Running bazel server in docker container

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I would like to spin up a docker container that runs a long-running bazel server with the purpose of being able to send bazel build commands to it (similar to a remote build server) from my machine or another container. What is the best / recommended way to do this?

I saw the bazel docker sandbox doc page but it looks like it hasn't been updated in a while -- even the bazel-toolchains repo it links to doesn't have a sample .bazelrc past 4.1.0. Is this still recommended?

I also tried playing around with the bazel docker container but it looks like it's set up to be both client and server and not just run a server and listen for commands.

Any guidance would be appreciated, thanks!