The Need for a Unified Platform in DevOps

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And the reason it's terrible is because it's fragmented, lacking a unified platform to connect all the pieces.
Many have attempted to unify the fragmented landscape of DevOps, but most have failed.
The failure of previous attempts is attributed to doing it wrong and not approaching it as a software problem.
It is important to think of the software supply chain as a complex application with a factory that ships code.
To be a true platform, one must function as an operating system, allowing code to be written for it.

This week we’re joined by Solomon Hykes, the creator of Docker. Now he’s back with his next big thing called Dagger — CI/CD as code that runs anywhere. We’re users of Dagger so check out our codebase if you want to see how it works. On today’s show Solomon takes us back to the days of Docker, what it was like on that 10 year journey, his transition from Docker to Dagger, Dagger’s community-led growth model, their focus on open source and community, how it works, and even a cameo from Kelsey Hightower to explain how Dagger works.

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