Accelerate Your Development and CI/CD Pipelines with Dagger

Márk Sági-Kazár

2025-05-05 @ Cloud Native Days Romania

`whoami`

Márk Sági-Kazár

Cloud Native Ambassador

Dagger Commander

YAML engineer for life 😭

@sagikazarmark

https://sagikazarmark.com

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Agenda

Introduction
Module 1: Getting to know Dagger
Module 2: Let’s Daggerize
Module 3: Working with modules
Module 4: Integrating with GitHub Actions
Module 5: Publishing artifacts
Q&A

CI/CD today

…aka the pain we all know

Day 1…

…how it starts 😃

name: CI

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]

jobs:
  build:
    name: build the software
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - run: |
          build
          test
          lint

Day 101…

…760 lines of YAML & Bash 😟

# Foobar pipeline
# Include the Common CI pipeline parameters.
include:
  - project: 'foo/bar/foobarproject/cicdtemplate'
    file: '/Common.gitlab-ci.yml'
  #- /force-app/ui-tests/pipeline.yml

stages:
  - build-metadata-package
  - run-js-tests
  - validate-package
  - deploy-package
  - run-unit-tests
  - run-api-tests
  - run-ui-tests
  - integration

####################################################
# Builds the Metadata Package, builds the Package
# files and Destructive changes
####################################################
build-metadata-package:
  stage: build-metadata-package
  except:
    ...

Push and pray 🙏

Developer environment

brew install go
brew install golangci-lint

make build
make test
make lint

CI/CD environment

- uses: actions/setup-go@v5
  with:
    go-version: "1.24.0"

- run: go build .
- run: go test -race -v ./…

- uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v7
  with:
    version: "v2.0.0"