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Introducing the concept of Dagger in CI/CD

May 25, 2022September 2, 2022Studio-DevOpsDagger, Devops

Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction Dagger is an open-source devkit for CICD. It works using two open-source tools Cuelang and BuildKit from Docker. In addition, architecture is of the same concept as that of docker, Client-Server architecture. But, instead of docker, dagger daemon engine runs on any container runtime. Prerequistes A computer system with any OS with Internet. Docker daemon installed on system Installing Dagger Here we will be Continue Reading

Defining and using the Actions in a Dagger Script

May 24, 2022May 24, 2022Studio-DevOpsDagger, Devops

Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction Dagger is an open source devkit for CICD. It works using two open source tools CUE language and BuildKit from Docker. Dagger uses CUE to script the code and configuration. And Buildkit to provide local containerized environment. Prerequisite Dagger installed on local system. The latest version now is 0.2.10 Docker installed on local system. The latest version now is 20.10.16 What are Actions in Continue Reading

What makes CUE useful in Dagger ?

April 27, 2022September 2, 2022Studio-DevOpsCUE, Dagger, Devops

Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction Dagger is a devkit used in CICD using BuildKit and CUE for platform independent pipeline creation. The language CUE stands for Configure,Unify and Execute. It is a logical configuration language. This means it can create template with scripting as well. We have explore Dagger in this blog. We will see various feature that are useful for Dagger environment in CUE. We will using CUE Continue Reading

Using Dagger with Jenkins in a simple CI pipeline

April 26, 2022September 2, 2022Docker, Jenkins, Studio-DevOpsDagger

Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction Dagger is an opensource devkit for continuous integration, deployment and delivery. It uses the power of BuildKit from docker and CUE to create platform independent deployment and integrations. And Jenkins is a automation server like teamcity, concourse, circle ci, github actions that creates CI/CD pipelines. As we have seen in the blog use of actions in Dagger, we will use them with Jenkins. Prerequisites Continue Reading