May 2023: Bazel and Docker with rules_oci (Alex Eagle @ Aspect)

During the Bazel Community Day held in San Francisco on May 23rd 2023, Alex Eagle from Aspect (www.aspect.dev/) held a lightning talk about rules_oci, which are Bazel rules for OCI containers and an "barebones" alternative to rules_docker.
Slides: hackmd.io/@aspect/rules_oci
Alex Eagle, the founder and co-CEO of Aspect and the maintainer of rules_oci and many other rule sets, spoke about building container images with Bazel using rules_oci. At the beginning of the talk, Alex tagged the v1.0.0 release!
rules_docker has been maintained by Google, but it has been difficult for Google engineers and for the community to keep it up to date. It relies on checked-in binaries that aren't open source, and many language-specific rules.
The new rules_oci is smaller and simpler, relying on pkg_tar for building layers and on capable image manipulation tools like Crane.
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The demo gods blessed Alex this day!! 😂