Dagger Alternatives

dagger reviews and mentions

• Share your DevOps setups
  6 projects | /r/selfhosted | 7 Dec 2023

  That said I've been moving my CI/CD to https://dagger.io/ which has been FANTASTIC. It's code based so you can define all your pipelines in Go, Python, or Javascript and they all run on containers so I can run actions locally without any special setup. Highly recommended.

• What’s with DevOps engineers using `make` of all things?
  17 projects | /r/devops | 6 Dec 2023

  You are right make is arcane. But it gets the job done. There are new exciting things happening in this area. Check out https://dagger.io.

• Shellcheck finds bugs in your shell scripts
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Nov 2023

  > but I'm not convinced it's ready to replace Gitlab CI.

  The purpose of Dagger it's not to replace your entire CI (Gitlab in your case). As you can see from our website (https://dagger.io/engine), it works and integrates with all the current CI providers. Where Dagger really shines is to help you and your teams move all the artisanal scripts encoded in YAML into actual code and run them in containers through a fluent SDK which can be written in your language of choice. This unlocks a lot of benefits which are detailed in our docs (https://docs.dagger.io/).

  > Dagger has one very big downside IMO: It does not have native integration with Gitlab, so you end up having to use Docker-in-Docker and just running dagger as a job in your pipeline.

  This is not correct. Dagger doesn't depend on Docker. We're just conveniently using Docker (and other container runtimes) as it's generally available pretty much everywhere by default as a way to bootstrap the Dagger Engine. You can read more about the Dagger architecture here: https://github.com/dagger/dagger/blob/main/core/docs/d7yxc-o...

  As you can see from our docs (https://docs.dagger.io/759201/gitlab-google-cloud/#step-5-cr...), we're leveraging the *default* Gitlab CI `docker` service to bootstrap the engine. There's no `docker-in-docker` happening there.

  > It clumps all your previously separated steps into a single step in the Gitlab pipeline.

  This is also not the case, we should definitely improve our docs to reflect that. You can organize your dagger pipelines in multiple functions and call them in separate Gitlab jobs as you're currently doing. For example, you can do the following:

  ```.gitlab-ci.yml

• Cicada – A FOSS, Cross-Platform Version of GitHub Actions and Gitlab CI
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Nov 2023

  Check out https://dagger.io/. Write declarative pipelines in code, reproducibly run anywhere.

• Show HN: Togomak – declarative pipeline orchestrator based on HCL and Terraform
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Oct 2023

  Is this similar to Dagger[1] ?

  [1] https://dagger.io

  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Oct 2023

  One primary design goal togomak had from the beginning was concurrency. All tasks run concurrently, unless a `depends_on` argument is mentioned. `just` didn't support that when I was initially building togomak, but there is a feature coming in soon which I am looking forward to: https://github.com/casey/just/pull/1562 .

  While I was building togomak, I read through Dagger [1], Earthly [2], Concourse CI [3], Jest and Make along with the stuff I was already working with - Jenkins, GitHub actions and GitLab CI. Dagger [1] is really great, I like its design - it supports writing pipelines in Python, Typescript, Go and a few more languages. togomak tries to abstract away a lot of it. Such as dependency management (in the case of python, the requirement of a python interpreter, and its package managers, etc). togomak is just a single statically-linked binary.

  [1]: https://dagger.io/

• Ask HN: How does your CI/CD stack look like today?
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2023

  Another https://dagger.io fan here. Have been using it since late 2021 to continuously deploy a Phoenix app to Fly.io: https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/pull/395. Every commit goes into production.

  This is what the GHA workflow currently looks like: https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/blob/c7b8a57b2...

  FWIW, you can see how everything fits together in this architecture diagram: https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/blob/master/IN...

  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2023

  Github actions with https://dagger.io is simply awesome!

• Bld v0.2
  2 projects | /r/rust | 9 Jul 2023

  These are also problems that dagger https://dagger.io/ addresses, so if you are interested in these tools I encourage you to have a look.

• Show HN: Digger – an Open Source Terraform automation and collaboration tool
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jul 2023

  I misread it as Dagger, the CI/CD tool (https://dagger.io)

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