Manually invalidate image cache in CI

Our objective is to ensure that the build always uses the latest
Dockerfile for a given build, while minimizing rebuilds.

A counter is explicit and can be used to intentionally invalidate
the image cache, even if the the file's content did not change.

The caching performed by `podman build` is not very clever -
it's not shared between repositories, and is easily invalidated
by successive builds with different versions of the Dockerfile.

Garbage collection is not trivial, since there may be multiple
in-flight revisions with different counters.

Ref T506

Fixes T616

Test Plan: CI ;)

Bug: T616, T506

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  3. scripts/
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  6. .bazelrc
  7. BUILD
  8. nogo_config.json
  9. README.md
  10. WORKSPACE
README.md

Nexantic monorepo

This is the monorepo storing all of nexantic's internal projects and libraries.

Environment

We assume a Fedora host system provisioned using rW, and IntelliJ as the IDE.

For better reproducibility, all builds are executed in containers.

Usage

Spinning up: scripts/create_container.sh

Spinning down: scripts/destroy_container.sh

Running commands: scripts/run_in_container.sh <...>

Using bazel using a wrapper script: scripts/bin/bazel <...> (add to your local $PATH for convenience)

IntelliJ

This repository is compatible with the IntelliJ Bazel plugin. All commands run inside the container, and necessary paths are mapped into the container.

We check the entire .ijwb project directory into the repository, which requires everyone to use the latest version of both IntelliJ and the Bazel plugin, but eliminates manual setup steps.

The following steps are necessary:

  • Install Google's official Bazel plugin in IntelliJ.

  • Add the absolute path to your ~/.cache/bazel-nxt folder to your idea64.vmoptions (Help → Edit Custom VM Options) and restart IntelliJ:

    -Dbazel.bep.path=/home/leopold/.cache/bazel-nxt

  • Set "Bazel Binary Location" in Other Settings → Bazel Settings to the absolute path of scripts/bin/bazel. This is a wrapper that will execute Bazel inside the container.

  • Open the .ijwb folder as IntelliJ project.

  • Disable Vgo support for the project.

  • Run a non-incremental sync in IntelliJ

The plugin will automatically resolve paths for generated files.

If you do not use IntelliJ, you need to use the scripts/bazel_copy_generated_for_ide.sh script to copy files locally.