A universal deployment engine (Ship It! #23)

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In today’s episode, Gerhard is talking to Sam Alba, Docker’s first employee, and Solomon Hykes, the Docker co-founder. Together with Andrea Luzzardi, they are the creators of Dagger, a universal deployment engine that trades YAML for CUE, and uses Buildkit as the runtime.

Why? Because we should stop rewriting the same application deployment logic in scripts, makefiles or continuous delivery configuration. That’s right, this is the YAML vaccine that we have all been waiting for.

Gerhard believes that one day, Dagger will become just as meaningful for application delivery, as Docker is today for application code.

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Featuring:

• Sam Alba – Twitter, GitHub
• Solomon Hykes – Twitter, GitHub
• Gerhard Lazu – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Dagger docs - request early access via dagger.io
• Introducing Buildkit - 2017 - Tõnis Tiigi
• Learn about CUE’s theoretical basis and what makes it different
• 🎙 CUE: Configuration superpowers for everyone | GoTime #163
• 🎬 Hands-on Introduction to Dagger | Rawkode Live
• 🎙The Return of Docker/Dagger’s Solomon Hykes | POPCAST #75

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!