intros

[pallid hearth]

Hi! I am Miranda Carter, Product Manager at Dagger and manage our community experience. I am located in Vancouver, WA. I am excited to learn more about how each of you are using Dagger to solve your own CI/CD pain points!

If you have any feedback or suggestions on how to improve our community experience, please feel free to DM me! We are always open to feedback.

[fallen loom]

Hi, I am Kasper J. Hermansen, Platform Engineer at Lunar. I live in Aarhus, Denmark. I am the maintainer of the Rust SDK, and currently building our own abstraction on dagger inside Lunar, for our own CI as a Product Journey. We're excited for where Dagger is going, and is already giving us some great features. 😄

[stoic hawk]

Hey, I am Jon Levy, platform team lead of Icelands Governmental Digital Services.

We are extremely excited about Dagger and believe that it will do the same for CI/CD as Bruce Willis did for action movies.

Our goal is to complement our large NX monorepo with Dagger pipelines to give our workflows more clarity, typing and increase efficiency.

We also want to focus on DX, by wrapping heavy NX tasks with Dagger, and use Dagger Cloud for distributed cache. There is alot of idling horsepower on all those dev machines that can be used to run most of the pipelines that the CI platform will use as part of the shared cache.

Icelands Governmental Services is open source so feel free to browse/contribute.

https://github.com/island-is/island.is

Exciting times!

[median herald]

Hey, I'm Ali AKCA, a platform engineer in Berlin. At the moment, I am on a break after completing my work at D2IQ.

Currently, I'm involved in an exciting open-source project that leverages Dagger to run GitHub Actions seamlessly.

If you're curious to learn more and provide valuable feedback, I invite you to check out the project I'm working on:

Executor: https://github.com/aweris/ghx.
Orchestrator and API: https://github.com/aweris/gale.

I'm thrilled to be part of this community and can't wait to collaborate with all of you. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or want to discuss anything 🙏

[stable cedar]

Hey there! Consultant here, sometimes XP application development, where good CI is a critical enabler, and sometimes CI/CD/cloud infra stuff, where setting up CI is the whole job. Used Concourse for a long time but recently have mostly been using Github Actions because, well, it's available. I don't love it, though -- lots of problems but the biggest one is that it doesn't have any concept of a resource. You just do IO whenever and wherever you want! Madness.

So, I'm on the lookout for something better. I might end up circling back around and just commit to running Concourse for my own stuff (and for clients too when I can swing it) but there are times when that's just not possible in a client situation, so I've got my eye out for a tool that doesn't require selling clients on "here run this big distributed system just for CI" but that still lets me build pipelines properly. Dagger's pretty interesting from that perspective -- despite my deep affection for YAML. 😅

[rich plank]

Hello, I'm Pádraic. My title is backend engineer, but I'm increasibly focused on platform engineering and ops, based at a startup in Brussels. I came across dagger via the ShipIt podcast, and it's now a key plank in my strategy to streamline operations and keep dev requirements down to just git, docker and python (with Hatch as the runner!)

[sharp mantle]

Hey there, I'm Eugene, mostly focus on distributed systems engineering and infra automation nowadays. Excited about Dagger after years of fighting with Jenkins/Dockerfiles and then watching leadership decide to switch to Github Actions and throw our all our investment in shared Jenkins libraries/pipelines.

Main thing I'm unsure about is how something like Dagger can integrate well with the host CI system, particularly in terms of observability/interactivity. Is there some way to generate Jenkins stages or Github Actions steps (?) from Dagger, to allow users to inspect and interact with them the same way they would in the system's native configuration? This is the main blocker for me to adoption; but looking forward to what you guys come up with!

[slender wave]

How we can see dagger TUI in github action?

[twilit mango]

The typical approach is to use the platform CI first and Dagger second. You don't write one Dagger pipeline and tell the platform which parts are certain stages, you write many Dagger jobs and assign them as usual in your platform

[sharp mantle]

Oh interesting, I sort of expected the former. So something like, I'd write one dagger pipeline each for Build, Test, Deploy, etc? and then locally trigger them with some wrapper if I want to replicate the ci pipelines logic?

[twilit mango]

Let's go to #general @sharp mantle

[pseudo oracle]

Hi, I’m Win, a software engineer at LINE Thailand and the maintainer of Elixir SDK. 🙂

[mystic oriole]

I have Elixir home projects I've been meaning to build out CI/CD for! Thank you so much for your work.

[ebon thicket]

Hey everyone I'm Dogukan, I'm Elixir/Erlang and Go Developer in Turkey, When I heard about the Dagger and gale projects, I wanted to join and see what was going on, exciting both works and I hope I can contribute 🙂

[bright lance]

Hi everyone, I am Shaked, I am working with lots of technologies and lately been interested in Dagger.

[humble flower]

Hi all, I'm John, a Python and Scala/AKKA developer in Boston. I work with a monorepo where it can be crucial the deployment/ops tooling version aligns with the product version. I plan to try using dagger inside of this tooling to build a runtime environment with the same tooling installed inside at a requested version and with any required secrets. The initial use case here is just so developers can quickly shell into an environment that is set up with the correct version of the tooling without having to worry about updating the version on their local machine.

[lime imp]

Hi all, I'm Adrien, a french devops. I'm currently evaluating Dagger and Earthly: they both make a dream come true to get the same on local machine and on CI. But I'm currently getting a hard time having time optimized builds on CI (e.g. Gitlab CI) vs on local machine.

[fallen zealot]

Greetings, Bob here. I like the concept of a programmable CI/CD engine and am hoping Dagger will be the one. It seems so much time is spent getting teams to a point where they can just start development. I'm hoping this will help.

[paper aspen]

Hello all , i'm ando

[balmy jay]

Hello all, I'm Gairik

[tawdry river]

Heyo everyone, just joining to say hi and thanks for using my tool Changie

[near storm]

Thank you for making Changie! We’re happy to advertise our use if that is interesting to you. @mortal sequoia and @slender wave are our resident experts I believe?

[tawdry river]

That would be lovely, always appreciated. Always happy to help as well. Features, suggestions whatever. Not sure you need it but there is a GitHub action if that is helpful.

[mortal sequoia]

We have first mentioned changie.dev in https://dagger.io/blog/how-dagger-releases, last paragraph. I am keen on follow-ing up on that blog post with what has changed since, including our deeper integration. For now, it's only part of our releasing documentation https://github.com/dagger/dagger/blob/main/RELEASING.md, but the goal is to automate all of it, which would imply changie in Dagger.

[tawdry river]

One thing that might help with fully automating releases is with auto mode for batches. You specify per kind of change what semver level your version should bump to and changie does the calculation for you.

[mortal sequoia]

In our case, patch vs minor bump is not a technical decision. Our releases involve the entire team, including product, content & marketing, which may have a bunch of things ready for a minor. In that case, we typically drop the experimental label for a feature that has been already available for a few weeks / months, and do a team-wide effort in promoting it.

[silk meteor]

Hello, all, I'm an Enterprise Cloud Architect in Atlanta, seeking some unification after having helped a number of internal teams with disparate deployment solutions (slightly-different variations on Terraform-via-Github Actions, homegrown Ruby scripts deploying CloudFormation stacks, initial deployments via Terraform but subsequent ones via AWS CLI, some CDK here, some CDKTF there . . . )

[karmic swallow]

Welcome! Plenty of kindred spirits here 🙂

[clear vale]

Hello, backend engineer interested in graphs.. everything is a graph:) here because of DAG and graphQL

[near storm]

Welcome!

[placid tartan]

Hello all,

My name is Mazlum, I am Head of Cloud at GroupBees, a freelancers group in France.
I am passionate about Tech, Cloud, Dev, Devops....

I also have a side project (Work In Progress) based on Google Cloud, BigQuery and Dagger.

How can I present you my project ?

I had previously a little exchange with @near storm on Twitter about this and he advised me to show the project to the community even if is in "work in progress".

I go to the vacation tomorrow and I will be back the monday 21 august.

[green sentinel]

Hola 👋
I’m Pedro, a Berlin-based software developer. I used to work at Shopify as a senior staff developer until they decided to get rid of most of their workforce in Germany. It was then when I went back to work on https://tuist.io, a project that I created and maintained for a long time, and started working on a new project with my partner, https://glossia.ai, to improve the experience of localizing software projects.

I know about Dagger but after listening to @near storm on the Changelog podcast I felt very inspired to give tool a try in my projects. For a long time the duplication across environment pipelines bugged me and it’s great to see that Dagger is taking the lead in solving that. I also think the proposal on how to solve it is the most sensible one, specially the language-specific SDKs

[near storm]

Welcome and good to see you here 🙂 Let us know how your Dagger experiments go!

[near storm]

Hi Mazlum! Glad to see you here 🙂 I’m sure @pallid hearth will be delighted to tell you more about our bi-weekly community meetup, she’s the one who runs it. I look forward to seeing a demo!

[placid tartan]

Thanks @near storm 😇

[median herald]

Hola 👋

[chilly bluff]

Hi! I'm an ~old~ seasoned software engineer who appreciated CI/CD to create a faster feedback loop for writing effective and stable software. Concourse CI (incepted by @eager sky) was the first CI/CD system where things clicked and made sense, and it was the CI/CD I didn't know I needed. I see all the extraordinary work being done here and am excited to see where it leads.

#nomoreYAML

[viscid fog]

Hello! I’m Josh from Kansas, United States. I’ve been a software engineer for over 10 years now and during that time have interacted with many different deployment solutions. From bash, to Heroku, to ECS, and finally kubernetes. I love kubernetes but feel like that last mile still needs covered, and I feel like Dagger could be the perfect solution.

[lean raft]

Hi, I'm Nate, a software developer from the great white north (can't call myself an engineer here). Responsible for enhancing our processing and presentation of all metrics relating to Kubernetes/OpenShift . Exploring ways to speed up our slow Java monorepo build.

[pallid hearth]

welcome! We look forward to seeing what each of you build with Dagger 🚀

[next steeple]

Hi, I'm Tsiry Sandratraina, a software engineer from Antananarivo, Madagascar. It's been a month since I built https://fluentci.io : a mix of Dagger, Deno, Nix and Devbox. Still experimental project 🧑‍🔬 😅

[real grove]

Hi all! I'm the tech lead for extensibility (via custom code) at Auth0, which is now part of OKTA. I heard @near storm on The Changelog and that piqued my curiosity. I didn't quite understand the how or why at the time but a read through the intro tutorial was enough to make things click for me. Great job on keeping it simple but demonstrative! I'm immediately drawn to exploring the boundaries of this tech! I know the current spin is low throughout CI/CD but the engine itself seems so generic and powerful. 🧪⚛️

[ripe wing]

Welcome Geoff! Marcos from Argentina here. Long time friend of Matias and Damian. Happy to have you onboard!

[real grove]

Sweet! Great people to know 😁

[violet dune]

Hi! Martin here, software-engineer from the Netherlands working in the financial sector with an interest in CI/CD. Was listening to The Changelog and the project sparked my interest. I mainly use Python and Java, but will use tinkering around with Dagger as an excuse to get my hands dirty on GoLang some more! 🧑‍💻

[near storm]

Welcome Martin! Don't hesitate to ask questions as you start experimenting. We love beginner questions, they help us a lot improve the clarity of the product & docs.

[chrome gulch]

Hey all! My name is George from the USA, and I'm a software engineer. I use a few languages and want to start experimenting with Dagger!

[silk otter]

Hey all, Andrew here. I work on a DevEx team and am auditing using Dagger to clean up some of the YAML hell that is our pipelines as well as making it runnable locally. I'll probably spam #help with some questions along the way so apologies in advance! I'm in Toronto and am always down for meetups and talking shop!

[pallid hearth]

Nice to meet you! Since you mentioned meetups, will you be at KubeCon?

[timid plinth]

Hello all, Paul here. I am a software engineer working in the embedded field with a strong focus on DevOps. I am mainly looking for a nice way build a smooth build pipeline in combination with a monorepo. I already experimented a bit with Earthly and Bazel, but I am now looking into Dagger with the hope for more freedom in how things should or could look like 🙂 Looking forward to discover what is possible already!

[tardy magnet]

Hello everyone, I'm Nuno from Portugal.
I recently changed my career to IT and I'm currently working as a DevOps engineer at an insurance software company. I came across dagger through the changelog podcast, and I've been working on a new tool for the company and I'm studying the use of dagger for CI .
Nice to meet you all

[silk otter]

Probably not going to make it out for that one, unfortunately

[warm bramble]

Hello y'all, I'm Gabe an engineer out of US West. I'm a big fan of "actually just code" tools such as Pulumi and Gradle. Also I'm a Big hater of yaml trying to convince us its a "declarative" programming language Looking forward to this project!

[queen moth]

Helo i'm Oscar a Junior engineer that wants to not become a yaml engineer when dealing with k8s and ci / cd things and dagger looks like a good tool. Plus it helps me getting more comfortable working with Programing languages.

[wise swift]

Hi everyone! I'm Mihai, software engineer working in backend for a SAAS startup and at the same time trying to improve the CI/CD pipeline by having everything in code (not yaml). Looking forward to discover the possibilities of the dagger project. 🙂

[dense walrus]

Heya all! I'm Justin, maybe a familiar face to some people here already 😄 I'm going to be joining the dagger team next month, so looking forward to seeing a lot more of everyone! I'm one of the BuildKit maintainers, and general contributor around the container ecosystem, so love anything and everything open source 🎉 I'm also a fan of picking up and collecting any new programming languages 😅

[noble herald]

Hey folks! I'm Sebastian! I work as a DevOps Enigneer within a company which tackles self driving shuttles 🙂 - Unfortunatly, we are still using Jenkins :D. We should have switched to Azure by now (company policy) but we have some kind of lock in with jenkins. That's how I got to Dagger. Which I experiment with now at home for my own projects 🙂

[karmic swallow]

Hi @noble herald 👋 Lots of folks using Jenkins and Dagger 🙂 Also Azure Pipelines and Dagger. Let us know if we can help 🙂

[noble herald]

The remark I got in the past regarding Dagger, is the issue with Windows. However, I didn't understand (yet) clearly why that should be an issue. Using Dagger and Docker-Desktop on Windows shouldn't be a problem, right? Perhaps with future "windows-container"?

[karmic swallow]

Correct, Dagger works fine on Windows with Docker Desktop using Linux containers in your pipelines.

[charred mural]

Hi, I am a backend engineer, and I am very glad to join the community

[stoic nimbus]

Hello. I'm a DevOps Engineer. Glad to join the community.

[stoic nimbus]

Same. I might be stuck with Jenkins in my next job. Dagger might be the tool to use to minimize the interaction with Jenkins to create pipelines.

[near storm]

Ha ha, I hear that a lot. We should add more resources to document how to use Dagger and Jenkins together. It's a popular and promising combo.

Welcome everyone 🙂

[noble herald]

It is. I could imagine a lot of people coming to dagger, because they finaly need to get rid of Jenkins (because they moved to another plattform like GitLab, Azure, etc.) and the management asks the question: How can we avoid the plattfrom lock? And dagger might be a good anser.

[sleek comet]

Hey all, I'm a platform engineer.

I did the classic career progression of Jenkins-in-VM-nodes (apt installing things for devs, oh well) to a docker-only system (Buildkite in my case), and the focus on "docker-as-core" really stuck to me.
Recently I was looking into Pulumi as alternatives to Terraform, and the focus on using the language you're comfortable with to make your infrastructure was appealing. Hence looking at Dagger, in particular for Python.

Curious to see any development done on "abusing the native language", stuff like making reusable functions that do only some of the CI, for shipping as library, so devs can from myorg.ci.deploy import k8s_deploy_prod etc, preconfigured for the organisation.
Same interest on switching the real dagger engine for a mock, which can be used to do some testing of such libraries. Alternative of generating the DAG via such mock would be nice too, for visualization/debugging.

I'm aware that Dagger is still young, and this may be a big ask, this is just the stuff I personally believe will make people see the massive benefits Dagger can bring.

[thorn pecan]

Hi all! I'm Jordan Wong, a University Student from National University of Singapore (NUS) interested in the DevOps space. I am interested to see how I can implement Dagger to my personal projects! Nice seeing y'all!

[radiant kayak]

@karmic swallow and @polar flume have some experience with Daggerizing Jenkins pipelines

[spring olive]

Hey all! I'm Luis Salomão, currently i'm implementing Dagger on a open-source project after some users requests, so i figured it was a good idea to meet you all ( and eventualy ask some questions 😄 )
I really liked Dagger and will sure use it on some personal projects as well. I'm also interested in tech in general and eletronics! Really keen to meet everyone!

[near storm]

Welcome Luis! We're happy to help, and answer your questions anytime

[median maple]

Welcome! Excited to see what you build 🙂

[spiral pawn]

Hey everyone! I'm Daniel, looking into Dagger as part of my role as Head of Engineering for holi.social, an open source social startup that tries to revolutionize social and ecological engagement (currently only DACH region).

I heard about Dagger in the Changelog podcast and I'm looking into it to see if it could help us getting away from CI/CD vendor lock-ins (GitLab / GitHub) and overall to get CI/CD into a better shape (e.g. away from YAML and faaaaaster).

[near storm]

Welcome Daniel! We’re happy to help

[versed saffron]

Hi everyone,
I'm a System Engineer who learns DevOps, DevSecOps and Cloud Native technologies regularly... 🤓👋

[ripe wing]

@versed saffron good to see you here 😄. This time you're very early in the game 🎮

[sterile harbor]

Hi everyone,
I am a Software Engineer currently working as an SRE. Looking forward to contribute to the project.

[median maple]

Welcome! Thanks for joining our community 🙂

[median maple]

Hello and welcome! Dagger was purpose built for software engineers working as SREs 😂

I am excited to see what you build.

[sterile harbor]

Thanks! Hopefully the dagger go SDK will satisfy my craving for writing software 😂.

[versed saffron]

I'm just gathering new information. 😉

[rich girder]

Ok, I have a little confession to make and it's possible that I may be the only one feeling this, but I thought I should bring it up as something that could happen to other newcomers...

Backstory:
I've been following the devops scene since 2015, when I became the release manager at an over capitalized and poorly organized web security startup. No one else wanted to do the job (and I was the only person left who knew how to increment the release number on an .ISO). We were running Docker in production, terraform, GitHub enterprise, Artifactory, the list goes on....

That experience left me with the conviction that the web development toolchain is a loosely coordinated assembly line and most people get it wrong. I became a student of the transition from source code to executables.
So when I see what's happening here, I thought to myself "ok these folks have the right idea, they are paying attention to the right things, they are laughing in the right places." I hadn't worked with @near storm before and he's a nice guy, very much at ease with his demigod status.
I have a few pleasant interactions with this guy named Gerhard, we have a lot in common.
So I feel very much at home. I share a few jokes with Gerhard and he sends me a link to a blog post and I realize "OMG, he's Gerhard from Changelog!!"
....and I start screaming like a teenage groupie.

I quickly pulled myself together and I reminded myself that I have spent a lot of time with elite teams and we're all just doing our best to figure this stuff out and raise the bar a bit higher.
I also realized that a different person might get intimidated by the abundance of world class expertise in the room.
So I will make it a point to check in with newcomers to find out it they are doing ok... (continued.)

or if there are any fears holding them back.

(nb: I've been listening to ChangeLog since 2016 or so. The voices of Jared and Adam are my companions when I do the dishes at night).

[smoky widget]

Hey, all. I'm Dan. I arrived here circuitously while developing a proof of concept for a new image build tool that wraps BuildKit LLB (using protobuf for schema, CEL for macro expansion and validation).

I had that feeling one gets when you know someone must have already done what you're currently doing but much better, and that landed me at Dagger which sent me reading all about CUE and then back to the Dagger CUE reference where I saw that, yes, someone has indeed already decided to wrap the LLB API in a accessible/flexible language that does not abuse the already much abused and abusable syntax of YAML.

I'm slightly confused though. It seems the CUE related docs say they're for a deprecated version of Dagger. Does Dagger still use these CUE types directly or indirectly, or is it all native language SDKs now, and why or why not?

Slightly more background about me: I work at Wikimedia Foundation and built a funny little image build tool called Blubber that used to just transpile YAML to Dockerfile (before BuildKit was a thing) and is now a BuildKit frontend. See https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/blubber/-/tree/experimental/native-llb?ref_type=heads

[near storm]

Welcome! And sorry for the confusion, here's the situation:

• You are correct that the Dagger Engine adds an accessible API and developer experience on top of buildkit/llb 🙂
• Dagger initially lauched with support for the CUE language only
• After much user feedback, we re-engineered Dagger to support multiple languages. Currently there are stable SDKs for Go, Python and Node.JS; and experimental SDKs for Rust, Elixir, Java
• There is also a "CUE SDK" but it targets an older branch of Dagger (0.2). There are ongoing efforts to update the CUE developer experience, but they are still work in progress. See #cuelang

[smoky widget]

Right on. Thanks, @near storm. I'll keep poking around! 😃 I'm curious, what are some of the shortcomings of the CUE developer experience at the moment? Is it because #cuelang itself is still a work in progress?

[near storm]

Good question. Let's move this discussion to #cuelang 🙂

[median maple]

If anyone else is curious, this specific lore was covered nicely in this segment of Changelog recently 😇 https://changelog.com/podcast/550#t=2560

[dense walrus]

hey @smoky widget! i think we've interacted before in buildkit-land before, good to see you here!

[smoky widget]

oh cool! good to see you as well 🙂

[smoky widget]

oh yeah, I think you refactored my buildctl --wait contribution. thanks again for that! our k8s buildkitd cluster is actually working quite well with that on the client side and istio circuit-breaking the buildkitds

[dense walrus]

Yeah I actually pulled that same change into dagger a couple days ago 🙂 glad it's working well for you ❤️

[smoky widget]

right on 🙂

[hidden token]

Hey @random echo! Ready to rock

[valid meteor]

Doing development and infrastructure. Trying new systems and software

[surreal anchor]

Hey I'm Julien. I was at the meetup Yesterday.

At work i'm Staff Engineer for Trainline working mostly on the backend across multiple teams (Primary Ruby but company is mainly C#). Like a lot of large company i'm dealing with multiple CI stack internally.

On my free time i'm doing open source using mostly python.

[ripe wing]

Welcome Julien!

[near storm]

thanks for coming to the meetup Julien, and welcome 🤗

[median maple]

Welcome, thanks for joining our community!

[jaunty narwhal]

Hello,

I'm happy to be here 🙂

• I'm a girl-dad, my 1,5y daughter means the world to me
• I've not used dagger before
• I've got super limited exp with other's pipeline tooling over all
• I've written one too many lines of bash in my nearly 10 year "support - > operations person" career
• I'm intrigued by open source and I'd love to share something that makes a positive impact
• I've been building and operating an in-house on-prem k8s as a service for 4 years
• I'm looking towards a bright future as I'm quite the optimistic guy

[near storm]

Welcome! Let us know if you want to discuss possible use cases for Dagger.

[ripe wing]

https://tenor.com/Qp3V.gif

[jaunty narwhal]

Hi and thnx, I'm in the process of setting up gh action workflows for a green field project and I'm already convinced that I will be giving dagger a shot, if not only to bridge the gap from my old bash habits into something commonly used as gh actions.

I'll holler if I run into any snags 😇

[hollow tide]

Hello there ! 👋
My name is Franck and I work as a lead dev at 42 School. I've heard about Dagger through Solomon's tweets.
I tried the tool today and I really loved it 🙂 This would give a taste of DevOps to my dev team !
I come here for my (future) questions about the tool. But anyway, thank you for making Dagger 🙂

[near storm]

Welcome Franck! Let us know if we can help with anything

[median maple]

Welcome! I started my career in a similar place moving from support to operations, I am sure you have some very interesting stories to share 😄

[median maple]

Welcome, thanks so much for joining us!

[hard heart]

Hello friends, really happy to be here after having great moment at the meetup in Paris tuesday. I am Microsoft employee working mainly on devops stuffs those days. Happy father of 3 kids. Live in Paris. Hope to speak you soon !

[ripe wing]

hey @hard heart! welcome! awesome to have you around.

[wise sable]

Hello everyone, I’m Clément. I have just finished Epitech school and I've been working as a full stack freelancer for 2 years. I was at the meetup too and I have a better understanding of the potential of Dagger.

[median maple]

Welcome! Really glad you were able to make it to the meetup and decided to join us here 😄

[median maple]

Welcome to our community, really excited that you are here!

[radiant kayak]

Welcome!! @jaunty narwhal @hollow tide @hard heart @wise sable @valid meteor @surreal anchor ! Check out #general and #1030538312508776540 to see how others are using Dagger and to share your experience. And... the community is working on some cool things now in #daggernauts -- reusable, sharable modules with cross-language compatibility and a lot of amazing new features.

[gusty tusk]

respect everyone

[tough quest]

Hi all! I'm Kacper I'm a quant dev on a fintech project, building a derivative valuation platform. Was recently tasked with upgrading and overhauling our CI/CD pipeline (GitLab) and boy... I think you all know the pain. Can't believe its 2023 and we're using YAML to do this still! That drove me to search for an alternative, one where I could use actual code to describe the workflow and Dagger looks very interesting. Looking forward to trying it out!

[median maple]

Hey! Glad that you found us 😄

Excited to see what you are able to do with Dagger. What language(s) are you using these days?

[tough quest]

We use mainly Python (for computation - numpy/numba/cython) and C# (for everything else). Also some SQL Server Stored Procedures are left from the darker times 😅

[median maple]

I remember those lovely darker times 😂

FYI - We have a great python SDK that is ready for production use and an experimental .NET SDK that is a WIP. https://github.com/dagger/dagger/tree/main/sdk/dotnet

[ornate spindle]

Hi all o/ -- I'm a DevSecOps director for an industrial automation company, and I'm gearing up to drive CI development towards Dagger to bring together multiple DevOps teams that are currently re-creating each others' YAML/BASH scripts in GitLab, GitHub, ADO, and Jenkins.. I'm currently creating some example Dagger workflows, measuring improvements in caching, and finding fun ways to inspire folks to learn Go!

[median maple]

Welcome, thanks for joining us!

currently re-creating each others' YAML/BASH scripts in GitLab, GitHub, ADO, and Jenkins

I love to see this because this is the exactly problem that we set out to solve from the start. I am excited to see you solve this at your company once and for all. 😄

[snow comet]

Hello 🙂 I'm a Software Engineer working at Scaleway and in my team we are currently migrating our CI/CD pipeline to dagger. I would have some questions on the best way to organize dagger pipeline, how to run and orchestrate them in a DAG (lile first lint then test and build then publish)

[whole cliff]

Hello,
I'm Software Engineer /Consultant working in switzerland. I'm intrested in dagger and the issues that it resolves.
we are trying to reach out to maybe create an extension for IOT world (most of the poeple are embedded/IOT Engineer).

[signal badger]

Hello 👋 glad to be here, I contribute to TruStacks and was part of the dagger call, looking forward to apply Dagger even in my personal hobbies https;//developer.ericgitangu.com

[median maple]

Welcome, great to have you here! Would it be helpful to jump on a call and go over some best practices?

[median maple]

Welcome! That sounds interesting, could you share more about what you mean by extension for IOT? Is this like integrating with some IOT tooling or making some IOT specific build optimizations?

[median maple]

Welcome to the community, excited to see what you come up with 😄

[snow comet]

Yeah sure! In french would be preferred for me but english is OK as well

[median maple]

Awesome, ill DM you to coordinate some time and I will find someone on our side who speaks french to help 😄

[signal badger]

Sounds great 👍, tomorrow works for me

[tame onyx]

I'm Software Engineer/Game Programmer in Japan.I am currently trying to build a build pipeline of C++ applications for Windows and MacOS.However, I am struggling to handle Windows images in dagger.

[median maple]

Welcome, could you share more about what issues you are running into in #1030538312508776540 ?

[slender wave]

Hello! I’m a machine learning engineer and entrepreneur in Perú. I’m very interested in Dagger because for me it’s like a game changer for making CI/CD easier for my workflow and my team.

[dull kestrel]

Hello from France, I'm grumpycat aka eagleusb aka Leslie; and after debating a long time if ever Dagger is useful or just a new marketing coup I'm willing to try it out for some brand new (infrastructure) pipelines.

[fossil tapir]

Hello from Germany, coming here as a happy Concourse user. I am trying to understand how Dagger is different and potentially better.

[warm crypt]

Hello from Philly 👋 .

[quick cape]

Good morning from Houston

[full wyvern]

Good evening from Paris, France

[near storm]

https://tenor.com/view/huston-we-have-a-trouble-trouble-movie-space-gif-10695726280627988563

[near storm]

https://tenor.com/view/france-eiffel-tower-paris-mustache-bonjour-gif-15166247

[stuck summit]

Hello, I'm Riya from India. Currently studying in college doing computer science and engineering. I've been exploring Nix space for quite some time now. Trying to make nix more accessible for users and developers. I love to play with the low level side of things, enjoy learning more about various linux distributions and hacking technologies like unikernels, wasm, eBPFs, etc.

I came to know about this project recently and seems pretty exciting to me.

[near storm]

Welcome Riya!

You're in good company, there are several Nix fans in the Dagger community, Nix+Dagger seems like it can be a powerful combination, and a lot of the ideas and concepts cross over

[dawn sail]

Hello everyone, I’m Ernesto from Nicaragua. Very excited about dagger and hoping to learn more about it here

[versed cipher]

Hello, Ryan from NJ (USA) here. Amateur coder, lots of infra experience, looking to learn how to build a CI/CD pipeline and automated testing.

[near storm]

Welcome Ryan! What’s your language of choice when coding?

[versed cipher]

Python, PHP, JavaScript... Trying to learn some Java

[elfin hearth]

Hi, you guys rock - I have a tough deployment ahead of me, I'm sure looking to Dagger to help 🙂 get the customer what they need!

[lime ice]

Hey y'all, Michael from NJ (USA). Huge Linux nerd, Full Stack Dev for work, but more of a jack-of-all trades. I've been a huge advocate for Docker, and gave a talk on how it works at my uni (NJIT) back in 2012.
I got very lucky and had the opportunity to meet Solomon at Kubecon and we talked about ci/cd and Dagger so I thought I'd join in on the fun here 🙂

[near storm]

Welcome to the fun 😁 See you at the Dagger booth?

[lime ice]

Absolutely 😊

[hollow kraken]

Hello! I'm Will. I met some awesome people at the booth today at Kubecon. My day job is at Fannie Mae and my personal start up is https://aktiver.io.

I can't wait to start replacing my some of my Ansible with Dagger!

[near storm]

Welcome Will! Thanks for coming to the booth, and for joining us here 😁

[bleak lynx]

Hi All, I'm Travis F and at KubeCon, trying the examples in the getting started

[near storm]

Welcome!

[bleak lynx]

Thanks, and great to meet and speak with you about being an Entrepreneur

[karmic swallow]

Woohoo! Glad to see you Travis and was great to see you in person at KubeCon!!

[bleak lynx]

For sure man, great to get back to community. Need to work on my CFPs now and get back to where I want to be

[marsh nymph]

Hey folks, Hugo here from Namespace Labs, was great to see you at Kubecon 👋

[dense walrus]

Heya @marsh nymph! Think I've run into you on the buildkit issue tracker before, good to see you here 🎉

[marsh nymph]

Pleasure to be here 👋

[mellow elbow]

Hi

[slender wave]

Hey all ! I'm from Switzerland, and I want to help other infrastructure teams create, manage, debug and improve on their release process in the easiest way possible. One of those ways would be to have a better way to interact with your pipelines locally, for example not having to push your changes to test your config in a dev environment while doing gitops. Cheers !

[median maple]

Welcome! I volunteered at a Hackathon at NJIT about 10 years ago when I was working at Linode, it was one of my favorites because of the tight-knit community there.

[terse bluff]

Hi y'all, I'm from Puzzle ITC in Switzerland. Nice to be here!

[warm mirage]

Hi, I am a System Engineer in Toronto Canada. I am here to learn and share my knowledge

[faint sinew]

Hey. I’m in Chicago. I wear many hats and have a few bespoke builds that need to go through a series of tubes and these builds abhor basic caching.

[near storm]

Love the “series of tubes”, I felt that 😁 You’ve come to the right place, I hope we can help.

[ancient ridge]

Hey folks, I am Laszlo from Gimlet.io / Hungary
Mark was pushing Dagger so hard that I am now sold on the idea of dagger.io.
About to put a couple of pipelines into dagger, and expect a huge speedup 😄

[surreal umbra]

Hi all, I have been messing with Docker for about 5 years and recently learned kates. This seems like the future though. Glad to be here. I hope that we can also address the slow build times. (e.g. right now I'm investigating how to bring my own runners to GitHub Actions, specifically for ARM, because I cannot wait 10 minutes* on public cloud runners, with each PR)

[median maple]

Hey folks, I am Laszlo from Gimlet.io /

[stable gate]

Hello from Paris 🇫🇷 yes I'm in the road!
Any planned Paris meetup or was it just that one I missed by a few weeks?

[devout tinsel]

Hi from Almelo, the Netherlands, just watched Soloman on Bret Fisher Docker and DevOps on YouTube.

[near storm]

Welcome ! Thanks for watching 😁

[prisma marsh]

Hello from Maldives 🇲🇻. My name is Looth and i am a SysAdmin past years and just trying to learn and master DevOps to become a professional DevOps engineer. Watched the podcast video regarding Dagger and here i am. Looks exciting. 😍

[near storm]

Welcome Looth!

[prisma marsh]

Thanks @near storm 🚀

[echo nest]

Hello from Toronto, Canada! I'm Chris, a software engineer. I knew about Dagger since 2021 and would like to build my next CI/CD project with it!

[ripe wing]

Welcome Chris! Looking forward to see what you build. Ping if you have any questions

[devout hawk]

Hey everyone! I'm Josh and I run the Rolls-Royce Software Factory. We met the Dagger team at Kubecon and I'm excited about how it could improve our pipelines and work. I'm starting to convert one project as a test, so we'll see!

May want to reach out eventually to chat about self-storage, govClouds, and other fun stuff like that.

Love that you guys have a discord!

[near storm]

Welcome Josh! It was great to meet you at Kubecon. We’re here to help!

[zenith thistle]

Hey! I'm an SRE from Western Canada 🇨🇦. Heard about you guys from the Kube Cuddle podcast. Interested to see how the tooling can help our team!

[ripe wing]

Hey! Welcome! Happy to have you around.

[ionic pumice]

Hi all, I'm Amine, a final year Network & Infra student also working on setting up CI/CD during my apprenticeship.

I've just discovered Dagger and am keen to explore how it can enhance my pipelines.

Judging by the gig and doc, seems like it could ease some of my pain points.

[karmic swallow]

Welcome!

[vagrant otter]

Hello, I'm zeroware. I do security and devops consulting from France. Already experimenting with Dagger on my machine. 🤠

[wild dune]

Hey,
I am a software developer with 1.5years of experience in very early age startup wanted to work with you, I started my coding job just after my high school
My Portfolio: https://yash-raj.vercel.app/
My Github: https://github.com/yashrajillusion/

Would love to hear from you

[proud patrol]

Hi, all.
I'm seeking a job as a full stack designer & developer.
Specializes in building the website from scratch and blockchain product.
If you have any work or new venture arise, inform me.
Thanks!

[cunning tinsel]

Heyo, I am currently writing a Bachelor's thesis about various CI/CD providers and the overall DevOps ecosystem. I have found Dagger and so far, it seems really cool!

[ripe wing]

Welcome! let us know if there's anything we can help you with!

[noble herald]

That sounds cool! If you don't mind asking, in which direction are you going? Do you want to take a look into the CI/CD landscape in general? The interaction between tools? The advantages/disadvantages of the tools and the pipeline itself? General processes like trunk-based and banch-based development?

[cunning tinsel]

No I don't mind at all! I am doing a general overview of not only CI/CD landscape but also other parts of DevOps like monitoring - think Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry and such - and containerization and orchestration - kubernetes, docker etc. After that, I am going to compare each technology in each step. I will then use some combination (e.g. Dagger CI, Kubernetes and Promstack) in tandem with some pilot application. Finally, I will write a guide of some sorts, that should guide developers to a better DevOps experience. I think, that the last step is going to be the most difficult, since writing is not my strong part... 🤪

[noble herald]

The monitoring is a great idea. Perhpas you should take a look on the "Dora"-Metrics (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/using-the-four-keys-to-measure-your-devops-performance?hl=en). Using a combination as a sample is also great. Especially if you can show what issues you are solvinbg with it. Perhaps, you should also take a look into a "older" stack? Dagger etc. is awesome and I am a strong beleiver in it. But a lot of companies are still working e.g. with jenkins etc. You could make a comparison why that "old" version is old and why the new version is even better 😉

[cunning tinsel]

Thanks, I will look at Dora-metrics! And yes, I will also look into an older stack. I have used Jenkins at our company aswell as Gitlab CI and Github Actions. But I gave Dagger as an example since this is a Dagger discord. 😉

[noble herald]

You are absolutly right. And dagger is awesome 🙂

[dawn ore]

Hello, my name is Noé. I am an apprentice DevOps engineer from France. I've been willing to try out dagger for a while now and so I joined this discord to push myself to use it in a future project at school or at work.

[near storm]

Welcome Noé! Let us know if you need help with choosing the right project 😁 Any good candidates?

[dawn ore]

I'm not sure yet. I'm going to participate in a hackathon soon and if a challenge involves CI/CD, I may try to use dagger for this. I'm also interested in pulumi so I might try to play with both dagger and pulumi on a minikube cluster when I have some time.

[true python]

Hello Everyone! I'm Edwin. I'm an old dog learning new tricks 🫠 ...I've only been in the field of DevOps for a couple years, but in the tech industry for 20yrs. I'm quite intrigued by Dagger's portability between CI platforms. I work mainly on infrastructure, and see the wonderful possibilities when combining Dagger and IaC tools like Pulumi.

[ripe wing]

Welcome Edwin! good to have you around. Dagger and Pulimi are definitely a good match. I recall not so long ago someone presented a demo about it in our bi-weekly community calls. Here's a link of the recording: #1139631560497307661 message. Our #1075928318802657340 channel has a bunch of cool Dagger stuff there.

[true python]

Thanks @ripe wing ...I'll check it out!

[dire tiger]

🌺 Hi, I'm Kirby! I live in NYC, and joined the Dagger community as I am the Wolfi community manager. Jeremy & Kyle will be speaking on our community call today Nice to meet everyone! 🙂

[near storm]

Welcome Kirby! Thanks for joining us. We also have a channel dedicated to using Wolfi and Dagger together: #chainguard

[cerulean urchin]

Hi everyone, I'm Omri, a Golang and Linux enjoyer and a computer science graduate from Melbourne, Australia. I joined the server in order to learn more about Dagger from the community.

[median maple]

Welcome! Glad you are here 😄

[flint prawn]

Hello! I'm John, a former Docker employee and current consultant specializing in private and hybrid cloud for organizations with out-of-control AWS spend. I'm super excited to work with Dagger more, and it's also really cool to finally make a new Discord account for business-related topics. If you know of any DevOps or other cool Discord communities, feel free to pass them on!

[karmic swallow]

Welcome, John!

[median maple]

Welcome! Thanks for coming 🙂

[slim light]

Hello everyone, I'm Víctor,a devops engineer from Spain. Im really excited about. Dagger and I joined the community to learn and contribute. Really nice project!!

[ripe wing]

Hola Víctor! Bienvenido!

[median maple]

Hello everyone, I'm Víctor,a devops

[rose wyvern]

hello, I'm Kimsia, a Django web dev

can i ask the event is in what timezone?

[dense walrus]

I think it should be auto-converted to your own timezone - but if that's the case the time doesn't look quite right to me 🤔

[dark basin]

Hi there, I'm Stefano Canepa and Italian software engineer who moved to Ireland to develop cloudy things using Go. I have a passion for FLOSS, CI/CD and good documentation even if, usually, I write really bad docs. I've just started to learn what dagger can do and if it could be used at work in our GitHub action based CI.

[near storm]

Welcome Stefano!

[dark basin]

BTW: this is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgE7Y2Lvxro&t=272s why I'm here. 🙂

[near storm]

Hey I know that guy! 😄

[slender wave]

Hi, I'm Pietrangelo Masala from Italy. Currently I work for a company called Entando as an SRE and I really like the idea of Dagger!!!.

[median maple]

Hi, I'm Pietrangelo Masala from Italy.

Hi there, I'm Stefano Canepa and Italian

[last mortar]

[rich girder]

De paso, @ripe wing ¿ que te parece montar unos encuentros en español de vez en cuando ?

• @slim light

[lapis igloo]

#intros

[alpine cliff]

Hey, I'm Mike. I run BrowserCat, a platform offering the browser as an API.

[slender wave]

Heya, I'm Edsger - DevOps engineer in the Amsterdam region - Looking into Dagger to bring scalability and structure in our ci/cd projects

[median maple]

Hey, I'm Mike. I run BrowserCat, a

[stone sundial]

Hello everyone, I'm Isaac a Principal Devops engineer and Software architect working on a big pharma company, Looking into Dagger for make our CI/ Local developer builds faster using cache system

[ripe wing]

Welcome! we're here to help if you have any questions!

[indigo smelt]

Hello, I am Ayato a SWE from the United States. I am currently working on build my team's CI/CD and looking into using Dagger!

[rose wyvern]

Event timezone

[slender wave]

hi i'm Idriss, a data engineer at Havas. i love the Havas CLI acyclical loading designs

[raw furnace]

Hi everyone, I'm Jimmi 👋

[sturdy glacier]

Hello, I am Jessie from Ohio! Excited to learn more about Dagger

[lavish heart]

Hello, I'm Khushboo, a software engineer and community builder 👋

[median maple]

Hello, I am Jessie from Ohio! Excited to

[median maple]

Hello, I am Ayato a SWE from the United

[stable gate]

In Chamonix France for the next couple days and loving this beautiful country and people 🇫🇷 .
Such a rich geographic diversity in this country!

[unreal lava]

I absolutely love Chamonix! Beautiful mountains with never ending trails!! I hope you have a great time there!

[stable gate]

France

[white apex]

Hi I'm Mark and I'm exploring using Dagger in Network Automation use cases

[ripe wing]

👋 welcome!

[obsidian fog]

Hi! I'm Zed and am part of the OKD working group, @rich girder pointed me here!

[near storm]

Welcome Zed! I'm curious to learn more about OKD and how it might benefit from Dagger 🙂

[median maple]

Welcome, thanks for joining us!

[rich girder]

Yes, @obsidian fog and the other folks in the OKD upstream community are looking into creating a test/build pipeline outside of the current RedHat infrastructure. I suggested that we look into using the dagger engine to build/run a temporary OpenShift cluster from the Tekton pipelines currently handling the workflow.

The barebones process of build is summarized (and I use the term guardedly) here: https://upstreamwithoutapaddle.com/home-lab/okd-crc/

[acoustic breach]

Hi I'm Colin, software engineer based out of Seattle work at dbt Labs recently started using dagger to improve our CI processes

[median maple]

Hey Colin, great to see you here!

[unreal lava]

Welcome Colin! I love dbt, I used it extensively in a previous job!

[rich girder]

I had a brief surprise when I saw your post because my son Collin lives in Seattle 😊 (maybe we can all get together the next time I'm in town) 🤣

[clear igloo]

Hello everyone, my name is Emmanuel Sibanda a SWE based typically based in Austin but currently in NYC. Recently learnt about Dagger and I've just been deep diving into your docs and building POCs to get a better understanding of Dagger's value and how it works

[near storm]

Welcome Emmanuel! Don't hesitate to ask for help as you experiment with your first POCs.

[median maple]

Welcome! Would love to hear any feedback you have as you continue to explore Dagger.

[quick wind]

Hello everyone, My name is Harsha! I'm a software engineer and founder based out Chattanooga, TN!

[near storm]

Welcome Harsha! What's the startup? Tell us more 😁

[quick wind]

Working through a pivot right now! Right now we’re interested the customer success space, potentially helping folks talks to their users better!

[quartz tusk]

👋🏼 just realized that I've been lurking around for a while and haven't introduced myself.

My name is Miguel, I am a co-founder and core maintainer of https://github.com/chainloop-dev/chainloop.

I am currently looking into writing a Zenith module for Chainloop to enable collecting Software Supply Chain metadata and attestations from your dagger pipelines 🙂

Shout out to @cobalt fulcrum for his excelent help so far!

[karmic swallow]

Awesome Miguel! Let us know if we can help in any way 🙂

[quartz tusk]

will do, thanks!

[median maple]

Great to meet you, thanks for introducing yourself! +1 for Nipuna being amazing 😄

[pallid rune]

Hi everyone, My name is Emirhan 😇 , I'am a DevOps Engineer at Vakifbank 🤩

[unreal lava]

Welcome Emirhan!

[azure depot]

Hello everyone, Simon from Denmark here. I'm working in the tooling team at TV 2 DK and is working on integrating Dagger into our GitHub Actions pipeline 👋

[candid raptor]

Hello there! Steffen from Denmark here. Working @ Eficode and currently trying to craft a custom CI system using dagger as the workflow engine 👋

[slender wave]

Hello, I am Jake, based in Amsterdam and working as a software developer on the platfor engineering team at Storyteq. We are evaluating dagger and specifically the typescript sdk to replace our CI pipelines.

[balmy pond]

Welcome @slender wave

[stray ferry]

Hello everyone !!! I'm Dimitri I'm from France, and today I will do r&d on dagger glad to finally test it !!! I'm quite excited !

[near storm]

Hi Dimitri! Have fun today, and please don't hesitate to ask questions or share your ideas.

Do you know what you want to build for your test project?

[stray ferry]

I'm starting by listing all the pains points we have on existing projects, more particularly with gitlab-ci !
At the end of the day we want to do an entire pipeline (build, test, deliver to registry and deploy)
And we want to see how it integrates with gitlab-ci, the part about the local run will really be a game changer !
I'm intrigued about what cloud can give us more !

[near storm]

may I recommend that you follow the quickstart for the Zenith release? It uses new features (dagger function, modules) that are still experimental, but are 99% finished and work great in latest stable release. By next month it will no longer be experimental.

https://docs.dagger.io/zenith/

[oblique cobalt]

Hi i am Jay from India. Primary work on cloud native backend development.

[pallid trail]

Hi folks! I am Vishnu from Bangalore, India. I work on infra and CI/CD at Hasura. Excited to start using dagger finally! Always wished for a tool like it (Ask me about the time when dagger didn't exist and I wrote Go code to burn down 2000 lines of YAML configuration that was used for our CI 😅)

[rapid basin]

Hi! Cooleest project pn the web rn, looking forward to leaving yaml mess behind soon 🙂

[tawny cliff]

hi guys

[cobalt panther]

Hey folks 🙂 I'm Chris. DevOps Engineer at a FinTech startup in Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[old swift]

Welcome @cobalt panther - I'm in Glasgow

[rancid notch]

Hey 👋 I’m Robin, developer, from Lyon 🇫🇷 mostly doing architecture consulting lately. Also Symfony (PHP Framework) core developer and maintainer.
I’m keeping an eye on Dagger in a hope to reduce the pain caused by vendor-specific YAML in projects I’m working on 🙂

[analog oak]

Hey folks, I have been trying to introduce using dagger in our pipelines which have been predominately groovy scripts. I want to know about dagger modules and how they can be pulled in an air gapped environment

[analog oak]

I am trying to run basic "dagger run go run ci/main.go" in an airgapped environment linux host. I have pulled the image registry.dagger.io/engine:v0.9.11 locally through the artifactory, but I keep getting error "WARNING: failed to resolve image; falling back to leftover engine error="Get "https://registry.dagger.io/v2/\", please suggest a fix. Do I have to set any environment variable?

[wary scaffold]

Hi everyone! I am a developer from California . I'm the DevOps guy in a startup and prioritize using GitLab (Unless). I use a LOT of CDK for AWS services and I'm looking to see how I can bring something groundbreaking into our existing ways of doing things.

[uncut matrix]

Hello!

[ripe wing]

if you're in an airgapped environment, you can use _EXPERIMENTAL_DAGGER_RUNNER_HOST=docker-image://$image-ref to use your own image instead of the default one

[ripe wing]

cc @mortal sequoia another item to track for the v1.0 production readiness checklist 🙏

[median maple]

Hi everyone! I am a developer from

[analog oak]

@ripe wing, thank you so much for responding, I did try the recommended approach, unfortunately I am getting an error "new client: no driver for scheme "" found". The document seems to mention _EXPERIMENTAL_DAGGER_RUNNER_HOST to point to a running container. Appreciate any suggestions.

[terse tundra]

Hi all, I'm leading a new platform engineering team in our organization and really want to a utilize a better way to manage IAC. Dagger seems to check a lot of boxes so I'm just starting to kick the tires and see what it can do. Looking forward to engaging with the community.

[median maple]

Hi all, I'm leading a new platform

[hard turtle]

Hi I am Bram, working for Adarga.ai as a lead MLOps engineer. We are migrating all of our CI pipelines to Dagger. We have spent considerable effort writing custom a custom CLI tool and I just found out this week about zenith / dagger 0.10. I am here to stay better up to date and ask question how to migrate our tool to work with Dagger modules and functions.

[cobalt panther]

Ahh small world Paul 👀 we've chatted on LinkedIn 😆

[old swift]

Hey Robin, welcome. Good to see you again. Did you attend my Dagger talk at PHPUK few weeks go. Please join #php chan

[old swift]

Howdy! So we have 😁

[rancid notch]

Hey Paul 👋 Looks like I missed your talk! Any link?🙏
I’m in #php, thanks! Nice to see you there 🍻

[old swift]

https://youtu.be/iwhwWtQ2UQI?si=PAYvFEKPAm6Z6W1w

@rancid notch ☝️

[gritty tendon]

👋 Ilan. Formerly Product/Community at Datadog. Organizer for SCALE, a few DevOpsDays, and other community events. Mostly a python / shell guy, but dabble in everything. Just here to checkout the Daggerverse and learn a bit more.

[near storm]

Welcome Ilan!

[tired prairie]

Yasmany here, SRE at SOURCE Inc. Eager to migrate all my pipelines to dagger 🎉

[near storm]

Welcome! Tell me more, what kind of pipelines are you thinking of daggerizing?

[limber spoke]

Hi all! My name is Alexandre. I'm an entrepreneur and consultant (DevOps & SRE roles), currently helping a big insurance company.

I am very excited about Dagger and I look forward to migrate some Jenkins pipelines as well as some very complex pipelines built with an internal-tool that is too complex to maintain.

I'm also looking forward to go further than just the traditional CI/CD build & deploy pipelines. It looks to me like Dagger has the potentiel to be used for much more than just building a Docker image, and the fact that the CLI and Dagger engine allows people to run Dagger process locally instead of just in the CI is extremely empowering

[median maple]

Welcome! Thanks for joining us, excited to see what you build 😃

[lime yoke]

Hi all! I am Daniel, working as a consultant largely in Platform / DevOps type roles on projects.

Definitely feel all three of these bullets from the documentation at varying points on the job.

• Your team's "designated devops person", hoping to replace a pile of artisanal scripts with something more powerful.

• A platform engineer writing custom tooling, with the goal of unifying application delivery across organizational silos.

• A cloud-native developer advocate or solutions engineer, looking to demonstrate a complex integration on short notice.

Highly intrigued and eager to give Dagger a spin as time hopefully permits.

[median maple]

Great to meet you, welcome!

[iron ether]

Hi folks! I am Cameron - I have been working as a freelancer for the past couple of months in order to weather the turbulence in the job market for full-time DevOps roles. I have about 5+ years with tools like CircleCI, Drone, Github Actions, and some regrettable hours with Jenkins.

I have found the ability to build pipelines and test them locally with Dagger to be really powerful - where I have the option I've been sticking them into client projects on every new pipeline.

[near storm]

Hi Cameron and welcome! Thank you for the kind words. Let us know anytime if you have questions for one of your projects.

Also, we are starting a consulting partner program. If you are interested, you can ask @karmic swallow for more details

[calm talon]

Hey everyone!

I'm Yousuf, the Founder and CEO of Quantm (https://quantm.io).
We're on a mission to empower engineering teams to release with confidence by simplifying the Facebook release process.
While some might compare us to CI/CD tools, we see ourselves as a "glue company" focused on fostering a positive release culture.
I'm still exploring Dagger support, but Dagger functions seem promising for integration.
By the way, Solomon, huge respect for your work with Dagger and Docker!
Looking forward to connecting and learning from all of you!

[median maple]

Welcome, thanks for joining us, Quantm seems really interesting! I think there are a lot of philosophical similarities to our approach, we often think of Dagger as a big bottle of glue as well.

[next pagoda]

👋 Hey folks - I'm Tom, currently principal infrastructure engineer at Sano Genetics (a small-ish company trying to make personalised medicine more ubiquitous). I'm exploring dagger because in a former life (at Pivotal and then EngineerBetter) I was a prolific Concourse user and I've always been dissapointed with alternatives ever since.

At Sano we're about to make our GitHub Actions pipelines a whole lot more complicated as we roll out automation of all our deploys on every commit to master - I'm hoping Dagger makes this easier to reason about than Actions.

[mortal sequoia]

It's great to see old friends joining 👋 cc @eager sky

[eager sky]

hey hey, welcome!

[median maple]

Welcome! Let me know if I can help you think about how to best approach this project, happy to pair a bit or just bounce off ideas.

[calm talon]

Thankyou @median maple . I believe so as well that on vision and philosophy, we are aligned.

[calm talon]

This is extremely interesting ..

[thorn sand]

Hi, I'm Cliff, and help small teams develop connected products using Embedded Linux and IoT OS technologies (https://bec-systems.com/). Spent a lot of time with Yocto and wondering how Dagger could fit into next-gen embedded Linux build systems.

[terse tundra]

I'd be quite interested in peoples thoughts on this as well. We are currently starting a Yocto based project and I'm exploring the use of dagger within our organization.

[torpid dirge]

Hey folks, I'm Smaine, I have basically a sysadmin/SRE background and a pretty significant experience in linux, containers and cloud native infrastructure. I'm work as a DevOps/SRE team leader and, in my spare time I love tinkering with recent softwares and solutions: I maintain this blog post https://blog.ogenki.io/ and my future article will probably talk about dagger 😉

[near storm]

Welcome Smaine and thanks for joining! Let us know if you ever need help with that article 😁

[sharp token]

Hello, I'm Cirios. I have been working with DevOps and cloud for a while... Now I'm trying to improve my tooling and ways of developing

[lime light]

Hello, I'm Anthony, devops engineer. I'm trying to make my company accept Dagger because I'm currently too limited with Jenkins.

[ripe wing]

welcome @lime light ! we're here to help in case you need us!

[median maple]

Welcome!

Could you share any more about these limitations?

[lime light]

Thank you. I have a complex scenario with AWS CDK, where I need to destroy and deploy new version depending on current state and desired state. With Groovy and the pipeline being sandbox-restricted, I can't do what I want, and I can't test in local, which makes development really a slog.

With Dagger in Python, I hope it will make developing complex pipeline easier, and part of my team will be able to help me on that too.

[near storm]

That's the goal! You've come to the right place 🙂

[lucid estuary]

Hello everyone 👋 I'm Serhat from Istanbul. Learned about Dagger from the presentation by @cloud crystal and loved it. Looking forward to contribute to the community!

[unreal lava]

Welcome @lucid estuary!!

[cosmic cargo]

Hello everyone 👋 I am Yannik. I work at Puzzle ITC in the CI/CD team and am really hyped to use Dagger EVERYWHERE! I hope I can contribute to this community and never use Makefiles and bash scripts again (though this is quite the challenge).

[unreal lava]

Hey Yannik! Welcome! That is the energy we want!

[subtle locust]

Hello everyone, I'm Simon, currently working at deepomatic, and I find Dagger to be a very interesting project to follow. Hopefully it can help replace Jenkinsfiles, Makefiles, Dockerfiles, and *files everywhere 🙂

[unreal lava]

Hi @subtle locust! Welcome

Let us know of any questions you may have!

[tame cedar]

Hello all. I'm Clait. I work as an SRE/DevOps in healthcare currently. Hoping to get my cyber team to approve use of Dagger for the enterprise. Is there an email I can submit with my request if they need to contact Dagger for the risk assessment?

[forest kite]

Hey, I‘m Christoph, co-founder of Liquid Reply a cloud-native consultancy. Just meet @ember hawk at the Dagger kubecon booth. Super excited for your product!

[mild schooner]

Hey Alex here (one of the guys with the self build electronic badge) ,

Looking forward to give Dagger another go, after I don’t have to use CUE anymore 😜
Also looking forward to discuss unprivileged execution or ways how to use remote buildkit instances as runner fleet.

[ripe wing]

Hey Alex, good to see you here. It was awesome talking to you. Happy to continue our conversation here

[heavy widget]

Hey 👋 I'm Johan, from Sweden. I work with backend dev / infrastructure at a startup-sized company that's been around for some time now, and we're looking to refresh our stack a bit as it's a little difficult to work with. Dagger seems really interesting, and I've started poking around with it to see how it works!

[unreal lava]

Welcome Johan! Nice to see you around!

[shrewd nimbus]

Hey there! I'm Hugo, co-founder of World Game, a studio built around workflow automation to produce impactful games at scale. I had the pleasure to meet the team at the local ai dev meetup in Paris yesterday. Looking forward to learn more about Dagger, and continue the conversation we started! 🙂

[civic charm]

Hey , i'm christian i meet tom at kubecon this friday at the finish, i work as mlops / architect for various company

[dense walrus]

Welcome @shrewd nimbus, welcome @civic charm 🎉 nice to meet you!

[median maple]

Welcome!

[elfin mango]

Hi there. I’m a gitlab-ci user and would like to discover how to start with dagger in an easy and clean way.

[median maple]

Gitlab

[tidal tangle]

Hi, Michiel here. Software engineer at Spacelift. Looking into better developer experience for something that could run in GitHub Actions and could replace part of our jobs/workflows.

[dense walrus]

Nice to meet you @tidal tangle! 🎉

[smoky ocean]

Hello 👋. I'm Nuno, from Portugal. I work for a startup. I'm looking at Dagger both for personal and professional use.
I enjoyed a demo from @ripe wing at Dagger's Kubecon EU booth.
Key features that got my interest:

• Create pipelines with a mix of Typescript and Golang
  • Good for Devs that are more into Typescript and Platform teams that are more into Golang
• Run pipelines locally and remotely (save money and reduce feedback loop time)
  Nice to e-meet you all! 😄

[median maple]

Welcome! Thanks for stopping by our booth 😄

[long mulch]

Hello. I discoverd Dagger at KubeCon. I'm looking to build some simple demo's to showcase internally, however our engineering teams all build in C# .NET. I'm on the look out for material to help build a demo of Dagger & C# usage?

[slender wave]

Hello 👋 I'm lorenzo, from Italy. I work as DevOps engineer and i'm looking at Dagger to build CI for our open source project. Nice to meet you daggernauts 🧑‍🚀

[median maple]

Welcome! Could you share the project? 🙂

[slender wave]

Thanks for asking. The project is not Open Source yet, we are working hard on it at the moment and we are evaluating some tools to do the job at our best. I'll notify you when we have our first release 🙏

[median maple]

Awesome, cant wait to hear more, if I can help with anything related to Dagger please dont hesitate to ask. 🙂

[mighty abyss]

Hello all! Just starting my Dagger journey 🙂

[near storm]

Welcome 🙂 Do you have a specific project in mind? Or just experimenting for now?

[mighty abyss]

I am using the Python SDK, attempting to build a maven project and export the target directory to local, was having difficulties with the export

It seems I'm supposed to use Host.() for that? Not Directory.export()?

What is Directory.export for then?

[rustic mural]

Hey! I'm Arsh, I work at Okteto (we do dev environments on K8s) - saw a demo of Dagger at KubeCon, looking forward to playing around with it more!

[near storm]

Welcome Arsh! I think Dagger+Okteto could be a really cool combination, maybe we can explore that together 🙂

[rustic mural]

That's what I'm looking to explore! 😉

[polar flume]

Hi Arsh! 👋

[tiny prairie]

Hello everyone 🙂
I am Antoine from France. I came here because I have a coworker that is fan of Dagger and I want to share his hype

[dense walrus]

awesome, nice to meet you @tiny prairie 🎉 🎉

[smoky raft]

Hi Daggernauts. Totally new to this and just slightly confused with the current state of the documentation. Let's see whether I can find some further hints on getting started with v0.10 here.

[near storm]

Hello! I recommend trying the Quickstart for a "zero to Dagger" start: https://docs.dagger.io/quickstart

[smoky raft]

Yes, thanks @near storm . I went through the quick start and then tried to replicate my current convoluted e2e test pipeline setup working with the TypeScript SDK.

I somehow got sidetracked with an example in the old non-module syntax connect( async (client: Client) => {} , then tried to dagger install a node module from the daggerverse and couldn't get it to appear on my client object. After some further research, I initialized a proper ts-module, reinstalled the node module and now it got actually installed into my dagger.json and sdk/ folder.

Fast forward, after defining a few containers for frontend, backend, database and playwright I struggled to get my source-directory mounted, as the host() method seems to have disappeared from the dag::Client object, even if it is still listed in the docs (https://docs.dagger.io/reference/typescript/classes/api_client_gen.Client). So how can I get a source directory into my dag.node.withSource(source: Directory) container?

This issue here https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/6955 mentions, that I should use a combination of my shiny new TS module together with an old-school non-module TS script, which does have access to the host container. If I add such a e2e-test.ts script to my dagger module folder, it will however have the same Client module without client.host(). And if I put the script into a separate folder with it's own package.json, tsconfig.json, then it won't have access to my module anymore.

Sorry for the long story, but I hope it helps to see where a developer starting today can get lost in the current state of docs, and where some hints or caveats would already help to steer the reader into the right direction.

[median maple]

Thanks for sharing your experience, it’s really helpful to see where you can get lost. Could you please let me know how and where you found the non-module example?

[median maple]

It’s a technical detail but the host method still exists, which is why you see it in the docs. The issue is that it no longer refers to your laptop when you’re running a module but instead the engine itself.

Of course no one is expected to know this out of the gate, I agree having more clarity here would be beneficial. Thank you again for the wonderful feedback.

[median maple]

It’s a technical detail but the host

[smoky raft]

Not entirely sure where I found the old example. When I do a google search for «dagger withNode» this link comes on top and I have visisted it yesterday: https://archive.docs.dagger.io/0.9/sdk/nodejs/783645/get-started/

It does state on the top that these docs are outdated, but it could well be that I have overseen this.

[median maple]

Yeah I noticed this too 😦 -- every time I google things I end up on old archived pages. cc @pallid hearth @carmine oasis @ember hawk not sure if there is anything we can do here from SEO perspective.

[smoky raft]

Probably tricky from a SEO perspective, you don't want to refer the canonical URL of this page to the current version, as there might be legitimate use cases of users searching for old docs. Maybe you could make the warning at the top more prominent. Or convert it to a popup that asks the user if he doesn't want to visit the current version. Store the answer in localStorage, so that it doesn't have to be done each time if I do legitimately want to look at the old docs.

[median maple]

Yeah there will always be ways to read older docs but I think we should have latest docs at least attempt to rank higher in results

[terse roost]

Hi! I’m Craig from Brisbane, Australia. CI/CD pipelines is kind of my bread and butter, but I’ve also got a System/Data Integration background and currently work on a project that has built a lot of bespoke data pipelines (with Lambda). I’m about to jump head first into Dagger in hope to acquire a new skill and work out first hand where it seems to fit. I want to see how much of a reasonably feature-rich CI/CD pipeline I can replace and overhaul for the purpose of learning. Finally, I would love to replace a data pipeline but I am not sure if I’m stretching its intended use! ☺️ This will be fun. Nice to meet you all!

[near storm]

Welcome! Are you starting from an existing CI pipeline that you want to Daggerize, or starting fresh?

Data pipeline could work quite well, it depends on the kind of data. Can you tell me more about the pipeline you have in mind?

[terse roost]

I am open to starting from scratch or re-modelling one that is on GitHub Actions. I was thinking to do the latter although no doubt I will end up simplifying if I hit some gaps in understanding.

I am most interested in the data pipeline use case. I will have AWS IAM in the mix perhaps that increases the challenge a little ! ☺️ but i would start with one short lived job then look at chaining multiple or something like that.

[modest wharf]

Hi, I am Marcus from a small town in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany and new to dagger.

Listened to Solomon speaking about it on two podcasts and got interested.

We're using GitHub Actions with the usual YAML mess and I am intrigued on using actual code. Same reason I like Pulumi more than Terraform.

Code over DSL!

[modest wharf]

And why is there no swag? 🤪❤️

[nimble vine]

Hi, I am chris 👋 I am an enthusiastic continuous everything (CX) engineer 💻 @bsh-group and love to make developers' lives easier to improve quality of life at home 🏡. I live in 🇪🇺, 🇩🇪, 🥨. I’m also a Carpenter 🪚, Bricklayer 🧱, Joiner 🪵 and gardening 🧑‍🌾🌳 enthusiast and love creating thinks with my hands 👐.

i played around with dagger one year before but sadly i dont understand the benfit🫣 now i understand the benefit of dagger functions after the great webinar from @near storm @arun gupta🤗

[sly moth]

Hello, everyone. I am currently jumping in with both feet, trying to migrate a lot of GitLab workflows over to Dagger with the aim of doing some talks back to my parent company. I think the penny dropped a couple of days ago, and I feel like I can write Dagger modules to an OK standard now. I can't wait to see how Dagger evolves in future!

[vagrant talon]

Hi, I am David from France; I'm a an SRE and new to dagger

[unreal lava]

Nice @sly moth!!!

[unreal lava]

Welcome David!! Happy to have you here!

[sinful leaf]

Hello, I am Marco; SRE in NYC.

[unreal lava]

Welcome @sinful leaf!

[karmic swallow]

Hi Comradin! Are you looking for a swag shop where you can get a Dagger t-shirt, for example? cc @fallen cliff

[modest wharf]

Exactly, that would be a cool way to support you. Even if a company would not go for the team plan. I guess

[median maple]

Hello, everyone. I am currently jumping

[median maple]

Welcome! I'll be in NYC next week 😎

[willow gulch]

Hello everyone. I am Rohan Cloud Operations Engineer from India and new to Dagger. Thank you!

[near storm]

Welcome Rohan!

[past shale]

greetings all, i'm an oss dev using Dagger in a big java app. i'm here because googling for answers returns super Android specific advice. I'm looking for more vanilla Java usage.

[near storm]

Wrong dagger 🙂 This is the discord for dagger.io , the programmable CI/CD framework.

[past shale]

ahhhhhhhh google got me again.

[near storm]

You're looking for https://github.com/google/dagger

[dense walrus]

you're still welcome here though!

[near storm]

Yes 🙂

[past shale]

yes I am! thank you.

[dense walrus]

we might not be that helpful, though 😄

at least for android questions

we do have a java sdk for dagger.io though 🎉

[strange dagger]

Hi everyone , my name us Antony Savio and looking to learn more about dagger and its various usages

[near storm]

Welcome Antony! Do you have messy scripts in your project that you're looking to simplify?

[abstract atlas]

Hello everyone! I'm Ayush from India, and I'm new to the Dagger Discord community. I've heard great things about Dagger and I'm eager to learn more about it! If anyone has any tips for a beginner like me, I'd greatly appreciate it! Thanks for having me!

[median maple]

Hello everyone! I'm Ayush from India,

[grim arch]

Hello! I'm a full-stack web developer based in Iowa City, Iowa in the US. I came here seeking the answer to a question.

I recently heard about Dagger, and it sounds really useful (to me, mainly from the standpoint of being able to test/debug pipeline code locally, rather than repeatedly making "Trying to fix the issue" commits and hoping it works), and I'm thinking of trying it out. I brought it up in my work Slack to see if anyone has heard of it or has opinions about it.

One colleague replied and said that while they hadn't heard of it, they see it as "a solved problem: Kubernetes + Tekton". And they said with that, "You can run locally EXACTLY what is going to run in production. Anything less than that, doesn't seem to be worth it."

I've tried looking into what the differences are between how Dagger and Tekton work, but I'm having trouble wrapping my head around it. I'm wondering if anyone could shed some light on pros/cons between them and when one might choose one over the other? Are they indeed solving the same problem, or is my colleague mistaken?

[hasty isle]

@grim arch - I'd say, Dagger isn't yet completely covering everything Tekton does - especially not from a k8s perspective. Currently and as I see Dagger, it is a lot like Tekton's Tasks and Pipelines. The huge difference being, as you noted above, is the ability to write code instead of configuration. So being able to create the tasks and any other code you wish to have to run around those tasks in an imperative instead of a declarative way. If you watch this video of how Dagger is being used with Argo Workflows, you'll see where Dagger fits in and could also work with Tekton.

Just an example of the simplification of Dagger. This is the example of how to build and push an image with Tekton.

https://tekton.dev/docs/how-to-guides/kaniko-build-push/

This is my new to me and probably nooby, but successfully running, code, to do the same with Dagger:

func (m *ZeusCi) Publish(
    ctx context.Context,
    directory *Directory,
    imageName string,
    address string,
    username string,
    token *Secret) (string, error) {
    return m.BuildImage(ctx, imageName, directory).WithRegistryAuth(address, username, token).Publish(ctx, address)
}

Yup. It's one line of code. How cool is that? 🤩

Daggerverse is like Tekton's Catalog Hub.

I hope that puts Dagger into perspective for you now. 🙂

This is also my current and granted nooby understanding of how I want and can use Dagger. It might be able to do more and I do believe from being in the community here and reading what Solomon and the team here allude to, there are plans to have it do a lot more. And remember too, anything you can run in a container, you can run in Dagger, so not just CI/CD things necessarily. 🙂

[grim arch]

Thanks for the info, @hasty isle! I actually also just went through the Dagger quickstart and https://docs.dagger.io/guides/457482/create-app-ci-module, and I was really impressed by the simplicity of the pipeline code in that guide. Being able to pass around things like containers and directories is a really neat concept that seems like it will simplify things a lot.

So this is my current understanding (correct me if I'm wrong):

• Dagger and Tekton can both define pipeline code in a way that is portable - so it can be run on any of several different CI platforms, and also locally.
• Tekton requires Kubernetes in order to run, while Dagger only requires a container runtime.
• Writing/reading pipeline code in Dagger is much simpler than in Tekton.
• Dagger currently covers a subset of what Tekton does, so depending on the use case, Tekton may be a better choice for some.

[hasty isle]

That sounds correct to me.

[hasty isle]

@grim arch - Check this Use Dagger with Tekton guide out (old docs, but still relevant, I believe).

[dark delta]

Hi everyone, my name is Kunal Verma & I've just joined the community!
Looking forward to learning more about Dagger and using it in my project & even contributing one day!

[strange dagger]

Hi @near storm , I would say somewhat messy in that some of it tries to handle various use cases in the pipeline. I am trying to figure out ways by which I can integrate or replace pipelines with dagger

[fresh sail]

hello, I'm a devops guy. I do apps and infra and have been into automation in infra for some time. I never really thought pipelines worked in yaml, being declartative by my way of thinking. I sort of liked jenkins with groovy as much as you can like groovy but gravitate to go as a language but am pragmatic about what I need to program in to achieve a given goal so am not opinionated or precicial in my decision to write in javascript, typescript, python, dart with flutter, php with laravel - all of which I have been working on and with recently

I agree with the idea that pipelines should be expressed as code, as can infra but pipelines are directional are they not ? that is, they tend to have a beginning, a middle and an end. Perhaps an over exageration but call me simple minded. I like to keep things simple where ever I can.

I've been using containers for some time and in doing so have combined docker run commands with the shell to accomplish container based cli solutions to problems I have and dagger seems to do something very similar. I saw a video on youtube by Victor so got interested from there

thats kind of me in a nutshell

[dense walrus]

heya jon! nice to meet you!
r.e. your point about directional pipelines, definitely, I think we're all on the same page about that. Dagger's data model is just that, a Directed-Acyclic-Graph (dag -> dagger 🎉). When you write your pipeline as code, the engine transforms your code into this graph model, and then smartly evaluates it, ensuring consistency, caching, etc.
So while the language you're writing the pipeline in is fully procedural, the data model it's evaluated by is fully declarative - if you're familiar with infra tooling, the model here is roughly similar to what pulumi does.

[fresh sail]

yes, interesting what you say about pulumi, which I read a bit of negative review of out there on the interwebs which I thought a bit harsh but I coulnd see in my own mind how pulumi could support all the things. Dagger however uses containers so this permits for a sort of interface between cli and cotainer is environment variables, secrets and volumes of some sort. Then within the container itself, be it go, python, js, whatever - so long as the sdk with dagger is fit for purpose to deliver all its goodness to that underlying container, happy days. This is the point at which I find myself evaluating this approach. I can see that I have already evertything that go can do in the above context, therefore I already have a use case. I was quite excited to see what dagger can do, recently I saw a demo from one of your people showing how compose and docke run commands can be entirely replaced by dagger - wow, not seen that one coming. But as pure pipelines, well I already saw that as a use case.

as for the declarative nature of daggers internals, I am interested to learn more. Puppet, chef, salt and more recently terraform I have used each have their own idea of 'state' so if dagger can do that too, that's another shiny thing I need to look at. You surprised me saying that - at this point in my understanding I knew nothing of that even as a possibility !

[dense walrus]

so the internal graph representation can be queried using the low-level graphql api: https://archive.docs.dagger.io/0.9/api/975146/concepts/
but even more internally, we're actually built off of buildkit (the same technology that powers docker build, and we use the llb from that as our intermediate representation)

[fresh sail]

ineresting stuff this, the graphql interface can go so far to providing a general purpose access to anthing from anything that can do http / graphql, yeah, get that so will look at that also,

btw I get Callback URL mismatch.
The provided redirect_uri is not in the list of allowed callback URLs.
Please go to the Application Settings page and make sure you are sending a valid callback url from your application.

I've just created a login in dagger cloud so mebe that is still provisioning so the above from the docs pages mebe doesnt know about me yet - I'll try that again later

[dim mortar]

hi

[ripe wing]

@grim arch in addition to what Scott is mentioning, another important differentiator is the DX around how to compose and build these pipelines. Tekton is a tool designed mostly devops / cluster operators is it requires non-trivial k8s understanding in order to set it up and get it running correctly. You can definitely put up some tooling to do this automatically for your developer teams, but translating all the complexity to them doesn't come for free.

Dagger on the other hand tackles this problematic from a different angle by allowing both dev and devops engineers to define these pipelines in they favorite language and run them in any existing compute runtime (github actions, tekton, circle ci, gitlab ci, azure devops, etc).

One small correction about your comment here: #intros message. Dagger doesn't require a container runtime to run, Dagger has its own runtime on its engine (which is the same runtime docker, and k8s uses). So you can run Dagger in any capable environment that's able to run linux containers basically.

LMK if that helps and if you have more questions 🙏

[ripe wing]

hey! Welcome 👋

[grim arch]

Good to know - thanks! That explains why I didn't understand the Tekton documentation. 😅 (I don't have experience with Kubernetes.)

[ripe wing]

and that's a good answer to your colleague's comment about "being a solved problem" 😛

[grim arch]

Regarding the container runtime requirement, I got that info from https://docs.dagger.io/quickstart, which says:

Note that Dagger requires a container runtime. This can be Docker, but you can also use Podman, nerdctl, or other Docker-like systems.

[ripe wing]

that's to follow the quickstart in your local machine

Dagger uses a container runtime as a convencience way to start our engine

if you have docker installed, after you run your first pipeline, if you do a docker ps, you'll see that the Dagger engine is running. This engine can be provisioned in multiple ways, but mostly for DX purposes, we leverage on existing container runtimes installed on the user's system.

The component that handles the container creations of your pipelines is our engine, not the container runtime in your system

[grim arch]

I did happen to run docker ps and saw the Dagger CLI had created a container! So you're saying the Dagger engine would still be able to run even if I didn't have Docker or another container runtime installed?

[ripe wing]

if you don't have a container runtime installed, you need to start the engine manually. But yes, you can still start it manually and run your pipelines

[grim arch]

How do you start it manually? I don't remember coming across that in the documentation.

[grim arch]

Also, it might be helpful to clarify this text on the quickstart page.

[ripe wing]

it's not documented it since it's not straightforward and requires some manual config changes. We recommend using any container runtime if possible given that our docker image already has everything needed for the engine to start correctly

[grim arch]

Ah, ok, that makes sense. I suppose it would be a lot harder too if you're on Windows or macOS instead of Linux.

[ripe wing]

yes, exactly. Having a docker image allows us standardize the way to handle that 🙌

[grim arch]

@fresh sail On a related note, as I read through https://docs.dagger.io/guides/457482/create-app-ci-module/ the other day, I found myself wondering if, instead of writing Dockerfiles (to specify the containers needed to build and run projects) and Compose files (to define environments for running projects locally), all of that can be specified more concisely and run more easily via Dagger functions. 🤔

[hasty isle]

But, the Dagger internal containerd will only run on Linux, right? 🙂

[ripe wing]

yes, basically what I mentioned above:

So you can run Dagger in any capable environment that's able to run linux containers basically. #intros message

[formal valley]

Hello, I'm a DevSecOps team lead and I'm always interested to evaluate tools covering cicd and specially to cover properly the developer journey

[hasty tiger]

Hello, i'm Samir. Support enginner at Qdrant and here to check what is Dagger

[hazy badge]

Hi my name is William and I'm a student, I'm looking to learn CI/CD for the first time with Dagger, I mainly work in go and java and a little bit in python.

[tough sedge]

Hello All. My name is Felipe and I’ve been interested in the container ecosystem for a while. A love the idea of Docker, Dev Containers and now Dagger. Although not a specialist in any of them, I find myself diving deeper and deeper to understand it and make my work flow better.

[novel escarp]

Hello everybody, I'm Jose Alvarez, I ve been around here and messing a bit with dagger for some time but didn't introduce myself in here. I am interested in almost everything IT related 🙂

[willow marsh]

Hello all, I'm Alex and i've been working as a devops/data eng position for a few years. I heard about dagger at the last Kubecon in Paris and i'm here to try it 🙂

[radiant kayak]

Welcome, @tough sedge , @willow marsh , and @novel escarp !!

[weary sierra]

Hello, I am Rwema, from Kigali, Rwanda. I am a freelancer and have been running CICD with argo workflow. I discovered Dagger a few weeks ago and I am learning to migrate some shell scripts to Dagger

[dense walrus]

nice nice! let us know if you hit any problems @weary sierra, happy to help out!

[radiant kayak]

Welcome, @weary sierra !

@polar flume and @unreal lava have both worked with Argo and Dagger. Here's a demo Matias gave recently about one of Dagger's use cases with Argo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9AfESKVmZA

And here's a video Kyle made about 6 months ago for Argo Workflows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysI86z0izHE

@polar flume is that video still current or do we need to redo it since we have modules now?

[weary sierra]

thank you for welcoming me, I am getting help from @ripe wing and making good progress https://discord.com/channels/707636530424053791/1229798907362414673

[last verge]

Hi, I'm Tobias and today I finally had time to look at Dagger. For years I have been unhappy with current build pipelines and have brainstormed various alternatives, especially around building pre-push. I guess I wasn't alone with these thoughts. Dagger looks really nice.

[near storm]

You've come to the right place 🙂

[gentle citrus]

Hello, I'm Eric and am kicking the tires on Dagger for a work related project. I am trying to solve for the GitHub Codespaces / Laptop / GitHub Actions reproducibility and development ergonomics challenges trying to run something in all three can introduce. Have enjoyed working with Dagger for the past week but am bumping into some issues getting Actions to run my workflows, I'm using the Go SDK

[candid canopy]

Hello everyone, my name is Bruno and I'm from Portugal. I have been a C# developer for 5 years and during the last year, I mainly work as a DevOps in Azure DevOps.
Out of nowhere, Dagger popped up during a research in Stackoverflow for a bug. Dagger caught my eye and now I want to learn and contribute by using the tools and probably giving any feedback! Stay groovy

[median maple]

Welcome, thanks for joining us!

[karmic swallow]

Hello, I'm Eric and am kicking the tires

[hidden sparrow]

👋 hello! I'm Scott. Seasoned DevOps engineer, mostly working in the startup saas space, started playing with Dagger recently. I share much of the same sentiment as others above. I'm excited about the potential and direction here!

I'm attending OSS Summit NA this week and was hoping that there would be some Dagger representation.

[radiant kayak]

@karmic swallow was at the OSS Summit earlier this week. We had a Dagger session with Chainguard and Pulumi on Tuesday. Sorry we missed you!!

[hidden sparrow]

Oh bummer! Do you remember the title of the talk? I'll be sure to check it out

[rugged canopy]

Hi my name is Frank. I am a Platform Engineer working in Berlin and looking into Dagger after couple of years again and huge progress. Here to learn and share experiences. Have a nice day.

[ripe wing]

great to have you on board Frank. Any particular ideas or use cases you're thinking of using dagger for? We're around if you need any inputs from us

[atomic mauve]

Hey all! I think I was in the community before, unsure if I removed myself or what. o/ I still haven't used Dagger in a major way, but keep thinking about it every time I run into Gitlab CI edge cases and coDiNg iN yAMl weirdness. I'm a devops/cloud/platform/whatever engineer and serial hat wearer working remote and semi-nomadically for a fabulous team at a fintech. Glad to be back again!

[near storm]

welcome back 😁

[karmic swallow]

Oh bummer! Do you remember the title of

[humble swallow]

Hi, I'm David, a DevOps and Software Engineer working in Paris.

[radiant kayak]

Hey! There's some new stuff to check out: Dagger Functions and modules. https://docs.dagger.io/quickstart

[fresh nova]

Hey, I am Bedilbek and I am a Technical Director at Tezzro

[atomic mauve]

Thanks! I already dove back in and wrote my first 3 functions, replicating the work some other yaml hell pipelines are doing right now 👍

[median maple]

Welcome! Thanks for joining us

[lapis quarry]

Hello, Im Tobias and work as Software Developer since 14 years. My main languages are: java, javascript, typescript, shell. I often the one who does the CI / CD stuff next to the work of a Fullstack Developer. In few weeks I start as a employee at Adesso (adesso.de). I speak english and german.

[sand steeple]

Hey, My name is Paul, I’m a French ( 🥖) young engineer doing an apprenticechip in IT development, and sometimes I do devops task.
I heard about dagger 2 days ago and I’m trying to understand the concept and how to implement it

[median maple]

Welcome! Check out the quick start guide and don’t hesitate to reach out here if you run into any questions. https://docs.dagger.io/quickstart

[atomic mauve]

Hey, My name is Paul, I’m a French ( 🥖

[severe radish]

Hi Dagger Community, my name is Fran and I'm a developer/build engineer from Zagreb. Mostly I'm working with kotlin/gradle/jenkins trying to improve build speed for our internal developers. I heard about you in Paris at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon a month ago. My team and me find it very interesting what dagger has to offer so now I'm here trying things out and thrilled to be a part of this community!

[red owl]

Hello fellow daggerians ! Just wanted to say to hi ! Came across dagger and kubecon in Paris and was blown away !!sucks that work blocks discord 😦

[near storm]

Welcome! And sorry about Discord being blocked... You're not the only one.

If we embedded a discord client in a webapp hosted on https://dagger.cloud, would you find it useful?

[red owl]

Don't be sorry mate !
That would be awesome, thank you !!

[small yacht]

Hallo, I am orring. Currently I am working as DevOps Engineer at a german Consulting

[open nexus]

Hi all! I'm Alisdair, working with Koyeb! Happy to be here 🙂

[radiant kayak]

Welcome @small yacht and @open nexus 😄

[radiant kayak]

I think you've already started getting some answers. The #1030538312508776540 forum is a great place to get answers. 😄

[solemn fable]

Hey folks! I'm cloud engineer working in gaming that is evaluating Dagger as a good replacement for some on perm ad-hoc builds that we're currently managing with some nastsy Python scripts. I'm based in SE US and appreciate all the help the crew had supplied to my dumb arse thus far! Excited to be here! 👋

[ripe wing]

Hey! Welcome! You're in the right place. Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions

[acoustic bolt]

Hey Everyone
I am from amsterdam, netherlands
I am backend engineer, we are using dagger in ci/cd
i have few queries regarding how to get dagger application logs to file, so that we can ship it to centralized logging server
i see one way is to use sdk but i am looking more into out of box configuration where docker container running engine pickup not only stderr logs from but also stdout logs,
appreciate the help 🙂

[hasty isle]

@acoustic bolt - You'll more than likely get a better support, if you put in a question in the #1030538312508776540 forum with your detailed problem/ challenge.

[silver dagger]

Hi all.
I'm a Software Engineer based in London, UK.
We've been looking at dagger for our next iteration of CI (migrating away from Jenkins into GH Actions) and have plans for dagger to play a central role in our system.
You'll be hearing PLENTY of questions from me 🙂

I've been lurking some of the channels and already found valuable info!

[dense walrus]

Heya! Nice to see UK-based folks around, I'm based in Birmingham myself 🎉

[lament sundial]

Hi all,
am from Prague,
in Czech Republic, 1 year python backend developer and before it QA (Software tester -Integration, automatization)
so, I firstly tested grafical things for learning on childrens...
And they love it 😉

nowadays I want to rewrite our pipelines and ruff/trivy scans withouth config files such a yml, yaml, dockerfile, taskfile
Wish me luck, please 🙂

[thorn roost]

Hi I’m a software engineer based in Northern Ireland. Been building software for about 25 years. Worked every ci system under the sun. Looking for something better than yaml soup. Particular interest in building windows containers and running dagger on windows systems).

[median maple]

Welcome! FYI Dagger does work on windows, and we have a lot of folks building various things in dotnet but sadly there is not yet any support for windows containers. This is because we’re using buildkit under the hood and that does not yet support windows containers natively.

[devout atlas]

Hello. I have been working as a developer in South Korea for 6 years. I have been interested in Dagger for a long time and have been actively trying to use it since the release of Dagger Functions. I published some modules necessary for my use case in the Daggerverse, and it was a good experience. I am looking forward to the future development of Dagger.

[karmic swallow]

Hello. I have been working as a

[bold summit]

Hello, just a devops enthusiast testing new things !

[ripe wing]

welcome! we're all testing new things 😅

[frosty nebula]

Hi everyone ,
I am Sherifdeen from Nigeria, am excited to be here. I am looking forward to collaborating with you all.

[ripe wing]

Welcome Sherifdeen!

[solar crater]

hi folks! I'm Daniel, a 🇧🇷 living in 🇦🇷 , currently working with OpenTelemetry and the Tracetest project (https://tracetest.io/), looking at how we can use Dagger to simplify our CI pipelines and even a module in the future for Tracetest in Daggerverse!

[ripe wing]

hey Dani! it's great to see you here! let us know if you need any help with the Dagger <> Tracetest module. If you already have a repo that you're working on, happy to contriubte 🙌

[solar crater]

hey Dani! it's great to see you here!

[stuck mango]

Hi, I'm Hunter, and I'm currently using dagger and go to convert the moodle-ci project from a github actions and travis-ci exclusive project to a dagger pipeline that can be run locally.
Looking forward to using dagger everywhere I can

[karmic swallow]

Hi, I'm Hunter, and I'm currently using

[sharp violet]

Greetings, I am Peter and I have start doing devops now in the company to try and optimize the delivery of our products, we work in the security space. happy to try this out! going full dagger.

[tawdry siren]

Hi, I'm Antoine and I'm starting a POC with Dagger 🙂 We would like to reduce boilerplate of our CI/CD and make it more scalable

[thick hull]

Hi, I am Prashant and currently working in DevOps domain. Currently me and my team in our organization exploring dagger.
As I am looking forward to run gitlab CICD pipeline on local machine using dagger function

[rigid leaf]

Hello folks, new here! I'm platform engineer located in México, joining the cummunity since I've the missing to create a local ci strategy for my current company so looking forward to learn and collaborate with all of you! 🙌

[median maple]

Hello folks, new here! I'm platform

[glossy ferry]

Hi there! I'm Holger from 🇩🇪 I'm working as a DevOps and like to try new things 😉 Maybe dagger can help to streamline our developer self-service tooling

[storm quartz]

Hi all!I 'm from Seattle Washington, working as a product manager at Snowflake - on tools like how you can run container in Snowflake. Dagger looks like an amazing tool for modern data and app workflows

[near storm]

Welcome 🙂 Can't wait to see what you daggerize 🤘

[random echo]

Welcome Jeff!

[autumn chasm]

Hi

[thorn roost]

Thanks Lev, yes I got it working and kicked the tyres, seems great. Working on a plan to get our old dotnet framework stuff running under wine on Linux containers… docker windows container support is a pain anyway as you can’t run windows and Linux containers together, have to toggle between them.

[static summit]

Hey all, I've mostly been a .NET / C# developer for the past 12-15 years but ive dabbled in other languages, learning Golang quite recently and am actively using K8s, Gitlab, Powershell. I work for a rather large corporate company, utilising various products, Snowflake and many more cloud solutions, they have big aims to move and centralise solutions and source control across the portfolio of various independant company brands within the corporate org. I was hoping I could learn dagger enough to convince others within the org for us to try out dagger, instead of always rewriting pipelines over and over and over from teamcity, gitlab to now github actions.

[flint dirge]

Hello everyone, my name is Grégory from France. I work as an SRE / DevOps. In my case, Dagger.io is used to realize a POC to be presented to my colleagues.

[median maple]

Hey all, I've mostly been a .NET / C#

Hello everyone, my name is Grégory from

[quartz shell]

hi my name is Hooman. I am softawre engineer focused on cloud infra, backend api design and distributed system design. I would love to contribute to open source SDK. Any python projects?

[rain lantern]

Hi, my name is Kevin. I work as a CloudOps/SRE/DevOps based in Squamish, BC, Canada. I am interested in Dagger to see if it can help my team and possibly the rest of the organization with pain points in our pipelines.

[median maple]

Hi, my name is Kevin. I work as a

[pallid hearth]

Python projects

[undone tiger]

Hi, I'm Prasanth working in Devops COE Japan. I am new to Dagger and I have given task to integrate Dagger with Jenkins. But I'm stuck up at a point where any Dagger command I run keeps waiting forDagger engine and gets timeout after around 10 mins and I have no clue why. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance

[median maple]

Hi, I'm Prasanth working in Devops COE

[oblique knot]

hey! im gt, i work in platform eng in nyc. 👋

[north fox]

Hello I am Drexl a Full-stack Developer and happy to be here.

[near storm]

Welcome welcome!

[slender wave]

Hi, I am an experienced developper in Python and Nextjs (also devops) and I am curious about how dagger works

[median maple]

Hi, I am an experienced developper in

[waxen vortex]

Hi

[ripe wing]

Welcome!

[tardy mesa]

Hi all, I'm the Lead Engineer of Developer Relations at the LEGO Group and I'm so curious how Dagger might fit into our pipelines here. We'd like more visibility into build and tests to identify where we can save time. I'm personally curious in giving developers an inner loop they can run before they "push and pray".

[dense walrus]

Heya! nice to meet you 🎉 have you had the chance to play with dagger at all yet? curious what your initial thoughts are!

[tardy mesa]

I have, when I was at my previous company. At the time the Dagger SaaS offering had only just launched. Haven't since but I remember my experience fondly!

[sharp widget]

👋 I'm a DevOps and Platform Engineering practitioner/architect. Always had a love/hate relationship with CI/CD pipelines until I started using dagger and realized that pipelines can be treated as software development. I wrote about my adventures in a recent blog (https://piotrzan.medium.com/why-is-building-pipelines-different-from-software-development-13ebd479edc4)

[median maple]

Hi all, I'm the Lead Engineer of

[median maple]

This is so cool, thanks for writing about us 🙂

[bronze bloom]

Hi all! @near storm speaks my language, and in a recent interview said this was the place to be “so here I am”. Going to pick up dagger for my next project. Looking forward to learning and meeting everyone!

[near storm]

welcome, and thanks for listening 🙂 Out of curiosity which interview were you listening to?

[bronze bloom]

I guess recent as of 2 months ago 🤦‍♂️ https://youtu.be/z_AbI2PgXEU?si=01s0XyHdpFhnq9ii

This is gold:

“You have to be aware of what the Giants in the industry care about and which way they’re going, so that if there are big waves you’re surfing them and not trying to swim against them.”

[radiant ore]

Hi Y'all.... I am glad to have found this project inspiring for platform engineering and I wish to integrate it to my Saas soon...

[civic wraith]

Hello, having fun with nix and kubernetes at home, and very glad to have found dagger \o/

[rustic ingot]

Hello I'm AbdulLateef, I'm the DevOps Lead at Rodnav, and so glad to be here. I'm very much interested in the CD side of dagger. I've seen quite a lot of CI on the internet but struggling to find resources on the deployments side of things especially cloud based deployments. Any friendly soul to be my host? 👋

[median maple]

Hello I'm AbdulLateef, I'm the DevOps

[pallid hearth]

Why is Building Pipelines Different from...

[austere meadow]

Hello, I'm new to Dagger. I'm hoping to learn enough to leverage Dagger to improve CI and CD for my team. 👋🏽

[mortal silo]

Hi everyone, I just (finally) went through the Dagger tutorial, and wow, this changes everything.

My name is Nacho, and I'm an OSS maintainer, Nx champion, and Lead Engineer at Aster.

[ripe wing]

Welcome Nacho! Curious to know what your ideas for Dagger are. We're here if you have any questions or need any help!

[mortal silo]

Dagger is amazing. I heard about it a long time ago, but at the moment, it didn't click for me. Maybe because the docs are improved or because I gave it a real try, but this time, it really clicked.

I will use it at work to set up the testing environment for the e2e test using a local DB. Without Dagger, it would be painful; with Dagger, I'm looking forward to trying that out.

I have posted a question already. Thanks!

[crystal lark]

Hi everyone,

I just watched Solomon's interview about Dagger and completely share the same opinion.

My name is Nafaa, and I'm a Program Manager and Tech Lead.

[fervent crane]

Hi I am Florian from Zitadel.

I am defenitly dreaming of a CI system that one could test easlie locally 😉

[ember hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/beer-time-gif-11946345257823808929

Welcome Florian! Here's to you achieving your dream sooner than you might have thought....

[plush crystal]

Hi Im Vishnu from Coimbatore
CI as code and CI on local brought me here

[near storm]

https://tenor.com/view/you've-come-to-the-right-place-luci-eric-andre-disenchantment-you're-in-the-proper-place-gif-12033484193044419611

[rustic ingot]

Welcome👍

[rustic ingot]

here's the home of such.

[old swift]

👋 hello to all newcomers 🙂

[daring field]

Hi folks! I’m Maarten from HackerOne. I’m coming here to investigate Dagger as a potential alternative to Bazel for one of our repositories.

Using a build system like Bazel I’m able to run all the tests within the monorepo local or in the CI using bazel test //…. Is it possible to achieve something similar with Dagger? Combing all the test functions from multiple projects into a single function call? Or is this a bad practice in a mono repo?

[frank reef]

Altijd leuk, meer Nederlanders 😃

[icy kite]

Hi folks, I'm Kumar living in California. Currently working on getting Azure DevOps builds running on Scalesets to run on WIndows containers. Looking at Dagger to simplify our pipelines (currently a nightmare) and also see whether WIndows Containers would be supported (huge deal for us)

[dense walrus]

heya welcome @icy kite 🎉
just gonna x-link my response from here: #1242180731548209293 message

Yeah windows containers absolutely will not just work - the support is still super experimental in buildkit, and we have a lot of custom stuff on top, in particular networking, an init system, linux namespace entry, etc, that don't have exact parallels on windows

I'm not ruling out that we'll ever do it, but given the difficulty in making progress in upstream buildkit (which has interest and participation from some more experienced windows folks), I don't think we have capacity right now to work on it 😭

[potent dagger]

Hey, fellow hackers. I am Deniz [deniz]. I am based in Turkiye. I am just a fellow hacker myself :)

The idea of programmability of builds/pipelines amazes me incredibly, and I got started with Dagger just a few days ago. Though it's been just a few days, I must admit I am in love so far. I don't want to touch YAML ever again.

Currently, I am using the Rust SDK, which is also quite nice. Before that, I was playing around with Earthly, which actually led me here. (:

I am also a linguist (undergraduate), which I couldn't resist to tell ("I use arch, btw" among linguists).

I wish you all happy hacking and cheers! \o/

[near storm]

Hoş geldiniz Deniz! It's great to have you here.

[cloud crystal]

so if you are in Istanbul, come to this event where we are gonna talk about Dagger: https://www.meetup.com/dagger-istanbul/

[potent dagger]

I am!

Just checking the photo out they've put up there. Looks like I will be the youngest haha

[cloud crystal]

this is from one of the previous events we had about dagger in Istanbul

definitely we need a new selfie \o/

[safe schooner]

Hej! Stefano here! Very interesting project indeed. Thinking about trying out it out on a monorepo actually 🍕

[near storm]

Welcome Stefano! Keep an eye out for this feature, which should be merged very soon. It will significantly improve support for monorepos. They're already supported today with a few rough edges. It's an incremental improvement so it's fine to start now, then take advantage of the improvements when they ship.

https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/7647

[safe schooner]

Sounds 1337! Which feature r u refearing to?

[near storm]

oops forgot to link the issue! https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/7647

[solemn steeple]

Hi, I am Ahmed Siam, a computer science student at Ain Shams University in Egypt.
I am a Debian Contributor at Salsa CI which is CI pipeline used by Debian package maintainers to test Debian packages before uploading it to the Debian archive.

I am working on decoupling the CI from the scheduler (GitLab pipelines) mainly to enable running the pipeline locally and ease maintenance of it.

I am currently exploring Dagger tool and whether to use it or not for this issue.

I have gone through Dagger quick start and I had a good experience.

Current concerns on my mind about not to use Dagger is that it didn't reach version 1.0.0 yet and the API can break after each minor release which may complicate my project maintenance, I also didn't explore other approaches that may be simpler and good enough for my use case yet.

[near storm]

Welcome Ahmed! I believe @median maple made his first contribution to Salsa 🙂

A few notes on the question of breaking changes... It's true that we occasionally introduce breaking changes, but:

1. they will be caught at build time, so you can catch them before upgrading

2. we just introduced "compat mode" in 0.12, which makes it easier to upgrade your engine without breaking dependencies

3. overall the API is quite stable, breaking changes are generally superficial and fixed by search-replace.

4. Dagger is built around buildkit, the technology powering docker build. So the core runtime of Dagger is very mature.

5. We aim to release 1.0 this year.

[solemn steeple]

Hi solomon!

Thanks for the notes.

Lev has been contributing to Salsa CI recently.
I knew Dagger tool for the first time from the fact that Lev works for Dagger.

[median maple]

Hey @solemn steeple its so good to see you here! I am very happy to work together with you to explore if and how we can use Dagger in SalsaCI, I have a few prototypes in mind already.

One tangential example, I made this module recently that allows you to open up a shell with any salsa repo mounted in a debian container that has all the tools you may need for packaging already there https://salsa.debian.org/levlaz-guest/sid-builder

I've been using it lately to try to debug that pascal issues we're seeing with the lazarus project.

I'm still getting familiar with the pipeline but I think there are a ton of opportunities with Dagger, even if we don't end up using it for the full production run right away, I think giving people the ability to run pipelines locally would be a huge win because right now the iteration cycle is quite painful.

[solemn steeple]

Hi Lev!

Thanks for your interest to help.
I will take this into consideration.

Feel free to share your thoughts and ideas about how we can use Dagger in SalsaCI with the Salsa CI team.
I think the project's issues section is a good place for this.

Hmm, Maybe the mailing list is a better option to reach more people.
I am not sure.

[river turtle]

Greetings! "platform" 🙄 engineer here (hey it's just my title, I didn't pick it!). Based in Glasgow, working in Fintech private markets sector. First saw Dagger demo'd at KubeHuddle Edinburgh, hoping to slay a few CI/CD dragons over the coming months 😄

[pallid hearth]

Hi new Daggernauts! Thank you so much for being part of the community. We are happy to have you here.

We just added a few new Dagger demos that are great for newcomers. Check them out here:

Introduction to Dagger by @karmic swallow - https://youtu.be/Whp86W0afg0

Dagger in Practice by @thorn halo - https://youtu.be/0bHal0URfz8

Dagger beyond CI/CD by @mortal sequoia - https://youtu.be/tXoIpioUCsA

[median maple]

Thanks, I will share my thoughts in the mailing list.

But the main thing I think we should do is start with one of the existing steps and daggerize it to see how it feels.

Ill work on that and propose it to the team.

Is there a particular language (go, python, typescript) that you think would land better than others with the group? I am leaning toward python since that is a common language for tooling throughout the project but would love to hear your feedback.

Greetings! "platform" 🙄 engineer here

[solemn steeple]

Thanks, I will share my thoughts in the

[solid patio]

hey! 👋 building (https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo), invited here by @ripe wing

[cosmic willow]

Hey there I'm Max living the rewarding live of a YAML templating Engineer while providing "it works for 80% of the use cases" Build Images 😉 Dagger really looks like it hits a sweet spot.
Not sure if any HashiCorp Nomad enthusiasts are here (or left 😅 ) but I'm tinkering around with a custom runner that dials to nomad to run dagger functions there

[karmic swallow]

Hey there I'm Max living the rewarding

[vestal whale]

Hello daggernauts! I'm a full-stack software engineer that fell in love with dagger at first sight - you had me at "portable CI". I'm that guy on your team that promotes/preaches open tooling and uses GNU make and sh/bash because of their ubiquity and portability, in lieu of whatever proprietary CI pipeline language/tool du jour is being called for. I have become painfully aware of the barriers to adoption that GNU make has, especially with the generation of developers that came after me, and was quite smitten with dagger and see it as a significant leap forward in tooling for the modern SDLC!

[median maple]

Hello daggernauts! I'm a full-stack

[uncut forum]

Hi there, i discovered dagger earlier this year on kubecon and am now looking into how ik can use it in the real world

[boreal haven]

Hello. I maintain pipelines across multiple hosting platforms. I'm intrigued by the promise of replacing our "artisanal scripts" with a modern API written in our language of choice.

[pallid hearth]

Welcome!

[regal wyvern]

hi I help build platforms our dev teams to manage application development workflow. Looking into dagger to replace complicated systems we have.

[calm pollen]

Hi, I am new to Dagger and want to explore and gain an understanding of:

1. The internals of the Dagger engine and related tools
2. How to build the engine and related tools
3. How to make modifications to the code base
4. Test the modifications

[ripe wing]

hey! Welcome. Our contribution guide is quite comprehensive (https://github.com/dagger/dagger/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) and we use Dagger to build and test Dagger of course! The process should be straightforward. Let us know if you have any questions. #engine-dev is also a good channel to follow if you want to learn more about the internals

[calm pollen]

@ripe wing Thanks! Will go through the docs and will ask questions as I make progress.

[pallid hearth]

Welcome!

[vale merlin]

Hello ! Guess I could have introduced myself before asking for help 😄 I discovered Dagger when Guillaume de Rouville gave a talk at a Go meetup in Lyon months ago and I'm finally able to look into it ! My use case (for now) is to use it as a more capable docker compose to streamline local development, hopefully that works out.

[median maple]

Docker Compose

[civic stirrup]

Hi! I'm a full stack engineer leading platform engineering at a Denver based fintech startup, and I recently started a project to rebuild our infra in pulumi and our workflows in dagger. So far, dagger is an absolute dream to work with; I can't imagine going back to yaml push and pray. Our dev team is small (10), our stack is golang and I'm working with a mono repo containing ~60 lambda functions across a half dozen domains. I'm thrilled to see such an active and helpful community.

[median maple]

Hey! Welcome, so nice to hear how positive your experience has been so far.

What's one thing you wish Dagger did for you that it doesn't already?

[pallid hearth]

Hi! I'm a full stack engineer leading

[charred shard]

@dense walrus introduced me, Hiya y'all. Looking forward to seeing the future!

[civic stirrup]

Hi Lez! This may be a bit wild, but I'm a gopher so we're well accustomed to wild, right? I wish Dagger let me execute dag-defined code in a container. I realize I can produce a binary with whatever I want, and run that in a container and return a handful of core types, but I dream of:

getThing := func() Thing {
    return Thing{}
}

thing := dag.Container(dagger.ContainerOpts{
    Platform: "linux/arm64",
}).
    From("golang:"+version).
    WithFunc(getThing)

I have a specific use case in mind, but I'm still ideating; I'll share more when it's more concrete.

[near storm]

If you make getThing a Dagger function, you get this for free 🙂

You can have getThing take a container as argument

thing = dag.GetThing(dag.Container().From("golang:"+version))

In the meantime you have thing = dag.Container().From("golang").With(getThing) but thing will be of type Container

[civic stirrup]

Thank you! That got my brain turning and have been implementing my use case. Just ran into a hard blocker: my dagger module needs to work with types from my application go module. I can't have any of the code public, so until https://github.com/dagger/dagger/pull/7708 is released, I'm thinking my only option is to build it with dagger SDK instead of dagger modules/functions with dagger run go run?

[jovial plume]

Heeeelo!
Yea just joining the party to find out what and how and whatever.
A thing that didn't yet jumped me directly in the face is how to run it.
Do I rely on e.g. Gitlab-Runner?
Lets see how I will use it, Maybe it helps around my contant config drifts between Kolla-Ansible OpenStack dev and prod environment.

[orchid oriole]

Hello there. I've heard that this is the place to be 😉 - Trying out dagger with Gitlab CI/CD components. Maybe it will work, maybe not. I am not sure if the "new" CI/CD component in Gitlab and dagger is a good fit. Anyone tried that combo? 🧐

[karmic swallow]

Heeeelo!

[simple willow]

Hey 🙂 Glad to be part of the community. Using dagger heavily for a few weeks now, very cool tech. Got a problem with the bun runtime (which is fixed soon, as you folks bump the base image in https://github.com/dagger/dagger/pull/8237)

[ripe wing]

Welcome! Good to have you around. Let us know whatever we can do to help. Also curious about what's the first thing you're using Dagger for

[simple willow]

I'm replacing all my pipelines (get secrets from infisical, bundle the app & upload it to cloudflare, use the serverless framework to publish a lambda to scaleway, using turso to create databases for preview environments and more to come)

[twilit fable]

Hello I'm from Paris France, developer and trainer and my thing is EdTech.

[young jolt]

Hi from belgium

[ember hawk]

Which part? Flemish or Waloon? Either way, welcome!

[ember hawk]

That's awesome. The day you're ready to come present at our community meetup I'm sure @pallid hearth would love to have you. Until then, don't be shy giving us all your feedback, asking for help etc. I think you'll find this is a super engaged and helpful community!

[young jolt]

Antwerp (Flemish)

[ember hawk]

!

[near storm]

Sweet. Here's my ancestral family coat of arms

[karmic swallow]

The House of S_AI_kes

[simple willow]

Will see what I can contribute to that meetup 🙌

[smoky vale]

hello from SF! I'm a MLE in fintech.

I want to start contributing to dagger's repository and finished the quickstart but so far taking quite a bit of time to figure out which part of the repo should I start contributing, appreciate any guidance 🙂

[drowsy elbow]

Hello, Im from the Netherlands. Looking for a better way to run/create our ci jobs.

[feral warren]

Hey, I'm from Austria (that's in EU not Australia :P). I develop since 22 years my most beloved languages are Go, Python and C++ 🙂

[broken marten]

Hello from Poitiers, France ! I'm Kacy L., I build Abrege and my CI/CD is quite messy so I'm looking around for new tech !

[slate oar]

Hello from Nice, my associate show me this wonderful tech, because i want to abstract all my CI stuff from any git provider or framework. seems to be a very good solution, because i've many Chart/docker image and other stuff to make.
will pock that if the next days, hope it will fit my need 🙂

[unreal lava]

Welcome @slate oar!!

[zealous orchid]

Hello, I am based out of Bangalore, India. Currently exploring Dagger for a Kafka connector.

[dawn pasture]

Hello from us-CA, I was building stuff mostly for MS shops for over 15 years, so heavily in .net/c# territory. Walked the "shell/ps1 scripts ➡️ yaml ➡️ Nuke.Build" path, now looking at Dagger as I like the CI abstraction concept in general and Go implementation in particular, but waiting for windows containers support cause our stuff are currently deeply rooted in Windows (WPF) 🤷🏻‍♂️🫣

[static summit]

though im not currently dependant on WPF or Windows OS based things, i am totally with you on this. My previous team - we did use windows containers actually due to large codebases in .NET Framework that couldn't be ported to .NET Core

[placid shard]

Hey everyone, I'm Philip Co-Founder of Glasskube 👋 Originally I'm from Vienna, Austria, but currently I'm in SF for the current YC batch 🙂 I loving building stuff for kubernetes

[median maple]

Hi! Welcome! Are you at your meetup? If so, I’m here too and will say hi😁

[smoky ember]

Hello everyone. I'm Peter from California by way of Minnesota and originally Wisconsin, USA. I primarily work on Linux OS image build pipelines. We switched from using packer + Jenkins to packer + in-house proprietary orchestration, which is better in some ways and worse in many others. I'm interested in tooling for building modular pipelines of simple reusable components on top of modern environments like kubernetes, akin to the Unix Philosophy with containers.

[silk moth]

Hello, everyone. I am new here.

Hi

[vale fern]

Hello everyone! Just arrived after an invite from @near storm!

[hidden sorrel]

Hello everyone! 👋 I've worked with numerous CI/CD setups and I've always ran into the pain points that Dagger is working to fix. I'm trying it out on one of my open source side projects and I'm really liking what I'm seeing so far. I'm looking forward to learn more

[near storm]

Welcome @smoky ember @silk moth @vale fern @hidden sorrel ! We're here to help if you have any questions.

[wooden torrent]

Hello people! Sharing, learning and having fun from each other will always be a 100% win situation for everyone 😊that is I’m here looking forward to getting involved in this journey with all of you! Have a nice one folks 👊🏽😊

[silk moth]

Hi

[ripe wing]

Hello!

[brisk oriole]

Hi

[median vine]

Hello!!

[ripe sentinel]

Hi everyone. I'm excited to learn some Dagger!

[median maple]

Welcome! What are you working on? 🙂

[ripe sentinel]

I've got a few Python microservices running fastapi in a cluster. Hoping Dagger can help me reduce my devops nightmare

[median maple]

Sounds like youre in the right place, be sure to join us in #python as well if you run into any issues on your journey. Happy to help with anything!

[median maple]

Oops just notied you already found that 😄

[ripe sentinel]

no worries, yes, have already needed some help quickly moving forward 😉

[fading yew]

Hello 👋 this all sounds very exciting.

For a while we've been wanting github actions to do more and shift over docker builds and helm deployments from a Jenkins box. I sense Dagger being very helpful in this!

[median maple]

Welcome! Yes you found the right place 😄

[ripe wing]

Welcome Mark! There's some cool demos in the #1075928318802657340 channel about using Dagger to orchestrate helm deployments. After going through the quickstart that'd be the place I'd suggest to check out for ideas. We're also around in case you have any specific questions

[frozen pulsar]

Hello there I’m keen to see if the rust sdk can be used like the go sdk

[static summit]

hey. I believe the status of the rust sdk is that it doesn't work quite the same as the go sdk because of module and function support. it may still be enough to suit your case, I would certainly suggest you to checkout and ask in #rust

[thorn roost]

aan de werf

[rare fern]

Hi!

[shut spindle]

huhu

[frosty raft]

👋 Hello everyone. worked with CI/CD pipelines for last 20 years, learning dagger now and finding it really nice.

[surreal prairie]

👋 hello everybody! I'm the newest member of the dagger team, contributing to the engine amongst other things. Before Dagger, I'd been working at Brex for the last ~3 years, working on all sort of platform-y systems including preview environments, asset storage, search, bazel, and more. Before Brex, I was working on Cloudfoundry. looking forward to shipping y'all some crazy platform power!

[ember hawk]

Welcome! Given your wealth of experience with CI/CD - would love to hear what you like but also what you feel is missing! We're always looking to learn. BTW what CI/CD platforms have you used? Mainly Jenkins or a wide variety?

[crystal crest]

👋 hello! I'm an open source contributor in the Kubernetes and CI/CD spaces (Tekton, Shipwright, Jenkins, and OpenShift). Heard about Dagger from a recent Kubernetes podcast episode that Solomon did, and wanted to come check out what the project is all about!

[median maple]

Welcome! Thanks for joining us 🙂

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! We’d love to hear your thoughts on our QuickStart experience—your fresh perspective is invaluable! Check it out here: https://docs.dagger.io/quickstart

Feel free to send me a DM with your feedback or share it in the general channel. We’re always looking to improve, and your input makes a difference!

[neon elm]

hello 👋 I'm exploring Dagger to replace our existing GitLab pipeline. Looking forward to see all the cool things we can do with this

[random shore]

Hello  👋

It's exciting to learn more about Dagger and see a thriving community such as this one!

[median maple]

welcome! what are you working on these days?

[random shore]

Right now, I'm trying to build an experimental message queue with BEAM through Elixir and see if I can build a lightweight message queue that's friendly for devs 🙂

[wise talon]

Hey there, I'm Peter Banka. I work at Fastly. I'm trying to get my head around dagger. I have a few projects I'm excited to try it out with.

[near storm]

Welcome Peter! Thanks for joining. Let us know how the experiments go, we're here to help.

[tough charm]

hello! working as a platform engineer at an iron ore mine, testing dagger currently in my homelab but might be very useful for $DAYJOB

[median maple]

Welcome! That sound really interesting 🙂 Let us know if we can help with anything

[ember hawk]

@near storm often talks about Dagger helping our users build high velocity software factories...but helping automate an Iron Ore mine gives me gooseebumps. Super cool!!!

[tough charm]

we do a lot of stuff at my company, we are approx 2 km underground and are working on getting even lower. above ground we are relocating a large parts of a city due to movements in the ground, we moved one of the oldest wooden buildings in the old city center earlier today. lots of interesting stuff!

(also there's a satellite launch site nearby, and an hotel made out of ice since this is in the sub-arctics)

[ember hawk]

Talk about living the dream!

[patent topaz]

Hi there! I am Alwin Doss.

I am new to Dagger and exploring ways in which I could introduce it in my organization.

[ripe wing]

Welcome Alwin! Don't hold back on sharing what's on your mind so we can help you by sharing our experience on how to make the most out of Dagger in PoCs and early adoptions.

We're around if you have any questions!

[patent topaz]

Thank you @ripe wing

[pallid hearth]

Here are some case studies and links to OS repos that are using us.

Many of these users are on our Discord, so I am happy to make intros if you need any additional advice on how to get started.

https://dagger.io/resources/Case-Studies
https://dagger.io/daggerized-projects
https://docs.dagger.io/adopting

[tough sedge]

Ow, what one has to do to work in a place like that? I used to work on ships and people always got very curious about it but yours is definitely different

[tough charm]

Ow, what one has to do to work in a

[limpid harbor]

Hey all, myself and our team are looking in using Dagger. Hopefully it is a good fit for our organization!

[median maple]

Welcome!

What is the main problem you're hoping to solve with Dagger?

[limpid harbor]

Thanks, and creating more reusable and more structured pipelines. We are using both Jenkins and Gitlab CICD at the moment.

[median maple]

Sounds like you are in the right place, let me know if you'd ever like to see a demo, Im happy to show you around and answer any questions 🙂

[oak yoke]

Hi from Civo 🙂

[ripe wing]

Hey Kunal good to see you around

[mint meadow]

Hi 👋🏻 from CloudQuery! Giving Dagger a proper look now.

[dense walrus]

Heya @mint meadow! Welcome 😄 shout if you want any pointers!
any particular language you're most interested in?

[mint meadow]

We are mostly Go, so I'll leverage that to start. I've been wanting a tool that has better local iteration, etc. I've been fighting with a GHA workflow for longer than I would care to admit and there was a talk at ATO this week around Dagger, so it feels like a good time to give it a go (no pun intended).

[dense walrus]

eyy nice 🎉 we've actually been doing a lot of squabbling over gha workflows recently, we're currently in the process of switching all of our pipelines to use auto-generated pipelines from dagger code 😄

[mint meadow]

Oh nice! Yeah this workflow I have been working on feels like "death by 1000 paper cuts"

[ripe wing]

or a 1000 YAML hacks 😛. Welcome! you're in the right place, we'll be with your during your Dagger journey, ping if you have any questions 🙌

[mint meadow]

100%

[pallid hearth]

That is awesome @mint meadow ! Shout to our friend @radiant kayak for her ATO talk 😍

[narrow tiger]

Hello, I'm configuring kubernetes for dagger. Is there any video for reference

Is there any official dagger image in Dockerhub

[ripe wing]

Welcome!

There's a Kubernetes integration guide in our docs here: https://docs.dagger.io/integrations/kubernetes/

We also have a helm chart which that guide references also

[narrow tiger]

Thank you,
Yes I did follow the above document. But I'm unable to access the application.

Using,
Kind: Service
Type: LoadBalancer

[ripe wing]

the engine doesn't expose a TCP listener by default. It creates a unix socket here: https://github.com/dagger/dagger/blob/main/helm/dagger/templates/engine-daemonset.yaml#L96-L98

So the way to access the engine is to mount that volume withing the CI runner container. cc @mortal sequoia do you know if we have an example about that somewhere? The Kuberentes integrations guide doesn't mention it

[narrow tiger]

Thank you @ripe wing

[ripe wing]

np! let's continue the chat in the #1302956533893693511 message channel 🙏

[stuck vortex]

Hi all, I am experimenting with Dagger, so far so good. One thing that I wanted to do is to visualize the trace in Grafana Tempo, instead of Dagger Cloud as I want to concentrate all my o11y in just one place. Is this possible ?

[median maple]

Hi all, I am experimenting with Dagger,

[fluid fulcrum]

Hello !
I'm Julien, SRE @ Blablacar, a french carpooling company.
With Emeric Martineau @ionic dew , we have built a codelab around Dagger (in french for now but we will translate it in english soon) to let people discover Dagger & easily play with it (thx to codespace): https://github.com/jhaumont/enter-the-daggerverse. Don't hesitate to play with it and share your feedbacks with us 🙂

[near storm]

Awesome @fluid fulcrum , thank you for making this, and for sharing your feedback along the way!

[pallid hearth]

Great to see you here!

[marsh rain]

Hi there! Circling back to dagger to see if it can help improve rust build times. Thanks for having me 🙏

[mortal sequoia]

#1302956533893693511 message

[pallid hearth]

Nice to see you! @fallen loom and many other Rust fans hang out in https://discord.com/channels/707636530424053791/1141601893538332704, so that's a great place to go if you have Rust specific questions.

[marsh rain]

Thanks Miranda! I'll do that

[ember osprey]

Hi there! Harsh Panchal here.
I am new to Dagger and exploring ways in which I could introduce it in my projects.

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! You might like our "daggerized projects" page that points to some project examples: https://dagger.io/daggerized-projects

Or our demos forum that shows more use cases as well: https://discord.com/channels/707636530424053791/1075928318802657340

[buoyant quarry]

Hi everyone! I just deployed my first dagger pipeline and thought it will be good to join the discord. I’m new to both but I’ve been chasing the perfect way to setup pipelines for little more than a decade . I was beginning to wonder if I was just chasing a pipe dream 😉 I am still working through a bit of pipeline trauma from years past. I think I sort of get the idea behind dagger and I like the whole "lets completely rethink this" kind of approach. I look forward to learning more and by the way, where can one get that cool dagger shirt?

[pallid hearth]

Welcome and thanks for sharing your story with us! I might know a way to get a shirt. 🙂 I’ll DM you.

[glossy storm]

Hi, I really love this conceptual idea and look forward to testing it out, working with AzureDevops, GitLab and Github all at the same organization these type of projects really speak to me! I would love to know how I could contribute to the Daggerverse website, if that is possible

[violet summit]

Hi! 👋 I was introduced to Dagger via a podcast while driving to KubeCon yesteday. Looking foward to learning how Dagger is better than Maven or Bazel at DAGs, assuming it will be better because it's polyglot and has a better user experience than either. Been talking to an associate about WASM cloud and kind of interested in how these might work together... wheee!!

[median maple]

Welcome! A bunch of us are at kubecon, come say hi 🙂

[dense walrus]

looking forward to seeing ya there 🎉

[stiff jacinth]

I’m wandering around here today hope to run into you guys at some point 🙂

[median maple]

Hey! We’re by 151G 🙂

[forest pumice]

Hey there, heard about Dagger a long time ago when Cue was the only way to go, and I kinda buried the tech under a carpet for that reason and the lack of support for unprivileged container engines (which is still ongoing as I heard).
Lately it got to my attention that Cue was not a thing anymore and we could use real programming languages to configure and use Dagger so I'm considering giving it a second chance in the next weeks/months. The privileged container engine is still a big concern to me but I'll see if I can live with that.
Anyway, really cool project!
And btw I'm at KubeCon, had a lengthy chat with Sam yesterday at the co-located event 🙂

[vague goblet]

Greetings everyone!! 👋👋
I came across Dagger few months back while exploring advance tools for building and automating CI/CD workflows. Trying to find a solution which allows seamless integration and deployment process and Dagger's approach to managing pipeline and resources through code immediately stood out. My focus is on building and configuring an engine container for development and deployment , aligning it with best practices to ensure scalability and efficiency.
Currently just started with Daggerize application got issues solved them own, I'm loving it so far!
As I'm still in the early stages of understanding Dagger and learning along with beginners friendly resource to solidify my understanding, I'm excited to deepen my knowledge and applying it's feature as I progress.
I'd appreciate any additional resources that you think might be helpful. Looking forward to join future community calls and connect wit others .

[pallid hearth]

Thank you for stopping by and talking with us at KubeCon. Welcome to the community!

[pallid hearth]

Great to meet you, and thanks for the kind words! We're excited to be with you on your Dagger journey. You might find our demos forum helpful and of course, feel free to use our help forum if you get stuck on anything!

https://discord.com/channels/707636530424053791/1030538312508776540
https://discord.com/channels/707636530424053791/1075928318802657340

I hope to see you at our community call next week! You can add the series to your calendar with this link: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y19mZDEyYWRjOTI3ZTQ0MDVkMGY2NmUyZjA2Yjk0OTI3YzI4ZjA2YzJkMWQzZDFiOTRlNTIwMjZkNGU0MjMzNWQxQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20

[simple plume]

Hey everybody, I came across Dagger when looking for a solution to replace our current CICD system and loved the idea to code the pipelines using Python! I'm currently working on a POC using Dagger and I'm already amazed by multiple innovative concepts! Looking forward for new incredible features 😉

[karmic swallow]

Welcome @simple plume! Glad you're here 🙂

[median maple]

Welcome! Let me know if there is anything I can do to help with your POC

[prisma jetty]

Greetings! I'm Charles. I am hoping to become a Dagger expert over time. I have some complex use cases which I hope Dagger will be a big help in.

[median maple]

Welcome! Can you share more about those use cases?

[prisma jetty]

I'd like to do that initially discreetly. Its a project idea that I'm researching and prototyping. Would certainly love the perspective and opinion of the Dagger team.

Do you have a ticketing system?

[grim condor]

Hi there, great to be part of this community! I am working at CERN at the intersection between AI and HPC and we would like to streamline the process of building containers for workloads on HPC. I have been introduced to Dagger by a friend on mine, who's also a Commander 🙂

So far I was able to build, test, and push containers to GHCR, pull them on the desired HPC systems, and run my distributed ML workflows. Lately, I have been looking a bit more closely on ways to integrate Dagger with HPC, for instance by converting a Docker image to a Singularity/Apptainer one... I will ask a question about that in a separate thread soon.

Nice to meet you! 🙂

[near storm]

Welcome! I think I can guess which commander... 🙂 This seems like a very interesting use case, we would be happy to help.

[grim condor]

Hi @near storm ! I have created a new post here where we can discuss in more details 🙂 https://discord.com/channels/707636530424053791/1308142376631406675

[surreal prairie]

github issues sync to our semi-internal linear

[dapper frigate]

hello 👋 my name is Chris and I'm a site reliability engineer at a small company (~200 people, engineering org is ~60) and my team has recently inherited a set of tooling that serves our CI/CD and local development environments. We're finding this tooling limiting and difficult to iterate upon and IMO unnecessarily bespoke. I came across Dagger and it looks pretty rad so I'm evaluating it as a potential replacement. Some of the questions I have off the bat (which maybe someone can speak to?) are:

• If I build a bunch of Dagger pipelines in Go, is there a way to compile and ship them as a single binary? We're looking for ways to make installation/distribution for multiple repos/services super simple
• Are Dagger pipelines flexible enough to apply the same pipeline(s) to multiple services? We have a few cases of multiple repos having multiple services and we want to support a default/shared functionality for common tasks like test, build, deploy, etc., for each service but still have the option to override/customize as needed (e.g. for deploy, one service might push a Docker image to AWS ECS, another might push compiled JS to S3 and bust some cache at the edge, etc.)

[tame robin]

I'm TodPunk, I'm looking at dagger to not be tied to a specific vendor platform (or their outages) so it's interesting there.

[dense walrus]

Heya welcome 🎉🎉

[glass pivot]

Hi, flatwound here. Currently working in a Java/kotlin (primarily springboot/mvn)/angular microservices environment with GitHub actions, nomad/consul, vault. Looking into dagger to see if we can make the cicd more transparent to the developers.

[ripe wing]

Welcome! You're in the right place. We're around if you have any questions

[glass pivot]

well I do have one off the bat, we're currently doing quite a lot of logic inside GHA that contain contextual variables, e.g. when processing a merge group event, we have an action that retrieves the associated PRs details for the merge group to make decisions on (e.g. if there's a certain label set, some slack-notify action should not fire). I'm having some diffculty mentally mapping these kind of constructs to dagger. I don't think dagger has access to these CI/CD specific contexts, or am I missing something here? In my mind currently dagger is like a fancy way of writing a build.sh for a repo that basically does mvn install + docker build, but i'm pretty sure i'm missing something here 😄

[ripe wing]

well I do have one off the bat, we're

[harsh drum]

Hi every one

[rancid cape]

hello guys

[deft sapphire]

hello everyone!

[dense walrus]

Heya @deft sapphire, welcome!

[craggy patrol]

Hi, I'm Michael, I run Dagger to build all my images. I'm using the build matrix ( https://docs.dagger.io/cookbook/#build-multi-arch-image ). Dagger allows me to go so much faster! it is really a good experience!

[native quail]

hello everyone

[solemn finch]

👋 hello

[leaden canopy]

Hi! I'm a software architect working cross functionally in our org. I have a background in Platform Engineering, and while I haven't used Dagger professionally, I'm a big fan with the approach and I thought I'd join the discord to learn from and engage with the community.

[ember hawk]

Welcome @leaden canopy ...You mention not using Dagger professionally yet, did you by any chance catch @static summit's demo of using it for his pet Dota project on today's community call? Super fun example of using Dagger for personal projects on the side as he works to convert his colleagues to the light side during the day https://www.youtube.com/live/3NTsrpKt4FU?si=Hhi4S6khKTF_jSnP

[leaden canopy]

I had the video open as I type this. great stuff.

[twilit elk]

Hi folks! I meet @old swift in person during the SymfonyCon in Vienna. I’m here to learn Dagger and help to integrate it for Symfony projects 👋

[old swift]

Hey @twilit elk 🫡

Join #php channel 🙂

[ripe rapids]

Hi everyone! I'm a systems engineer, I found out about Dagger through a friend, since I read its objective I found it to be a very interesting and useful tool. I am here to learn a lot from you.

[lime trail]

Hello!! Been hearing about Dagger for a while and digging into using it in an innovation project at work this week.

[near storm]

Welcome Rebecca!

[unborn pasture]

Hello everyone! I’m an SRE manager that stumbled across Dagger on the Platform Engineering Podcast. I love the use of DAGs and CI-as-code in Dagger. I’m hoping to replace a combination of Azure DevOps and GitHub Yaml with Dagger to build and ship dotnet and typescript apps.

[karmic swallow]

Welcome @unborn pasture !

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! Thanks for joining the community.

[old swift]

Perfect use case @unborn pasture

[jolly quartz]

Hi, Im Don, currently try to adopt dagger to github

[ripe wing]

Hey Don, Welcome! We're here if you have any questions.

Merry Christmas!: 🎄

[spring dawn]

Hello. I'm John. I'm platform team lead and I'm currently digging into Dagger once more. My last serious try dates back the cuelang version. I'm looking for the best way to replace Github Reusable Workflow which is a fantastic feature but hard to maintained in a long term.

[ember hawk]

Welcome John! We're thrilled to have join us once again. I think you will find a lot has evolved, feel free to give us your impressions as you go through the Quickstart and start Daggerizing your pipelines, positive or constructive! What are you hoping to achieve with Dagger more broadly?

[median maple]

Welcome!

I'd suggest going through the Quickstart if you have not already because it shows off Dagger Modules which are the best way to replace GitHub Reusable Workflow https://docs.dagger.io/quickstart

Also, let me know if you'd like to set up a demo this week or next, I can show you the latest and greatest features and chat more about your specific needs.

[karmic swallow]

Welcome, John! What brought you back?
Which SDK or SDKs are you looking at? PHP? Go? TypeScript? Python?

[spring dawn]

Thank you.
I'm back for a few reasons :

• I never stop to follow the news come from Dagger
• a new developper in my company comes from Dagger 😆

The SDK will be GO.

[spring dawn]

Thank you very much. I am currently in the process of daggerizing a pipeline and creating modules.

[rapid orbit]

Hi there, 👋
Formerly from Teads leadership, I've had the pleasure to meet @shy relic @near storm and jf farge in Paris. I'm now working for Betclic, an online gambling company, in the devx department where we maintain a CI for 5OO engineers. And guess what, we are seriously considering using Dagger on this one to abstract our runtime and build a CI as a platform offering. As a starter, I'd like to schedule a demo with you so my team can glimpse Dagger's power. Let me know when we can arrange that!

[ember hawk]

If English is ok for you I'm sure @median maple will be thrilled to jump on a call with you! If French is better, no problem on parle le Francais un peux chez Dagger, ca peux s'arranger...

[rapid orbit]

well, I'd say English but I need to double-check with my team, to see if they are comfortable with that. Let me get back to you on that and happy 2025 btw!

[ember hawk]

Sounds good! Let us know!

[shy relic]

Great to see you back 👼

[median maple]

Welcome back, excited to chat with you some more. Please feel free to find a time right here that works for you and your team. https://meetings.hubspot.com/llazinskiy/dagger-demo-request?uuid=2aeb7f33-7727-48f5-be83-bf7ec125a0b6

If you don't see anything there please share a few slots that work with you and I'll coordinate on our end. You can email me any time at [e-mail]

[dry brook]

Hi friends ❤️ eve aka nasty here. part of an early stage bayesian AI/ML startup . we are exploring options for declarative data pipeline & model building methods and came across Dagger and ModelKit. I knew about dagger from back in the day of considering it for use with application CI/CD in like 2021 or something but haven't really given it a shot. Excited to play around 🙂

[dry brook]

also, hello long time @eager sky

[eager sky]

hi!

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! Much has changed since 2021, so I’m looking forward to hearing any feedback that you might have on our QuickStart.

We’re excited to see where your project goes!

[unborn furnace]

Hey! Just starting out with Dagger

[near storm]

Welcome! Do you have a project in mind?

[unborn furnace]

Yes, looking at Terraform infrastructure deployments

[ripe wing]

if you have any qustions we're around! There's also the #terraform channel 🙌

[lime radish]

hi! mingjie here, and I'm working at a startup building an online learning & social platform for homeschoolers. we're just getting started with creating a proper CI/CD pipeline. we're super hyped to build some cool stuff with dagger!

[pallid hearth]

That's great, thanks for sharing! Our bi-weekly community call is tomorrow. We'd love to see you there! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCU3cZibObw

[tender mulch]

Hello, Dagger community. After attending a few demo sessions, I decided to jump in. My areas of expertise are AI and pharma, but I am very excited to mingle with production-ready setups nowadays—K8s and running LLM workload locally in my home lab. Excited to go through my dagger journey with you

[next mason]

Hi there, saw Paul's talk this morning about Dagger, can't wait to try it 🙂

[ember hawk]

We're seeing more and more folks from the PhP community join us. Welcome and check out the #php channel for lots of great discussions.

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! You may enjoy our AI channel. We've being working on AI agent use cases, so it would be great to get your feedback! https://discord.com/channels/707636530424053791/1326978746703548416

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! The https://discord.com/channels/707636530424053791/1162025276872609832 channel is a great place to hang out 🙂

[sinful stone]

Hi All,
Interested in contribution on new technologies

[sick slate]

is there a link to depot I was having a problem finding their service website

[karmic swallow]

https://depot.dev

[pallid hearth]

Great, welcome!

We want to get better at having a "first issue" type of experience for new contributors, but we aren't there yet. If you have a specific language that you are more comfortable with, let me know, and I can connect you to the SDK maintainers/community members who are always looking for helping hands.

[winged current]

Hey! I am Shailesh. I am very new to dagger, very interested to learn and use it.

[near storm]

Welcome Shailesh! Do you have a project in mind?

[winged current]

We are currently trying out dagger in my current company

[pallid hearth]

Great to hear, and welcome to the community! Thanks for jumping into the help forum with your questions.

You may see a DM from me soon to learn more about your initial Dagger experience.

[trail snow]

Very interested in using Dagger coming form an Ansible environment.

Additional, learning Rust and looking forward to use Dagger in combination with Rust 😉

[somber void]

Hi everyone. I am learning dagger. I hope to be able to use it to run CI/CD on kubernetes or locally instead of on some cloud provider with hacky yaml.

[ripe wing]

Hey! welcome! You migh wanto to hang along in the #rust channel. Cool stuff happening there around Rust + Dagger including a beta Rust Dagger SDK 😉

[ripe wing]

Welcome! you're in the right place. Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions

[tawny dawn]

Hey all, I was introduced to Dagger as part of a new job induction, so just looking to learn and figure out how it all hangs together!

[ripe wing]

hey! welcome! curious about how Dagger was introduced and what was your reaction about it 🙂

[ocean wing]

Hello everyone, I am Sathwik. I am learning Go and want to contribute to Dagger.

[true lily]

Hello, I'm Rodrigo. We are trying to introduce Dagger in my company.

[ripe wing]

Welcome Rodrigo! that's great to hear. We're around if you have any questions

[candid blaze]

Hi, i'm Adrien and i will participate a Dagger test on my client's compagny

[ripe wing]

Welcome Adrien! It's awesome to have you here. We're around if you have any questions

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! We have many folks in here who are doing the same. One Daggernaut started a thread to support each other through the process of introducing Dagger within an organization. We'd love your feedback and thoughts here too! https://discord.com/channels/707636530424053791/1332126539256430723

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! We'd love your feedback in the thread above too. ☝️

[kindred galleon]

👋 I lead product at Neon and I'm trying out Dagger. Interested if we can create a Neon DB integration for Dagger 💚

[near storm]

Welcome Bryan! We're big Neon fans, in fact I believe we just migrated parts of our infra to you guys last week 🙂

cc @karmic swallow @mortal sequoia @unreal lava

[kindred galleon]

hey @near storm ! i heard this and wanted to check things out!
also i believe we met once a few years ago when i worked at GitHub, pretty sure it was coffee at the Moscone Center. I'm a big fan of Dagger

[lucid salmon]

Howdy! Co-founder of Thunder Compute here. We were in YC this summer building software to network attach GPUs. Our team is testing a Dagger integration where we plug in GPUs on-demand to existing CI/CD pipelines

[pallid hearth]

Great to see you here! cc @karmic swallow

[lucid salmon]

Great to be here! Connected on X and am chatting with Jeremy tomorrow

[lost trench]

super glad to be here!

[covert heron]

Greetings, I'm Nate, I attended a meetup with a presentation on Dagger and am keen to see more of what it can do and how it fits into the overall IaC/DevOps/CI flow

[oak crown]

Hi ! I'm Frederic and I'm very interested to look out and test Dagger, it look very promising to relieve me of the Pain of YAML 😄

[karmic swallow]

Great to see you here, @covert heron 👋

[pallid hearth]

Happy to see you here @covert heron !

[pallid hearth]

Welcome @oak crown ! Looking forward to see how your Dagger journey goes. Let us know how we can help!

[upper heath]

Hi there. Ben here from cold Ottawa 😉 I'm really eager to get rid of my push-and-pray GitHub + script + tons of non-reusable YAML that works well all the time.

Trunk-based development + monorepo (and other repos) pushing via FluxCD to Kubernetes clusters. Nextjs for the frontend and a go / typescript for services.

[polar flume]

Welcome! I'm a former Ottawan myself!

[pallid hearth]

Welcome @upper heath ! You might like the demo forum https://discord.com/channels/707636530424053791/1075928318802657340

[rich sun]

Hello from Italy!

[nova drift]

Hello everyone!

[gusty plaza]

Hi Everyone. I'm Alex, living between Italy and the UK. Latest experiences in Crypto (Ledger and a DePin protocol where I was principal dev). Really loving Dagger after having felt some physical pain with Bazel. Willing to contribute if the occasion arises.

[near storm]

Welcome Alex! Let us know if we can help with anything.

And if you're looking for small contributions to get you started, we can help with that too 🙂

[ornate bramble]

Nick (SemanticBeeng): decentralized Verifiable AI (both science and engineering).

[obsidian parrot]

Howdy, from a Portuguese living faaaar north in Sweden. Playing around with dagger seeing if dagger if it solves some particular pain points! 🙂

[ripe wing]

👋 hey there! welcome! we're around if you have any upfront concerns or questions!

[haughty island]

👋

[cursive zealot]

Hello from Canada! 🇨🇦 ❄️

[mild flame]

Hi, I’m Daniel, an MLOps engineer.

I just joined an early startup building AI-generated personas. I’m evaluating Dagger for our CI pipelines.

Previously I’ve been working on Dagster 🙂

[bold spade]

Huge Hello
I’m just a casual developer and internet psychologist.

[reef sigil]

Hello Loïc From Quebec !

[craggy bobcat]

Hey y’all, my names Ethan Walker from Austin Texas. I just learned about Dagger from a tech event in SF where Solomon teased some of the amazing agentic capabilities. Super stoked to apply this in my consulting business and be a part of this community

[karmic swallow]

It was great to meet you @craggy bobcat !

[spark dragon]

Hi everyone! I am Anurag from San Francisco Bay Area. Attended an event in SF Cloudflare office and learnt about Dagger from Solomon. Very cool demo with building a curl application container! I am a Full Stack Engineer, and have used Docker extensively through my career. Would love to contribute to this community.

[near storm]

Welcome Ethan! Thanks for atttending tonight! The agent experiments are happening on #agents for now. We're happy to answer any questions, and will share instructions soon to replicate my demo and build your own variations.

In the meantime it doesn't hurt to learn Dagger 101 from our docs. Even though it doesn't mention agents (yet) it's all the same platform so everything translates directly from daggerizing a build to daggerizing an agent. The only missing piece in the stable release is the llm primitive, that's still on a dev branch

[native timber]

Howdy Folks! I'm Matt Nodurfth. I met several of the dagger'ers (?) at Civo. Wild demos and workshops! Cheers All

[median maple]

Great to meet you there, welcome to our community!

[silk laurel]

Hello Folks
Kim form Kenya
Nice to meet you all

[near storm]

Hi Kim, welcome! Do you have a project in mind for Dagger? And how can we help 🙂

[silk laurel]

Thank you
At the moment no

[lyric shell]

Hello Everyone! 👋 Just watched Solomons demo of Dagger for building Agents. Very excited to try it out and hack on top of it! 🚀

[near storm]

Welcome 🙂 Make yourself at home in #agents that's where we're all hacking on that demo.

I'm very curious to hear your thoughts and ideas for use cases.

PS just connected the dots from your tweet 🙂

[nocturne barn]

Hello! I'm Victor. I work with fullstack javascript as well as platform and auth

[maiden turtle]

Hey! I am Oumar from Senegal! I came here after seing the "Containerize your agents!" video in the hope to learn more about Dagger 🙂

[near storm]

Bienvenue Oumar! Be sure to follow #agents and don't hesitate to ask questions!

Do you have a particular project in mind?

[ornate haven]

Hello everyone, I'm David from Belgium.
I'm a developer with a focus on continuous integration, and following Dagger from a distance since some time.
Now I'd like to get more familiar !

[near storm]

Welcome David! Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions! Do you have a project that is your excuse to play with Dagger? Or still looking for an excuse 🙂

[ornate haven]

Thank you Solomon ! It's an honor to meet you 🙂
I have a small toy project that could definitely use some Dagger, and hopefully this can translate into more serious ones in the future.

[queen niche]

Hi everyone, I am Andrew from Minnesota I'm building a startup that, I think is going to heavily leverage Dagger and #agents

[near storm]

Welcome 👋 I'm curious to learn more 🙂

[strong sun]

Hi, my name is Ankur Duggal! I'm super interested in learning more about this and building using it. I'm about to build a multi-agent network with a few tool calls and can see how useful this would be

[pallid hearth]

Welcome @strong sun ! Looking forward to seeing what you build, and hopefully we can have you demo on the Dagger Community Call soon!

[maiden turtle]

Thanks for welcoming me up @near storm! No particular project in mind. I first must grok what Dagger is.
Any pointer to concept, philosophy or how-tos are more than welcome?

[full ginkgo]

Hi, just a basic public servant that will make a presentation on devops and i would like toinclude dagger.io in my presentation

[random wharf]

Hello! I am new here (I don't know anything, I'm attempting to teach myself to program and trying to build myself a visual scripting tool)

[pallid hearth]

Nice to meet you @full ginkgo ! We don't have updated messaging on agents yet since it is so new, but here is a Dagger overview deck if it is helpful for you!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VUPTvajY-RXlByUA9hyybDve5slVvqGCGDBbwpfciM4/edit#slide=id.g2c8c4b64226_0_177

I suggest including examples or mentions of the agent use case too, which can be pulled from Solomon's demo here: https://youtu.be/XWO_3My2eVU

If you are presenting somewhere, let us know and we can help promote!

[full ginkgo]

thanks

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! We're excited to be part of your programming journey.

[deft kindle]

Hi there 👋 , I'm Bastien from Loft. We've met yesterday. Excited to finally start the dagger journey!

[silent gust]

Hey there, I've spent a lot of time/compute cycles waiting for github/gitlab CI to eventually fail due to silly errors - things that would of been identified if run locally. Really excited to see where this project goes.

[median maple]

Welcome great to meet you, thanks for joining us here!

[near storm]

Good old "push and pray"... We've been there. Welcome 🙂 You've come to the right place.

[near storm]

Welcome Bastien! Looking forward to seeing what you prototype 🙂

--> There's a #gitlab channel specific to Gitlab integration
--> In the same vein: #kubernetes
--> For the cool AI agent experiments, there is #agents
--> If you want to talk with the core devs about airgapped environments, or other unusual hardware constraints 😇 --> #maintainers

[shadow summit]

Hi there ! I'm Paola, last year Systems Engineering student 🪐
I have to do a couple of Dagger modules as my intern project in a DevSecOps team and I'd like to improve my knowledge with documentation, tutorials and projects of the community.
If you have any advice feel free to send me a message or comment in general channels, thanks!

[pallid hearth]

Welcome to the community! We'd love to learn more about what Dagger modules you built and why you choose to build them.

Since you mentioned keeping up with community projects, check out this new repo! It's hot off the press, and showcases awesome examples of how to build AI agents with Dagger. https://github.com/dagger/agents

[hushed orchid]

Hi! I'm Habib, a DevOps intern at NeuralBey. Currently, I'm daggerizing the CI/CD pipeline.

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! We're looking forward to seeing what you build.

[wheat depot]

Hello! I'm currently working on daggerizing a build in our monorepo, and then using that for some CI/CD integrations. I haven't made a decision on what CI/CD system to use quite yet because I hate CI/CD systems so much.

[ripe wing]

you're in the right place! We weren't happy with the state of CI/CD a while back, that's what inspired us to work on Dagger. We're around if you have any questions!

[crimson vortex]

Hello I want to optimize Dockerfiles

[karmic swallow]

Welcome @crimson vortex! Love to hear more about your use case 😃

Were you thinking of the Dagger AI agent demo of Dockerfile optimization? https://github.com/dagger/agents/tree/main/dockerfile-optimizer

Or using the prototype "Docker SDK" to generate Dagger Functions right from Dockerfiles (and Compose files): #1342049920860946453 message

Or another approach? 🙂

Of course, you can also use Dagger to build your Dockerfiles: https://docs.dagger.io/cookbook/#build-image-from-dockerfile
or to replace your Dockerfiles with code: https://docs.dagger.io/cookbook/#builds

[crimson vortex]

Yes I was thinking of
Docker AI agent démo

[crimson warren]

Hello! Just a software engineer interested in learning more about dagger.

[near storm]

Welcome! Are you thinking of Dagger for a CI or AI agent use case? (both is fine too 🙂 )

[crimson warren]

The agent & tooling use case brought me here. For CI I’ve mostly been using the code pipeline stuff from AWS (or Xcode build for my iOS products).

[dapper zodiac]

Hi 👋 I’m a doctoral student in Computational Biology at UT Dallas. Graduating in June. I’m hoping to use Dagger to automate tool selection and running based on prompting. I’ve worked on a similar tool using LangChain but like the idea of Dagger better for this use case

[near storm]

Welcome! That seems like a great use case, let us know how it goes in #agents we'll be happy to help!

You can follow https://docs.dagger.io/ai-agents to get started

[tight zenith]

👋 Hi, I'm Philippe (SA at Docker, former CSM at GitLab) - I'm addicted to webassembly and AI

[median maple]

Welcome! You came to the right place 😄

[past sand]

Yo! Joining the Dagger revolution here from northern Italy 🙂

[terse raptor]

Hi I'm Helena from Stanford! Dagger is a really cool project and I thought it could complement PocketFlow's nested directed graph abstraction (https://github.com/The-Pocket-World/Pocket-Flow-Framework)

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! How did you find out about us? Will you be at KubeCon EU?

[past sand]

Thanks! I found out about Dagger from the Google Kubernetes Podcast eposide with Solomon!

[pallid hearth]

Welcome, and thanks for sharing! cc @karmic swallow

We look forward to seeing what you build.

[near storm]

"enable LLMs to program themselves" love that 🙂 Definitely should bring it up in #agents

[past sand]

Unfortunately, I can't join KubeCon EU—maybe next time! But I'll be at CloudConf 2025 in Turin on the 26th.

[vagrant dune]

hi! i'm Josh and i'm the cofounder of engines.dev. we're working on infra for AI SWEs, we just shipped our first OSS project, a code navigation tool: https://www.engines.dev/blog/code-navigation

we're working now on a build agent:

• input: a git repo
• output: a Docker image/Dockerfile with the commands to build, test and run the code from the repo

i'm coming from X where Solomon and i were chatting about the AI agent demos he's posted (also, my cofounder shared Solomon's recent talk on Youtube with me and we both think it's super cool!)

[gritty comet]

hi I'm Sanchit a SWE, looking forward to learning more about dagger!!

[lucid osprey]

hi

[knotty scaffold]

Hi

[keen valve]

Hi

[patent skiff]

Hi

[deft temple]

Hi! Excited to test dagger out.

[edgy yoke]

Hi, interested in the alternative to Claude Code and comes from twitter

[polar flume]

Welcome! Check out the channel #agents and https://docs.dagger.io/ai-agents for the latest on this experimental feature 🙂

[zealous bane]

Hey y’all long time fan of dagger excited to spend my weekend hacking AI agents

[near storm]

welcome! Let us know how it goes 🙂 the agent discussions are happening in #agents

[pallid vault]

Hi, John here, I'm new to dagger. just trying it out for the first time. Interested in building with ai agents. Saw Solomon's post on X about an alternate to claude code. I stepped away from Go about 5 years ago for a stint doing mainly python programming, so catching back up.

[fervent quail]

Good days! #agi

[median maple]

Welcome! we have SDKs in both languages so you can pick your fav 🙂

[hasty lark]

Hi Mr. Hykes, I was there at your talk today at the SCALE conference. I’m from Polytechnic School. I just wanted to say, I really appreciated learning about containers and Dagger today and found it really interesting!

[reef sparrow]

Hi there! I’m a DevOps engineer looking to speed up our CI. We use GitLab CI runners, but since we all have powerful MacBook Pros, I’m wondering if we can leverage Dagger.

Specifically, can Dagger work with pre-commit hooks to run CI steps locally and then share those results with GitLab CI, so it can skip the already completed steps?

[slender wave]

Hello

[karmic swallow]

GitLab local checks

[icy glade]

Hi Mr. Guilaume , I was that one kid that used linex to hack into the school laptops i am writing this msg on it, was there at your expo yesterday at the linex conference , I just wanted to thank you for the time you spent to talk to me about dagger and GO,

[deft sigil]

hey

[shy relic]

It was a pleasure talking with you 🚀 Happy to see you join us in the agentic creation fun 👼

[elder moss]

Hi everyone

[keen pine]

hi all. I'm here to check out dagger because I'm using Claude Code pretty heavily on a new project but am not super happy with the lack of transparency/customization

[coral jewel]

We were at the talk given at Crecimiento Aleph Buenos Aires the other day and we wanted to join the community.

[near storm]

Welcome! Be sure to visit #agents and install the latest llm-enabled version of dagger. Would love to learn more about how you've been using Claude Code, and how the need for more customization manifested itself

[near storm]

Welcome! Did you attend @ripe wing 's talk? 🙂

[ripe wing]

Hola!

[hazy badge]

Hey everyone, my name is William and i'm 22 yo and I'm from france. I'm back after almost a year here, we are currently building with a group of friends a minecraft server and we are going to use dagger for a CI pipeline to test/build/publish our plugins. Why not using it for running llm agents one day and as already said I love go and java

[tawny knoll]

Hi all. Ant Weiss here. DevOps and platform expert with 25 years of experience. Currently whispering at clusters for https://PerfectScale.io

[hazy bluff]

Hi! Maël from France, we're building smart, REPAIRABLE and fireproof e-bike batteries in Bordeaux (check out https://gouach.com)

Looking at Dagger both for our CI, and possibly to help us build LLM-enabled workflows to query our database, and check how our batteries fleet is going

[drifting dirge]

Let us know if you have any questions! I see you found the database-agent repo 😄 . Happy to explore your use case with that example in mind!

[undone belfry]

Hello, everyone. I', @undone belfry. See you at KubeCon.

[twilit glacier]

Hi all! See you at KubeCon.

[open barn]

Hello, I am light from shanghai

[magic creek]

Howdy partners

[karmic shell]

👋

[hallow vale]

Berlin!

[regal snow]

👋

[fair trout]

Hello Friends

[ripe wing]

hello 👋

[grand compass]

Hi 👋🏻

[pine stone]

Hi

[flat moat]

hello

[livid tinsel]

Hello Everyone!

[ripe wing]

Welcome new Daggernauts! we're curious about what you're looking forward to use Dagger for. There's people here with vast knowledge on multiple domains hacking on some cool stuff. Sharing what's in your head is generally a great converstaion starter.

If you have any questions the Dagger team is around to help you out!

[manic yew]

Hi, first time dagger user

[near storm]

Welcome! Do you have a project in mind?

[manic yew]

We're tired of our CI pipelines being done in yaml files and shell scripts. Trying to determine if dagger is better than just writing it in python without a framework

[nova spoke]

Hello there 👋 I saw Paul Dragoonis' PHP UK conf talk on Dagger, it looks like it might solve a lot of pain points I have around CI with PHP / Laravel apps and I'm excited to try it out.

I'm currently in the middle of a Laravel version upgrade which has broken my old pipelines, so now's a great time to play with something new rather than trying to salvage the existing hacky mess I had. Apologies in advance for any noob questions I might be asking later 😁

[near storm]

Welcome! No apologies necessary, we love helping Dagger beginners get started .

[drifting dirge]

👋 long time Laravel user here, feel free to ask away! If you want to use the PHP SDK, we have the #php channel for specific details or the #1030538312508776540channel. Either way we are happy to help!

[lament steeple]

Hi everyone, I'm Chanh from Sweden, a researcher working in the cloud-edge continuum domain ( resource management, edge native application deployment). I had a great chat with some of the folks from Dagger at KubeCon 2025 and would love to join the community to learn more

[polar harness]

Hello everyone, this is Ugur from Bristol.
I was in the London event. It was nice to meet you.

[bronze parrot]

Hey everyone. I am Tejaswi. Trying to explore Dagger for my spring boot project

[reef mango]

Hi everyone! I'm Andrea and I'm a DevOps engineer. I'd like to take a deeper look at Dagger (I did my fair share of graph theory/network optimization in my master's degree a few years back and DAG's always fascinated me)

[near storm]

Welcome!

@fratel.bigio if you like DAGs you came to the right place 🙂

[pallid hearth]

Welcome @lament steeple @polar harness @bronze parrot @reef mango ! Thanks for joining the community.

Hope to see you at our community call on Thursday this week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH7xVouYr6w

[hollow trout]

Hi everyone, I'm Adil. I'm currently integrating Dagger into my web projects.

[near storm]

welcome!

[wooden umbra]

Hi Everyone! I'm Vish.Excited to be Part of the Community🚀

[lost trench]

Hey Daggernauts! I'm very happy to part of this community

[near storm]

Welcome 🙂

[muted fern]

Hello. Learning dagger

[heavy drift]

welcome! what are you hoping to build with it?

[gritty dagger]

Hi there! I am dira. Nice to meet you all 👋 . Currently tinkering with dagger for ai agent.

[muted fern]

Looking to replace a dated non-containerized Jenkins CI process that uses make and docker to build hundreds of K8s Helm workloads. We are wanting an opiniated process that allows us to determine build and runtime images to maintain consistency and update for CVEs. Most applications are go but we do have Java and Python mixed in.

[muted fern]

Additionaly allow the devlopers to build using the same tools used by the CI Pipelin (likey github actions)

[blazing path]

Hey, here learning dagger to improve my ci/cd

[median maple]

Welcome! What are you using for CI today?

[blazing path]

jenkins unfortunately 😢

[karmic swallow]

Should work well 🙂

[solar zephyr]

Hi all, I'm here to learn more about dagger in ci/cd

[median maple]

Welcome! What are you using for CI today?

[median maple]

Many people here use Dagger with Jenkins, its a great fit if you are looking to escape groovy 😄

[solar zephyr]

Azure Pipelines 🙂

[fathom tide]

Hey y'all 👋
I'm tinkering with Dagger so I can streamline the way my team ships software at work.

[ripe wing]

you're in the right place @fathom tide. We're around if you have any questions or would like to ping pong some ideas 🙌

[sick venture]

Hi All, I am a Full Stack developer. I would like to re-learn dagger and contribute to development

[ripe wing]

Welcome. You'll find very relevant info here: https://discord.com/channels/707636530424053791/1359449990036066355. Don't hesistate to ask if you have any questions

[solemn bane]

Hi, I'm playing around with dagger at home and saw the discord link

[near storm]

Welcome 🙂 Do you have a particular project in mind for Dagger? Are you playing with the new AI agent features?

[solemn bane]

Not at the moment, right now I'm looking at bootstrapping go projects with dagger pipelines out of the box

[stark anvil]

Hi there 👋
We're switching to Gitlab CI and Kubernetes.
I started playing with TestContainers to speed the testing contexts initialisations locally.
I am going to try locally CI with awesome Dagger presented at Devoxx 😎👍

[near storm]

Nice 🙂 Welcome! let us know if we can help with anything

[teal monolith]

Hey Folks, Fabiano Fidêncio from the Kata Containers community here, just getting to the Dagger discord to keep an eye on the project / integration. 🙂

[pallid hearth]

Welcome!

[teal monolith]

Thanks!

Also, not sure who were the folks from Dagger who attended KubeCon EU at the beginnig of the month, but I must emphasize that I had a very nice experience meeting the ones that I met there(but I'm terrible with names /o).

[outer tusk]

David Okeamah

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! Are you just getting started with Dagger?

[outer tusk]

Yes

[pallid hearth]

Great! Let us know how we can help as you start your Dagger journey. 🚀

@teal monolith @outer tusk , our Community call is coming up this week, so we'd love to see y'all and everyone else there! You can watch the livestream on Thursday at 9 am PT here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEcD7exeafU

[wispy spire]

Hiii everyone!! I just joined and I'm looking to get familiar with Dagger 🙂

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! Do you have Dagger project in mind already?

[wispy spire]

Nothing in mind yet but I'm joining a new org soon and I think Dagger could be a solution to some of the issues they have.

[plush terrace]

Howdy. I'm managing a micro-mono Go repository with about 12 related services and using GitHub Actions to run CI. I'm finally at a scale where this doesn't work for me specifically because their cache is limited. I'd also like to achieve build step parity in both dev workstations and CI workflows. Hopefully, Dagger can help me achieve these goals.

[median maple]

Howdy. I'm managing a micro-mono Go

[delicate wagon]

Not currently in a channel.

[dark axle]

Hi Daggernauts, lewismc here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewismcgibbney/). I'm a Software Solutions Architect and been learning more about using Dagger to improve CI/CD workflows for a few years now. @pallid hearth , when your "LLM Primitive in Dagger" community email just dropped, I had to join the Discord 👍 Interesting stuff. Congrats to the Dagger Team for for adding this major experimental feature to v0.18.

[median maple]

Welcome to the community, thanks for joining us! Do you have something in mind to build with this new capability? 🙂

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! Looking forward to seeing what you build!

[dark axle]

Not right now. I will need to test it out first to find my feet. An exciting development.

[median maple]

Sounds good, we'll be doing a live stream next week diving into some of this new functionality. Join us!
(here one from last week that walked through the quickstart 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/live/hiHkTcH6L5o?feature=shared