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Dagger and IaC tools (AWS CDK, Terraform, Pulumi) are very complementary. Here's a livestream of Nic Jackson (devrel at Terraform) using Dagger and Terraform CDK together to build and deploy an application: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFNe5W1o2_U

The main difference is that Dagger focuses on running your entire CI/CD pipeline as a DAG of operations running in containers; whereas IaC tools focus on managing infrastructure state. The typical integration is Dagger would run your IaC tool in a container, and integrate that into a broader pipeline with well-defined inputs and outputs. Dagger itself is stateless except for its cache: infrastructure state management is handed off to your IaC tool.