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_executor=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.