Understanding Bazel

Gain context around Bazel design decisions, learn vital concepts, and understand Bazel releases and versioning.

Discover a short history of how artifact-based build systems evolved to enable scale, speed, and hermeticity.

Learn foundational concepts including source code layout, BUILD file syntax, and the types of rules and dependencies.

See Bazel's Long Term Support including release notes, policies, timelines, announcements, and testing.

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Last updated 2024-03-21 UTC.