This program implements a remote execution worker that uses gRPC to accept work requests. It can work as a remote execution worker, a cache worker, or both. The simplest setup is as follows:

• First build remote_worker and run it.

    bazel build src/tools/remote_worker:all
    bazel-bin/src/tools/remote_worker/remote_worker --work_path=/tmp/test \
        --listen_port=8080
  

• Then you run Bazel pointing to the remote_worker instance.

    bazel --host_jvm_args=-Dbazel.DigestFunction=SHA1 build \
        --spawn_strategy=remote --remote_cache=localhost:8080 \
        --remote_worker=localhost:8080 src/tools/generate_workspace:all
  

The above command will build generate_workspace with remote spawn strategy that uses the local worker as the distributed caching and execution backend.

You can also use a Hazelcast server for the distributed cache as follows: Suppose your Hazelcast server is listening on address:port. Then, run the remote worker with --hazelcast_node=address:port.