Introduction

NativeLink is a high-performance remote build cache and execution platform for build systems that speak the Remote Execution API — Bazel, Buck2, Siso, Pants, Goma, and CMake via recc. It's open source, written in Rust, and battle-tested on over a billion build requests a month.

This site is the source of truth for setting NativeLink up, configuring it, deploying it, and contributing to it. Content is currently being filled in — section landings are accurate, page bodies are coming.

Pick a starting point

The docs are organised along the Diátaxis framework — tutorials, how-to guides, explanations, and reference are kept apart so each serves its job well.

I want to get something running

• Setup — install and run a local cluster in under 10 minutes.
• NativeLink on-prem — a single-server deployment that survives a team-wide rollout.
• Other build systems — using NativeLink without Bazel (Buck2, Siso, Pants, CMake).

I want to configure or operate it

• Configuration introduction — the JSON5 schema in one page.
• Basic configurations — common shapes for single-node and small-cluster setups.
• Production configurations — multi-region CAS, autoscaling workers, observability.
• Deployment examples — Kubernetes, Chromium, metrics pipelines, persistent workers.

I want to understand how it works

• Architecture — scheduler, CAS, action cache, workers — what each piece does.
• Local Remote Execution — hermetic builds without Docker.
• History — why NativeLink exists and what came before.

I want to contribute

• Contribution guidelines — what we accept, what we don't, and how reviews work.
• Develop with Bazel, Cargo, or Nix.

I need a reference

• Configuration reference — every configurable knob, autogenerated from the source.
• Glossary
• Changelog

FAQ

Every page on this site ends with an FAQ covering the questions we get most about that topic. The ones we get most overall: