Jobs

Three categories of jobs run on https://ci.bazel.build:

  • bootstrap/maintenance jobs (e.g. bazel-bootstrap)
  • projects (e.g. TensorFlow)
  • hidden jobs

Bootstrap and maintenance

Several jobs control the bootstrap and maintenance of Bazel, they are mostly under the maintenance and bazel folders:

  • maintenance/install-bazel: installs Bazel release on all workers

  • maintenance/gerrit-verifier: detects pending reviews on Gerrit that need validation.

    A review needs validation if somebody marks it as Presubmit-Ready.

  • bazel/nightly: handles the Global tests

    This job runs every night.

  • bazel/release: copy of bazel/nightly that runs for the release

    This job also handles publishing the release artifacts.

  • bazel/presubmit: copy of bazel/nightly that is triggered when someone sets Presubmit-Ready+2 on Gerrit

Projects

These jobs simply run Bazel on a GitHub repository.

The job templates and definitions are under //jenkins.

Particularly interesting is //jenkins/jobs/jobs.bzl: it contains the logic that computes which jobs to run on CI.

Hidden jobs

These jobs are copies of the jobs for the corresponding <project>. These jobs all use the latest Bazel release:

  • PR/<project>: validates a GitHub pull request on <project>

  • CR/<project>: validates a Gerrit review request on <project>

  • Global/<project>: runs a global presubmit test for changes on <project>