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by randomtechguy 449 days ago
IMO dagger isn't really comparable to nix.

We tried to fit dagger where we had jenkins - not just for binary builds, but for the other stuff. Mounting secrets for git clones / NPM installs, integration tests, terraform execution, build notifications and logging.

Caching is great, and dagger/nix both have interesting options here, but that's more of a bonus and not the core value prop of a build orchestrator.
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verdverm 449 days ago
Yeah, turning a lot of our Jenkins Groovy into Dagger one-liners. Makes it super easy to "run" CI locally before pushing, but you still need the orchestrator / scheduler. Also really loving the Dagger Cloud UI for build logs over Jenkins UI
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code_biologist 449 days ago
We tried to fit dagger where we had jenkins

"Tried", implying it didn't go well and isn't a fit for replacing Jenkins?

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