Can't trigger Bazel remote caching

I'm trying set up Bazel remote caching with no success so far. The problem I'm having is that Bazel does not seem to read/write to cache at all.

Steps I took:

• Boot up a VM running Linux

• Install Bazel 6.2.1 using Bazelisk

• Clone this repo https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel

• Run bazel build examples/py_native:bin --disk_cache=~/.cache/bazel_disk, nothing is created inside ~/.cache/bazel_disk
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• Run bazel build examples/shell:bin --remote_cache=https://storage.googleapis.com/dsp-bazel-cache, nothing is created inside the GCS bucket
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I already run bazel clean beforehand.
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I'm trying to understand what happened and where I can check logs to troubleshoot here. Any help is really appreciated. Thank you.

"Building" a simple Python binary does not require much work. Therefore, there isn't anything interesting to cache. Try out something more heavyweight like C++, Java, or running a test.

Also, keep in mind that if the output tree is already up to date from a previous build, Bazel will not have to build anything and therefore not populate the cache. Run bazel clean to remove the output tree.