intros

[lofty bay]

hi, i'm an infra engineer, helping companies with delivery pipelines et al. Interested in trying dagger in Go with GEMINI_API_KEY https://github.com/kaihendry/dirk

I also have a YT channel https://www.youtube.com/kaihendry

[near storm]

Welcome! And nice use case 🙂 How's it going so far?

[lofty bay]

Bit stuck trying to try the newish LLM stuff #agents message

[sage void]

Hi, everyone. My name is Everaldo Gomes, I'm from Curitiba, Parana, Brazil. I have a BSc in Computer Science and MSc in Informatics, from a local federal university UFPR. I don't work with CI/CD, usually I work with Ruby on Rails. But I got very interested on Dagger because of the LLM Agents. Great tool, congrats!

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! I saw that you posted your first question in https://discord.com/channels/707636530424053791/1326978746703548416 already, which is great! Looking forward to seeing what you build.

[sage void]

Hi! Thanks. I have a very small Youtube channel, but for now I'm posting just in Portuguese. I'm building an FFMPEG Agent, as a toy project
https://github.com/mestre-everaldo/dagger-ffmpeg-agent (my github is just everaldo, but for this channel I have a dedicated one)

[dim wyvern]

Hi together,
my name is Seppel and I hope I can find some help here from fellow devs to learn how to use dagger properly. 🙂

Looking forward to learn here!

[pallid hearth]

You came to the right place, welcome!

[amber raven]

Hey everyone, my name is Conner and I help run a CNCF chapter up in Canada and am just starting to get my feet wet with Dagger!

I am also apart of a company called Code to Cloud and we are documenting our learning journey with Dagger and have published a few examples using it (amongst other things): https://github.com/codetocloudorg/platform-engineering/tree/main/docs/dagger

Feel free to reach out on LinkedIn and we can nerd out about Dagger there too! https://www.linkedin.com/in/conner-schiissler/

Looking forward to learning from everyone and being apart of the community 😀

[karmic swallow]

Welcome Conner! Checking out your blog as well! Nice 🙂

[granite gyro]

My name is Zafar and I am interested in using Dagger to scaffold my homelab kubernetes on top of Proxmox/Ceph/Linbit/Talos/Terraform/Ansible. Feel free to reach out y'all geeks 🙂

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! Excited to see how it all comes together!

[hazy snow]

Hello My Name is Sean Paul and I am interested in using Dagger to build AI agents for businesses in the professional services industry while also providing opportunities for students to get hands on real word experience.

[pallid hearth]

Sweet! You'll like the https://discord.com/channels/707636530424053791/1326978746703548416 channel. Looking forward to seeing what you build!

Once you have an agent built, let us know; we'd love to highlight it.

[hazy snow]

That sounds great! I plan on joining the hackathon next Thursday. To be frank I believe that it will be somewhat similar to the Offline tutor that Emmanuel made. The hard part is that with the variability of AI even a failure rate of 1~5% at best could introduce far too much variability for it to be a viable business use case. However with the containerization of models I theorize that this platform will make such a practice a viable option for business. A 5% failure rate will cost much more than just 5% of your business. So I just look forward to learning more about the technology and educating myself on its use cases! Thanks for the advice and insight!

[pallid hearth]

We look forward to meeting you at the event, and hacking together!

[wide coral]

👋 I thought I would say HI! here too 🙂
I am Sebastien, French, living in sunny Andalousia/Spain.
I have been following Dagger for quite some time now. Seen it move from one change to another, and getting more and more stable.
Love the product and the general spirit around the project!

[tribal cradle]

Hello! My name is Cory and I'm currently exploring Dagger as a way to replacing an existing CI that resembles a Bash jungle.

Excited about using Code to build CI so that we can add better documentation, reusability, and testing.

Some side interest ing LLM Agents, but that's more personal curiosity at this point.

[median maple]

"Bash jungle" is a new one for me, I love it! 😂

Welcome, excited to see what you build.

[near storm]

https://tenor.com/view/jungle-welcome-vocalist-band-gif-7617009

[vapid junco]

Hi, my name is Nathan, and I'm currently exploring Dagger in order to escape YAML purgatory in CI, and to learn about how it makes for a good workflow engine.

AI agents are just workflow engines + LLMs + feedback, and I'm interested in seeing how to take those to the next level, and I will be attending the SF Hack Night next week.

Nice to meet you all!

[near storm]

Welcome!

AI agents are just workflow engines + LLMs + feedback,

Exactly. That's the key.

See you at the hack night!

[vapid cliff]

hey caitlyn here, creative developer; hoping to find a sane agentic solution

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! Have you tried the Agent Quickstart yet? https://docs.dagger.io/quickstart/agent

Looking forward to your feedback.

[mint inlet]

Hey everyone! I’m Artem, just starting to look into Dagger and really excited to learn more. Looking forward to meeting you all and being part of the community!

[soft coral]

Hey All! I am Vinay. Good seeing some of you at the hackathon. Just familiarizing myself with Dagger. I am a start-up founder trying to building something in the DevOps space. Would love to connect and learn more from this communicty. Here's my LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinaykanchanapally/

[void fossil]

DevOps software engineer from Montreal, Canada, very curious about the dagger tool and all the CI improvements that comes with it.

[little coyote]

Hi,
Thrilled to use dagger !
I'm software engineer at Wakam and working remotely from West indies;

👋

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! Glad to have you here. Can you share more on how you are using Dagger today?

[dark oasis]

Hi
I am Varun,
Senior machine learning engineer at Albertsons.
I enjoy vibe coding, developing new stuff...

I am glad to join here

[heavy drift]

Whatcha building?

[little coyote]

Mainly pipeline CI/CD usage

[dark oasis]

Audio to text conversation agent with fast api

[lethal crest]

Ready to learn everything about Dagger!

[ripe wing]

Welcome! We're around if you need us

[silent dome]

Hello guys, i’m Brayan, Senior DevOps Engineer at PayU.

I came here to learn more about dagger and maybe helps with some contributions

[lost dove]

Hi,
I’m a Senior Software Engineer.
I am mainly doing DevOps for a few years now.
I recently discovered Dagger and I am already a fan.

[near storm]

Welcome!

[unreal lava]

Welcome @lost dove!

#kubernetes and #aws are great channels if you want to see how people are running and scaling Dagger in prod 💪

[pallid hearth]

That is great to hear! What was the "ah-ha" moment for you?

[limpid ginkgo]

Hello, I'm Shoosh. I enjoy hacking together things, building workflows, vintage electronics and 1990s PC gaming. I have been riding one sort of wave after another and been finding my people as time goes on. My only regret is that it has taken so long but I am grateful for the adventures, and hope for many more.

[near storm]

welcome! if you like building workflows you've come to the right place 🙂

do you have a project in mind for using dagger?

[limpid ginkgo]

Some fun things I have been doing is setting up local SDLC with local containers/clusters and gitea. I want to make complex platforms that anyone can run, spin up a platform that would be close to a production level platform, but all local.

The argocd starts out orchestrated with gitea. I wanted to also add crossplane controllers by default and have it work with local stack.

I strongly dislike reinventing wheels and think the world could move so much faster if we could get to the software. Build/release/iterate faster.

Yes Dagger to bring all the disparate CI systems to one common understanding or experience. Bring people together. Even if they started with a different build/orchestration system under the hood.

[near storm]

Love it! You've definitely come to the right place 🙂

[limpid ginkgo]

I'll link to the project I was working on here. I've got to grab some dinner first.

It is pretty cool to run it and it brings up a kind cluster etc. I might change it to k0s, I discovered that recently and like the centralized deployment model if you want quick and dirty local clusters. If the etcd was more robust, or could be external it might work for production workloads. It may be available already but I haven't tried that part.

[limpid ginkgo]

Okay back, going to get the GH repo avail.

[limpid ginkgo]

I'm running it just to make sure all is well. I was using WSL2, then trying PopOS Cosmic. I like it, but some UI things are alpha for sure. Like sharing screens with MS Teams for demos. That's how I got into the conversation about WSL2 and resisting temptation to install anything dev related in windows. I may go back, but for now this is what it is.

[ripe wing]

You might find the k3s module interesting if you're exploring this space https://daggerverse.dev/mod/github.com/marcosnils/daggerverse/k3s@28eea1fcf3b6ecb38a628186107760acd717442f

I'm also passionate about the same topics. Just submitted a kubecon talk that covers a lot of ideas around this space. Fingers crossed that it has a chance to get accepted

[limpid ginkgo]

Speaking of intro I thought I had connected or got the name/badge screenshot of the lady I was talking to about hardware and web serial/webusb yesterday and wanted to share that project and the Bluetooth/PS2 stuff. I can't find it this morning and I am bummed. If anyone has a better memory or less ADHD hyper focus than I do and does remember I really appreciate it.

[limpid ginkgo]

I will check that out I have used microk8s, but it is very snap centric and I didn't like that. Kind doesn't like podman. K0s from last night appears to take more than a couple hours to get running a cluster with containers. When I used it before it was very nice on VMs. Would SSH into them configure, join cluster and report back.

For now I will probably scrap podman for docker and just make sure it's all still working since the time I was developing it. I posted it in the general space. I was going to look for a hardware space to talk about the hardware projects.

[lone onyx]

hey y'all, my name is lee, and i just started playing around with dagger. i was inspired to pick up this tool by listening to an episode of the "ship it!" podcast with @mortal sequoia. i've gone through the first two quickstarts, and haven't really grokked it. using dagger feels... different... powerful... but im not sure use it yet 🙂

i really love the community that y'all have going on! i enjoyed watching the hackathon demos on youtube and excited to check out some of the other videos on the channel.

i took notes of a couple things that i ran into when doing the first two quickstarts. things that i think might help the developer experience. these are just my humble opinions and im sharing them because feedback is important. absolutely no shade from my side :)

• after installing dagger with brew, the first thing i did was run dagger -v. it spit out about 60 lines of error logs because i didn't have docker running. i think it would be less harsh and more efficient to check if docker -- or podman or whatever -- is running before attempting to run a bunch of docker commands. if its not running, display a gentle error message and don't attempt to run docker commands. -> this was literally my first impression with dagger, and it wasn't great.

• after starting up docker, i ran dagger and dropped into the CLI. i somehow didn't see the "type .help for help" message -- there's so much to look at when you are running dagger commands, its easy to miss messages -- so i wasn't sure what to do. i typed "help", which led to an error: "│ ! input: moduleSource local path "help" does not exist". -> i know this isn't a bug, but perhaps the devex could be better for first-time users, or a "did you mean .help?" type of message.

if any maintainers are reading this, i would love to attempt a contribution that addresses the first point. if you think its valid, i can create an issue and work on a PR!

cc @near storm

[heady flint]

Greetings everyone, my name is Arnaud Some, I am a platform engineer and I build platforms designed to run and operate in air-gapped environment using k8s and the control plane and orchestration layer to deploy platform resources needed to deploy SaaS apps. I just ran into @near storm (by the way thanks for the opportunity to snap a picture with you 🙂 ) during the MCP Dev conference and I was impressed by what Dagger can do in maintaining state and isolation in running AI workflows. That left me thirsty to know more...

[limpid ginkgo]

That's awesome. Would be good to collaborate. I started on this platform bootstrap because a long time ago I worked on WebEx for DoD. We had to built out an air-gapped environment to provision and operate the secure size from a simple setup you could scan/verifu and transport into the environment.

[heady flint]

Sounds good. Air-gapped environment use cases are very special and being able to deal with lightweight artifacts and new deployment workflows help greatly in providing a system that is self-reliant and autonomous.

[near storm]

Won't name names but there's at least one successful deployment of dagger in an airgapped environment that I know of, there are still rough edges but it's getting better.

[pallid hearth]

Thanks for sharing this feedback! The entire Dagger team is here, but I've forwarded it to a few individuals to ensure the right people see it.

[pallid hearth]

@lone onyx Could you create an issue for each of these? We can follow up with next steps in GitHub. Thanks!

[civic canopy]

hello everyone. pretty excited to be in this group. Found out about Dagger just today. Was watching a documentary on Kubernetes on Cultrepo- previously honeypot- and there was a short window when they talked about docker, went to find more about who was the mastermind behind docker, and i found out he was working on something pretty amazing. Only curiosity brought me there.Btw i'm Oliver, started the DevOps just some months ago and i believe Dagger could be the next big thing and i hope to start using the tool pretty soone and give my feedback here. 😇 really excited

[near storm]

Ha ha welcome! I should watch that documentary 😛

[civic canopy]

i think you should yeah it's quite amazing to see how you and your team created something this big and literally turned things upside down. So it's a greatttt pleasure to be here. and kind of be part this journey 😇

[lone onyx]

hi miranda 👋
i created an issue for the first point. i think i'll hold off on the second point because i think its probably a me problem 🙂
https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/10488

[glacial canopy]

Hi

[fossil cave]

hi

[pallid hearth]

Welcome @glacial canopy and @fossil cave ! What brought you to the Dagger Discord? We'd love to learn more about your use case and how you found out about us.

Thanks for being here!

[exotic dagger]

hi everyone

[cedar field]

Hi everyone!

[ripe wing]

hola Alberto!

[ripe wing]

hey Welcome!

[pine hawk]

Xin chào!!!

Hello !!!

[spiral sky]

hi.. trying to understand what dagger is about.

[near storm]

welcome! at its core dagger is a programmable workflow engine that runs everything in containers. It allows you to replace brittle scripts with a reliable, portable and modular system that accelerates development instead of slowing it down.

it's especially powerful for growing teams with a diverse tech stack

one superpower is that it runs great locally as well as in CI

[shadow matrix]

hi, i saw an invitation, i accept all invitations, i'm curious

[alpine patrol]

Hi everyone
I'm currently trying to daggerize some apps. It's really cool so far!

[carmine estuary]

Hi

[true axle]

Hi everyone, I'm Evangeline 🙂 I'm at the 🧸 Build-an-Agent Hack Night, excited to meet you guys & build a web scraper agent to integrate into my AI agent networking app tonight!

[sly flame]

Hi. Greg Elin here. Ex-Fed, long time developer. Hope to build an agent to process government contract opportunities this evening

[vapid cliff]

looking to build something weird and fun haha

[worn sentinel]

Hello world, Sacha here from Cape Town South Africa I am looking forward to ending the torture of developers at a client when using bots in Python to extrapolate industrial machine data to a human readable web ui.

[viral forum]

This looks amazing. I’m Gully, a research engineer working with agents for scientific workflows (in biocuration) at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Looking forward to digging into your whole methodology.

[paper pagoda]

Hi, Murthy here based in Bangalore, India. I happend to come across dagger via a podcast and am pretty excited about its use case for developing agents! Looking forward to learning more from the community

[pallid hearth]

Welcome @worn sentinel @viral forum and @paper pagoda ! Thanks for joining us. In case you missed it, we just open sourced Container Use at AI Engineer World's Fair today. Check out the container-use channel to chat about it more. https://github.com/dagger/container-use

[worn sentinel]

Thank you Miranda

[viral forum]

Oh - I'm already evangelizing dagger - I thought Solomon's presentation was the high point of the whole meeting ('Look at me. You are a platform engineer now')

[sacred galleon]

hi

[olive imp]

Hola

[karmic swallow]

Welcome! How'd you find us? 🙂 Got a project underway?

[ripe wing]

hola! bienvenid@

[tulip anvil]

Bonjour ! 👋 Here to learn more about Dagger and maybe implement some modules and pipelines with it 🙂

[flat flame]

Hey! Hello

[mental belfry]

Hello! Found out about Dagger from this Hackernews post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221655. Looking forward to experimenting

bumbledraven

How I program with agents

Hacker News · Jun 9, 2025, 5:30 AM

[crude stream]

Hello, I'm discovering dagger after listening to "la tangente" podcast 🙂

[ripe wing]

Welcome!

[ripe wing]

from this article I've learnt about https://sketch.dev/. Seems like something interesting to integrate with #container-use since it's currently realying on Docker for sandboxing. cc @bleak yacht

[urban cove]

Hello, brand new to dagger and it's super exciting. The first question that comes to mind is, are docker containers sufficiently secure isolation for coding agents from a host workstation? I know multi-tenant systems all use vm's as isolation because containers aren't secure enough, eventually agents might accidentally break the isolation on accident right? Are containers better because GPU is more easily passed through/shared?

[near storm]

It's more accurate to say that multi-tenant systems use containers + VMs.

Building your workflows on containerized primitives is a core architecture decision. How to map containers to VMs is an infrastructure decision that you can make at any time.

[urban cove]

I was only thinking local developer workstation, and isolation of agents locally.

[near storm]

As for "AI escaping the sandbox", I have yet to hear a single example of this actually happening... The use of container+vm combination in production multi-tenant systems has more to do with hostile human users, just like all other multi-tenant systems that execute untrusted code.

[near storm]

Yeah, containers are more than enough.

[urban cove]

Yeah, I guess that was my thought, are containers sufficient isolation if coding agents get really smart, or just do so many random things?

Cool, I'm still super excited to learn and use dagger 🙂

[near storm]

Yes. Especially in the way Dagger implements them: every operation runs in its own ephemeral container, with all inputs and outputs snapshotted and content addressed, and every operation traced. It's a far cry from a single long-running docker container exposed to the internet.

But, you can always run Dagger (and the containers it runs) in a VM at any time, so it's not either-or.

[lethal reef]

Hi just discovered dagger after listening to Solomon on latent space

[tropic drum]

Hi came here from AI Engineering talk by hykes. What is this hack night? When is it. Would love to join

[crisp swallow]

Hello

Same i want to join a hack if possible

[pallid hearth]

Welcome @lethal reef @tropic drum @crisp swallow ! We're working on planning the next Hack Night soon.

[mellow heart]

I came here via Goose.

[near storm]

welcome!

[wicked crest]

Hello, I came here after reading about dagger/container-use repo. I want to know more about it and the community around it 👋🏼

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! Check out the https://discord.com/channels/707636530424053791/1380291254625239060 channel, and watch our container use playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyHqb4A5ee1u5LrsbalfVkBRsrbjDsnN5

Do you have a use case in mind already?

[wicked crest]

Thank you @pallid hearth, I have no use cases yet, I'm still exploring 🙂

[ruby vapor]

👋 hey all - glad to finally land here!! Came here after chatting with Solomon on Open Source Ready!

[near storm]

Welcome! Good to see you here 😁

[topaz scroll]

hey everyone! I'm Arsalan - a DevOps architect who's super excited to learn and adopt dagger. Lets make wonderful things together. 🙋

[pallid hearth]

Welcome to the Dagger community! Can't wait to see what you build 🙂

[sudden mirage]

Hi all! Natraj from Melbourne, AU. Watched Kyle's and Jeremy's session on AI Engineer's YouTube channel yesterday. Seems like an interesting tech to learn.

[calm ravine]

jw from sf via container-use

[lunar mist]

Let's get started. French dev developing chatbot & agent.

[ripe wing]

welcome! 🚢

[fiery saddle]

Hello all, Building a platform for collaborative upskilling. Lets build aswesome things together

[edgy fiber]

Hi Everyone!! Amazing stuff here and I have convinced the powers that be to let me use Dagger on a rather large proj , but boy Im gonna need lots of help so I gotta get busy💯

[ripe wing]

welcome! The fun part begins now 🙌 . We're around if you have any questions!

[scenic raptor]

yo! rafael from munich. stumbled upon the website one day and found it interesting.

[thick bridge]

Hi, Nick from Toronto. Looking to create self-healing agentic workflows.

[languid falcon]

hi, i am dapp from Hong Kong

[ripe wing]

Welcome Dapp!

[pallid hearth]

Welcome everyone! @edgy fiber @scenic raptor @thick bridge , we just announced our first engineering deep dive on July 15th where we'll discuss the need for agentic workflows and take you through exactly how to get started.

We hope to see you there, and if there is any specific "new user" material that you'd like to see, please let us know!

https://dagger.io/deep-dives/agentic-ci

[oak dune]

Hi, I'm building https://enactprotocol.com it will basically enable registering and executing MCP tools on the fly. Any command line tool can be converted to an MCP tool.

This is an open source project with some hard problems to consider so let me know if you're interested. I could use some help 😅

I'm considering leaning heavily into dagger because it sort of solves all my problems. Users will look up command-line tools at https://enact.tools and execute them using dagger.

[ripe wing]

Enact Protocol - AI Tools Made Simple

[stuck granite]

Hi, Gilles from Nantes, France, building plakar.io

[near storm]

Welcome Gilles! So cool to see you here 🙂

[stuck granite]

I want to see what you're building 🫶

[near storm]

Nice, let us know if you have any questions! Also, very interested in ptar 🙂 https://plakar.io/posts/2025-06-27/it-doesnt-make-sense-to-wrap-modern-data-in-a-1979-format-introducing-.ptar/

I wonder how it would compare to the traditional tar+stargz and other fashionable compression schemes for container registries these days?

cc @dense walrus @wet aurora @vast sparrow 👆

[stuck granite]

wow

❤️ ❤️

/me going to blush

further improvements to ptar are going to come in the near future

[dense walrus]

looks neat 😄 would be curious what it looks like in the containerd ecosystem, do you know if anyone has explored it there?

[stuck granite]

Considering we just released the article and the standalone tool to produce it will be published in a few hours, it’s doubtful 😄

[dense walrus]

oh! i hadn't realized that oop! 😛

[restive geyser]

Hey guys!

I'm starting as team lead in greenfield in e-commerce space.
And Im deeply interested to learn about dagger, since I want to build our CI-pipelines with it.

[vast sparrow]

This sounds pretty neat, being able to extract particular files without having to download the entire archive is really nice. Plus bonus points for not having to also provide a separate checksum file 🤓

[clever pier]

👋 Hello, I am Antoine MILLET, VP of Engineering @ Scaleway. Graduated from Epitech since 2009, I worked for Rentabiliweb (8 years), Veepee (8 years) and now Scaleway. Despite being passionate by building cloud platform, I am also a scuba diving instructor (FFESSM, PADI, TDI & SDI) and trimix diver 🤿

[near storm]

Welcome Antoine, great to see you here!

[viral dagger]

Hello! I manage CICD for Cult of the Dead Cow's latest project, Veilid. We currently use Earthly for our build system and are working on migrating to Dagger.

[paper widget]

Jeasus Krisko: Now there is a name I havent heard in a long time... Had to go read the wiki just to remind my self of some history...

If y'all bitches dont know who cDc is... its a strong contender for the grandfather of what we think of as the modern Hacker Culture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow

---

And not to see you bitches on cutting edge of the new DIgital Slave Era ialive and kicking is pretty badass.

I still blame some of your BBS' for getting me grounded for a month -- Long Distance charges were bullshit. How is a 13 year old supposed to know that calling into all those BBS to play trade wars and the Pit going to cost $926!!! (Seriously that was my BBS phone bill one month - and I lost computer for 3 months and was fully grounded for 1 month. (1988)

[viral dagger]

Veilid comes from the same brain that gave the world BO2k and Veracode. We’re about to release v0.5 of the core library along with an updated beta for VeilidChat.

I won’t spam intros with self-promotion, but thank you for the kind words and RIP that old phone bill 😊 (new t-files still posting to the cDc site 😉)

Disclaimer: I am not in cDc, but my wife is 🥵

[outer river]

Hi, my name is Jiaxiao (Joe), and I am a senior software engineer from Microsoft Azure. I work on MCP and agentic workflows security and part of my goal is to design a permission control system for how agent and MCP servers interact with the host system. I join this server because I like container-use. Great to be here and learn from all of you!

[polar flume]

welcome!

[pallid hearth]

Welcome @outer river ! So great to see you here. Thank you for taking the time to meet with us about your CU use case too!

[fathom elk]

hi 🙂 I came across Dagger some time back maybe a few months ago. just got to a stage where i am finaly ready to implement in a few projects and try out some patterns with Dagger I am very excited about.

[near storm]

Welcome! You've come to the right place 🙂 Can you share a little bit about the projects you plan to daggerize?

[hasty tusk]

hi! I heard about the recent mcp container project from Yves and found out about the discord! I've been looking to get more into dagger, but at work I'm not sure how feasible/necessary it'd be with our PHP behemoth -- and usually my side projects are pretty simple 🙂 hoping to step into modern development with dagger eventually though !

[polar flume]

Welcome! 👋 Check out #container-use for more on the mcp server!

[loud epoch]

👋 Welcome! If you have any question regarding Dagger and PHP, #php is the right place 🙂

[crude marsh]

Hi, I guess I'll be mostly in #container-use trying to figure out how to get it to work...

[sleek olive]

Hey! Longtime lurker and part time dagger user here, dotnet developer. Looking to introduce Dagger at work so I thought a work discord acct couldn't hurt 🙂

[near storm]

Welcome 🙂 What does your stack look like? Do you know where you want to start to "daggerize" it?

[sleek olive]

Yeah, I already have a pretty good idea I think, I've been looking at dagger since the cue-days.

I see that the dotnet sdk is still experimental (we are using dotnet and typescript) so I guess the default choice would be typescript for us. I'm gonna fiddle around a bit with all the new tooloing and see where I end up. Most likely the biggest issue will be handling MITM SSL cert for security purposes.

Also, thank for the nice chat we had during your presentations at Kubecon EU!

[ripe wing]

Hey there! Corporate SSL certs shouldn't be an issue. Lots of users here are running Dagger in their orgs under similar conditions. We're around if you need any help there

[versed moon]

Hi folks, joining from Ireland. Im primarily looking at using dagger as an execution system for a CI server for game development, and other random things.

[zenith vigil]

Hello all, I'm Wouter from The Netherlands. OpenShift platform engineer with a strong focus on SRE. Started with Dagger last week to see how it can help improve our CI experience

[barren carbon]

Hello all, I'm Youth from The Netherlands. Devops Engineer, heard of dagger, looking to explore it capabilities around GH actions and see how it can improve our existing flows.

[pale fractal]

Hey y'all! Jim Crowley from CircleCI. Interested in learning more about Dagger and how it works with CI/CD pipelines!

[silver rover]

Hello folks, I'm Marco from Germany. Exploring Dagger for my build pipeline.

[ripe wing]

welcome Marco! we're around if you have any quesitons!

[sly lava]

Hi, I am Andrew, I am just starting over now with AI development, don't really know much about proper software dev methodologies - looking to build something neat using them - TDD, release early/often, CI etc. I've allocated a dedicated mini-pc for this and am looking around for how to get started - would appreciate any pointers. Some interests are - formal methods applied to containers and agentic software (safety) verification, building out AI agents for packaging/containerizing existing open source software en masse (https://frdcsa.org), integration with PrologCyc and other such KBS tools ( sort of like this?: https://frdcsa.org/~andrewdo/writings/claude-assisted-drafts/agentic_opencyc.pdf ), and applying large software repositories to the problem of daily life planning (https://freelifeplanner.org/doc), and AI (for its own sake) development. Would love to team up with and/or learn from others who have a head start in this space. TY!

[toxic osprey]

I'm Asher. looking for new exciting cicd...

[karmic swallow]

Love to hear what you hope to build and where the "old boring" stuff didn't cut it 😉 Welcome!

[stiff pulsar]

Hello! I'm evaluating migrating https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway/blob/main/Earthfile to dagger.

Headway is a "host your own maps" stack composed of several different services. Each service requires their own built artifacts (map tiles, routing graphs, geo search database) compiled from public data like OpenStreetMap. Some of these build tasks are quite large and can take 24hr+ for a planet build.

I'm considering migrating from Earthly because that project seems to have lost the attention of its primary developers, but also there were some things about their model that were a challenge for me. Most notably, the lack of a "real" programming language in the orchestration. I really appreciate that the orchestration in dagger is just a "normal" programming language.

The flip side to Earthly's less-than-normal programming language syntax was that it made it very easy to migrate from "a bunch of docker files" to a build system. Incorporate existing Dockerfiles and docker compose configurations from upstream projects made some things easier which I'm struggling with in dagger.

I'm posting in #1030538312508776540 as I hit walls. Thanks for your responses so far!

[pallid hearth]

Welcome! We've been working very closely with the Earthly team to ensure a smooth transition for their users. https://dagger.io/blog/earthly-to-dagger-migration

We look forward to helping you with the transition as well. cc @median maple

[tame latch]

Hello, I'm Rafa, a senior developer with 24 years of experience from Spain living in Bournemouth, UK. Currently trying to figure out how to work with AI assistants. I quite like Dagger, and I'm planning to use it for CI on the project I'm working on. I'm already working with Container Use and it's really good.

[dense walrus]

heya, welcome rafa! i was just in bournemouth visiting my sister this last weekend, she actually lives in poole 😄

what's the project you're working on that you'd be picking up dagger for? (if you can say!)

[tame latch]

Ah, cool. Give me a shout next time

[tame latch]

It's a Niche-focused review aggregation directory websites with AI-generated content synthesis. It's meant to be a tool to gather the content of all reviews, forum threads, PRs, reddits, etc about each product on a given niche and put it together citing all the sources.

[rancid thunder]

Hi, I am an AI engineer from Delhi, currently learning to build AI Agents and products around Agentic AI, currently building with dagger.

[waxen musk]

Hello there, i'm GTG.
I'm 25 years network & system engineer (among others things like IaC ^^). I'm here to learn the futur of automation !

[ripe wing]

Welcome! we're around if you have any questions or want to chat about what you're working on 🙌

[cloud merlin]

👋 Hi everyone!

I’m really excited to be here and become part of the Dagger community! 🚀
I recently got the chance to speak at PyCon India 2025, where my talk was focused on Dagger (with a touch of Ruff) and how it can make CI/CD pipelines not just more efficient, but also a lot more fun to work with. 🎤✨

I’m super thrilled to keep learning, contributing, and sharing ideas here. If there are any community guidelines, contribution paths, or interesting modules/projects that would be good for me to look into, I’d really appreciate some pointers from the folks around. 🙏

Looking forward to building, learning, and collaborating with all of you.

[near storm]

Hello and welcome! I heard about your talk, now I have to go watch the recording 🙂

We can put together a few resources for you. There are many opportunities to participate & contribute. Thank you for offering 🙏

[pallid hearth]

So happy to see you here, and good luck at your talk! For anyone reading this, you can see the link to her talk here.

[potent spruce]

Hi everyone, I'm as excited as everyone being a member in this community and I really don't know what took me so long😁 I have been using Dagger here and there mostly for IaC pipelines and recently some AI stuff that I try to write about as I keep discovering things at https://blog.techdecline.dev/blog/?q=dagger.

[pallid hearth]

So happy to have you here!

[opaque siren]

Hi Y'all,
Rake here.
All around nerd, security freak, solutions architect and strategic consultant.

[strong coral]

Hi

[ripe wing]

Hello!

[mystic scaffold]

👋

[ripe wing]

welcome! nice to have you around. Looking forward to reading what ideas tinkering with Dagger come up!

[delicate lintel]

👋 sup, current earthly user here trying out dagger 🙂

[ripe wing]

👋 welcome! we're around if you have any questions

[mystic scaffold]

👋

[fickle badge]

Hi... I write PRs for GitHub CI and Spelling. I've written two so far https://github.com/dagger/dagger/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Ajsoref+is%3Aclosed and have one pending: https://github.com/check-spelling-sandbox/dagger/pull/1 but I'm currently tripping on CI being horribly broken: https://github.com/check-spelling-sandbox/dagger/actions/workflows/daggerverse-preview.gen.yml?query=is%3Afailure

[rustic star]

Hey y'all -- just came back from SF CTO Club where @near storm did an awesome demo and talk and finally decided to join this community (althought I lurked around Dagger for quite some time). Got tons of questions -- will ask them in proper channels 😉

A few things about myself -- I'm a CTO at company that is building world’s first fully open source AI Accelerator chip (based on RISC-V cores of our own design as one does of course!) aimed at Edge Computing AI types of applications. We are also heavily investing in AI Inference Server side (think optimizing docker model... ).

[near storm]

Great to see you here, thanks for the fun discussion today!

[severe owl]

Hello! I'm Fredrik, I work as a software engineer and currently trying to swap out my team's build pipelines based on Azure DevOps + Jenkins to a more CI agnostic pipeline with Dagger. Loving it so far.

[near storm]

Welcome! We're here to help.

[quaint summit]

hi all, you can call me cheeseburger. dagger is promising. im looking for a way to run dagger in a closed network (with internal registry etc)

[worthy vale]

Hey all! I am trying dagger.io while migrating from kaniko! My PC is on NixOS + podman got some issues already 😰 https://canary.discord.com/channels/707636530424053791/1417861965841436783

[worthy vale]

Dagger has been very good so far! No more kaniko and ugly sh files in our repository; just took half a day 😁

[urban fog]

Hello there! Long time PHP/Symfony dev, started to use Dagger and I saw the light here, so here I am 😉

[near storm]

welcome 🙂

[stable wind]

hi harsh this side

[tawny maple]

Hi everyone,

I’m a freelance DevOps engineer with 6 years of experience. I design and operate software factories for large IT departments, helping organizations industrialize development processes, automate deployments, and secure platforms to improve productivity, reliability, and agility.

Currently, I’m working on a new CI/CD platform where we are trying to deploy Dagger at scale in Kubernetes clusters with dynamic scaling. All Dagger commands are triggered from GitLab CI runners.

Excited to be part of this community and looking forward to learning, sharing, and collaborating!

[ripe wing]

welcome @tawny maple We're around if you have any questions. We have an extensive experience deploying Dagger withing Kubernetes so feel free to reach out in case there's anything you'd like to get more info on. cc @unreal lava

[hasty wagon]

Hi y'all!

I'm interested in learning more about Dagger and how I can use it to help spin up ai agent pods on a dev cluster for tacking issues or features in GitLab repos.

I'm into bicycling and eating. 😉

Scott

[hollow plume]

I’m exploring how Dagger can help automate CI/CD agents and AI agents to streamline development workflows and accelerate feature delivery.

Sumit

[agile drum]

hi im exploring using dagger to run AI agents in isolated environments

[ripe wing]

welcome! we're around if you have any questions

[misty plume]

Yow, been daggin' for ages, but only tried Dagger today. Very excited!

[near storm]

welcome 🙂

[misty plume]

Inspired by a podcast episode you were on. https://pca.st/episode/fabe4e94-dbf9-4f1e-97ac-98ff45b867ce

[brave bloom]

More Dagger Please ! Brian Douglas Has Arrived. Super Excited To Be Here.🤙

[ebon spoke]

Still earning my dagger swagger, but enjoying it so far. IMO this is very useful to have the ability to write actual code in a pipeline - been silently suffering with YAML functions for too many years now. Thank you!

[near storm]

Thanks for the kind words! We have some fun improvements in flight, should be a major improvement to the experience.

[stuck bison]

Hola from Colorado! I am a data engineer by day and agentic coder by night. learned about container-use today and I am intrigued as i was just about to start working on techniques using git worktrees for safe multi-agent development; git worktrees are amazing. however, container-use is ready to go. quick question: can my coding agent create container-use containers for subagents?

[bleak finch]

Hi Everyone! I'm a Software Engineer from the PH and "container-use" brought me here! Neat stuff!

[wooden trail]

Hey Everyone, I’m Engineering Lead for Financial Services apps, having a lot of experience on platform side + app development and looking forward to see the difference Dagger can make in new ways of working, particularly with the Agentic apps

[maiden sphinx]

Hello, just looking to learn how others using Dagger, currently a DevSecOps engineer.

[worthy salmon]

Hi, I'm a software engineer eager to learn about dagger. I'll try it to write and improve CICD pipelines 🙂

[near storm]

Welcome!

[wet tapir]

Good evening/day Everyone, my name is Parrish but I also go by Milez. I’m a DevOps Engineer Lead for a food service company and I come from the platform engineering part of the house. I came across Dagger watching Solomon Hykes’s talk with Bret Fisher and it got me back inspired again Agentic AI but for CI/CD and DevOps as a whole. Along with at some point presenting it to my team. I look forward to being in communion with you all and assisting in either improving or even better learning from you all on how to really implement Agentic DevOps into our world. Gratitude🙏🏾

[near storm]

Welcome Parrish! Thanks for joining us. Feel free to ask any question, big or small!

[tawdry hull]

Aloha all. Brandon here. I've been looking for ways to better isolate and execute software from third parties. Recently came across Dagger and am looking forward to diving in!

[small turtle]

Hello, my name is Nahuel, tyring out zed I found out about container-use

[lyric matrix]

Hello I’m new here

[lilac wren]

/hello

[upbeat current]

Howdy! Ray Kao here. I work at Microsoft/GitHub as a Solution Engineer (Azure Global Black Belt Team). Really interested in Dagger for both CI/CD and AI Agents.

working on adding GitHub Copilot (GHCP) as an LLM provider. I have an example/demo module right now that wraps the GHCP CLI in a container created by dagger and now attempting work backwards and add it as a core LLM Provider in-lieu of a proper SDK for GHCP

[tranquil sluice]

hi

[remote swan]

Hi

[solid hinge]

Hey all, name's Michael G. I work at a startup, visionbyscope.com, as Head of AI and did a quick POC to rewrite our CI in dagger and that worked great. Looking to just understand more about how others are thinking about dagger. Definitely got influenced by that HN article from way back when.

[solid hinge]

There was some podcast, too, maybe software engineering daily? Either way, the marketing worked on me!

[polar flume]

Welcome!

[still dagger]

Hey all, My name is William, i work in Fintech as DevSecOps. Im lookng to learn more about this community and how you all use it in day-to-day workflows. I came here from Solomon's video on YT.

[ebon arch]

Hi, name is Donut I've been a dev for 30 years. 2 years unemployed, time to get back n track!

[glass kestrel]

Hey - I'm Sean, I the insurance industry, doing some POC work around DevEx and dev AI enablement

[cosmic smelt]

hello, veteran dev here 🙂

[limpid kayak]

hello all - I am Faisal. Working as SRE for NowBookIt. Here to learn and stay up to date with Dagger.

[opal glen]

Hello

[swift phoenix]

Hey hey all, platform engineer checking in here. Excited to see how we can leverage Dagger for our CI platform.

[near storm]

welcome everyone!

[undone atlas]

Hi Developer, trying to learn dagger for microservice architecture

[ripe wing]

welcome @undone atlas !

[vital mural]

Hi everyone

[outer vault]

Hello 👋

[novel cave]

Hi everyone!

[ripe wing]

Welcome!

[ripe wing]

welcome! curious about what you're using or looking to use Dagger for 👀

[uncut topaz]

Container-Use

[dull gyro]

Hello all

[potent osprey]

HI

[potent sandal]

Hello everyone. I have come here for CUE stuff if anyone is still doing that even though it got decoupled from dagger.

[ripe wing]

You might find interesting what @proven wasp is working on.

[potent sandal]

ty!

[rugged dirge]

Hello, looking to contribute

[foggy wing]

Hello Everyone 👋

[silk pendant]

Hey there folks 👋

[stable fulcrum]

Hey folks! I actually found this project from tiktok @Someone - our stack is C# front end (Unity) and I was hoping to migrate away from groovy in Jenkins (the only person who knows groovy is me ).

[near storm]

You've come to the right place 😁 Welcome

[neon quarry]

Heyhey!
Was searching for a solution to be able to run my apps docker-compose full env in an isolated env - both locally for parallelization and ideally in the cloud so that I can easily verify flows & integration/e2e tests.
Bah, that was longer than I wanted, anyways, this project sounds cool!

[gleaming lance]

Hi everyone, I am a full-stack dev (author of React Starter Kit, 23k stars on GH), based in Italy, looking for interesting projects to collaborate on. I found about Dagger as a way to solve determenistic AI workflows problem I'm also currently solving, just at application level.

[near storm]

welcome! Don't hesitate to ask any question!

[median birch]

Hello! I'm a fractional CTO at a few startups and am interested in learning about Dagger. Most of my startups lean heavily to Kotlin and Java, with a mix of other languages like Python and Rust for specialized use cases. A few are building mobile apps which are primarily written using Kotlin multiplatform for shared business logic across Android and iOS, and in one case shared UI code as well. I'm very interested in seeing how Dagger and Dagger cloud can help me improve the CI pipelines for these companies.

[patent mortar]

Greetings. I'm an engineering manager interested in Dagger as a productivity tool in our infrastructure to help improve and future proof our existing deployment strategy. I'm very interested in migrating our existing pipelines to use Dagger, then integrate the new AI solutions.

[polar flume]

welcome @median birch and @patent mortar 👋 ! You'll probably find a lot of the relevant discussion in #general and #daggernauts and some getting started info here https://docs.dagger.io/. Feel free to ask about anything you're stuck on or any feedback on friction! And if you're interested in what we have coming soon for a fully managed dagger-native CI platform, DM me or @near storm for a demo 🙂

[next fable]

hello yall! Pietro from mcp-use 🙂 we met Solomon tonight

[dusk finch]

Hello here 👋 (I think this is my second hello after a long time).
Backend developer at Zenika and a big fan of GitLab CI (I am a GitLab Hero since over 6 years and the organizer of the GitLab France community 🇫🇷 ) BUT I followed Dagger news since a long time, never took time to try it but 2026 seems like the perfect time to change that, right?

[chilly bridge]

Hello here ! I'm Sami, an SRE/DevOps Engineer based in France.
I follow Dagger project since many years now, and had met the team in person during KubeCon 2024 in Paris, but somehow, I never took the time to join this Discord, as I never had the opportunity to work on (and with) Dagger.

Recently, I used it for a personal project, and reused my code blocks to try to create Dagger modules and agents, mainly focused on Google Cloud Platform compatibility as it is my main field of expertise. I just open-sourced the work I have done during the last months, it is still a work in progress but my goal is to reliably maintain those modules, with hope that eventually they will be "prod-ready" enough to implement Dagger in my own company, and if they can be useful to other companies working on GCP, it would be even greater !

I would be glad to learn from your experience and feedbacks on Dagger to enhance my own implementation !

See you around 🙌 🙏

https://github.com/telchak/daggerverse

[ancient terrace]

Hi there. Per (pronounced "pair") from Sweden. Have been using Dagger with GitHub a couple of months, member of a DevOps team at the corporation I work at.
We do create dagger modules to be used as building blocks in workflows.
Need to learn more about Dagger so using this forum looks like a good idea.

[near storm]

welcome!

[azure drift]

Hello, I'm a DevOps engineer from South Korea, focused on Go and Rust. I'm currently migrating my Rust project's CI/CD to Dagger and here to learn how others are using it.

[subtle chasm]

Hello, I'm a dev/sre engineer from Switzerland. I am a long term container enthusiast and use them everywhere (devcontainer, podman quadlets, ai-agents). I am currently using/playing with Dagger on my own projects and I am really happy with the results. I plan to present Dagger during our internal TechTalks as a nice/better alternative to Earthly

[near storm]

Welcome! One of the maintainers of Dagger, @vast sparrow was also a core developer of earthly, in case you want to discuss similarities & differences between the two projects.

[coral ibex]

hello, Moetez Head of KymaFLow project. looking to integrate dagger instead of tekton/buildah as OCI container core engine and CI

[obtuse sundial]

.

[errant hawk]

Hello, I'm BinBin working on https://smolmachines.com/. I built a virtual machine that has speed and ergonomics of a container (<200ms coldstart, portable, etc..)

I am looking to experiment with dagger.

[ripe wing]

welcome BinBin! have any ideas on what you'd like to experiment with particularly?

[ripe wing]

just realized you're based in Seattle. @wet aurora which is also into all things runtimes and low-level implementation also happens to be around that area. You should definitely connect 🙌

[errant hawk]

yeah, i'm building a container replacement with an custom lightweight virtual machine.

I'd love to see if I can replace container/docker daemon dependency for dagger tbh.

(I am aware dagger is made by docker founder + founding team) 😄

[ripe wing]

sweet. One small clarification: Dagger doesn't depend on the docker daemon to work. It's packaged as an OCI artifact mostly as a convencience since it depends on some other binaries and libraries to work and running the engine in an OCI runtime it's the most accessible way. It could also be packaged in some other alternatives like Flatpak for example but the OCI spec is more widely adopted.

One area where I see an interesting intersection between smol and Dagger is the runc runtime itself. Dagger currently leverages on runc to run the containers it manages so having a VM like alternative to that runtime might be quite appealing for users that require higher isolation guarantees.

[errant hawk]

ahh i see, so the current world is dagger engine -> runc -> container?

[ripe wing]

yes, pretty much

[errant hawk]

neat, seems like i got it working: https://github.com/smol-machines/dagger-smolvm

was pretty straight forward to build the module out

[ripe wing]

Smol and Dagger

[mental vault]

Hi

[eternal charm]

Hi.
I'm a front/back dev from Brazil.
And do CI/CD too.
I'm trying Dagger because I need to do all on premise and trying to simplify our current CI/CD.
What peeked my attention is the possibility to codefy "all the things" .
Checking if I can do requests, code logic and status check all in code instead of relying on crazy bash/sh logics.

[ripe wing]

Olá Mateus! you're in the right place. Feel free to ping if you have any questions or if you just want to brainstrom some ideas on your Dagger use-case. There's a vibrant community of other fellow Daggernauts here

[rancid tapir]

Hey I'm working with @ruby vapor and sorting out Dagger for our CI/CD!

[lilac gate]

Hi everyone, I am Pawel from Poland. I work in DevOps area and recently I have been exploring Dagger in my PoC related to build pipelines and reproducible environments. Glad to be here 🙂

[worn seal]

Hi everyone! I'm building my re-building company's CI playbook. I have Dagger setup running nicely on Github runners, but want the cache so was setting up Depot runners. Alas, Dagger on Depot has been retired, so I'm here hoping to get early access to Cloud Engines (https://dagger.io/changelog/#cloud-engines)

[near storm]

Welcome! DMing you now 🙂

[civic swan]

yooo

[tranquil crest]

Hey Dagger community!

I'm excited to share dagger-zig I have been working on a native Zig SDK.
Write a native Zig SDK for building Dagger CI/CD pipelines :

const dagger = @import("dagger_sdk");

const output = try dagger.client()
    .container().from("alpine")
    .withExec(&.{"echo", "Hello from Zig!"})
    .stdout();

Features:

• Native Zig (no runtime, comptime-optimized)
• Full Dagger GraphQL API
• C bindings (libdagger.a/.so/.dylib)
• Cross-platform: Linux/macOS x64+ARM
• Aspiring to SLSA Level 3, signed releases, SBOMs

Need feedback on:

• API design — does it feel Zig-native?
• Missing features you'd need
• Use cases / adoption blockers

[near storm]

cc @past bear 😃

[near storm]

Thank you very much for the contribution @tranquil crest ! It looks very promising, I love that you already have support for module runtimes, not just generating client bindings. Really cool.

[wanton willow]

Hi! I'm Scott. I've been a GH member for 15+ years and am ready to start the next wave

[ripe wing]

Welcome!

[wicked zenith]

Hey everyone. I'm the sole founder/operator of a small SaaS startup in Ukraine serving 1000+ users in production for the last 5 years. Recently I've been wrestling with trying to deploy my PHP Laravel app on different platforms: docker, baremetal servers over SSH/ansible, Claude/Codex web with "setup scripts", private devcontainers running on an old Ubuntu laptop, etc. and I can't seem to figure out how to build a single deployment pipeline that works across all of the above. Ansible is slow and clunky. Docker doesn't work everywhere because not all platforms support Docker-in-Docker (such as Codex Web or Fly.io). Docker Compose is not flexible enough for me. Stumbled on Dagger on HackerNews and my first reaction was "wow this looks exactly what I'm looking for". I'm looking for a single way to define build/deploy/CI scripts that work everywhere: in devcontainers, on baremetal servers, in Docker, in cloud providers, on my Macbook, on my old Ubuntu laptop, on Fly.io, etc.... that would be the dream, and I'm wondering if Dagger can help me achieve that!

[ripe wing]

hi, welcome Isa! Dagger is exactly designed for that. I'd drop by the #php channel and ask there if someone might have some Laravel module experience so you can start your journey with Dagger along with someone that might streamline some things for you.

In the case of feeling a bit lost with anything, we're around to help

[lilac kernel]

hey everyone, i'm working at typesafe ai with @mild flame who introduced us to dagger

[ripe wing]

👋 Welcome! Let me invite you to the typesafe channel

[hollow sphinx]

.

[sturdy umbra]

Hi, I have a lot of experience dealing with building ci/cd in GitHub actions. About to take a new role where I'll be building more advanced deployments as part of my job as the infra/app security hire and dagger looks like it solves so many of the problems I had with trying to treat ci as reusable software so very excited

[near storm]

Welcome! Heads up we're getting ready to release major improvements to the UX and docs. So if you find onboarding too complex and confusing, 1) please let us know! 2) please give it another chance in 2-3 weeks 🙂

[twilit juniper]

Hi guys, I'm Gian, from Argentina, I'm using dagger for my academic projects

[ripe wing]

Hola Gian! @unreal lava y yo somos de Argentina también!