The Dagger Is a Tool, but It's Also an Engine, Right?
Dagger is two things, right? I it's a tool, but it's also an engine. The engine is kind of inside, and it has es all these capabilities. And then around it is tool. All that stuff is the wrapper around the engine. Either you start from the tool, and then you iterate, and you basically lmost fake it. You're investing too much in the engine in the back end, and probably yougoing to throw it all away. Because you don't really know what's needed. That's the normal, correct, proper, common sense way of filling a rug. And th it's the other way, which is that you're actually invent
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In this episode we talk about launching Dagger with all four founders: Andrea, Eric, Sam & Solomon.
While you may remember Sam & Solomon from episode 23, this time we assembled all four superheroes in this story and went deeper, covering nearly three years of refinements, the launch, as well as the world-class team & community that is coming together to solve the next problem of shipping software. Container images and Kubernetes are great steps in the right direction, but now it’s time for the next leap into the future.
You can use Dagger to run your CI/CD pipelines locally, without needing to commit and push. You can also use Dagger as a Makefile alternative, which resonates with Gerhard, but go further and your perspective on documentation & automation may start shifting.
Gerhard believes that this is the Docker moment of CI/CD.
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