---
title: "Bazel remote execution with rules_nixpkgs"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/bazel-remote-execution-with-rules-nixpkgs-8cwo5qlre
source_url: https://www.tweag.io/blog/2024-02-29-remote-execution-rules-nixpkgs/
type: article
source: "Lobsters"
published: 2024-03-06T13:04:53.265Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:28:05.588Z
tags: ["bazel"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Bazel remote execution with rules_nixpkgs

**[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

This post discusses the limitations of using rules_nixpkgs with remote execution in Bazel and presents a new remote execution infrastructure to overcome this limitation. It provides steps to achieve remote execution with rules_nixpkgs using Buildbarn and a NFS-based solution.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://www.tweag.io/blog/2024-02-29-remote-execution-rules-nixpkgs/>

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