectes to microcontroller board and deploys the executable(.hex file) to it. Later I want to use bazel run command that uses the .hex file genearted from cc_binary as input to the genrule that deploys .hex to microcontroller board using the custom rule created that invoke py_binary. If you could guide me on this it would really be of great help.