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Dagger (YC W19) — Develop your CI/CD pipelines as code and run them anywhere

Dagger is a programmable CI/CD engine that runs your pipelines in containers. Develop your pipelines as code, in the same programming language as your application.

Dagger is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2019 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Develop your CI/CD pipelines as code and run them anywhere. The founder listed is Solomon Hykes (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, April 4, 2022).

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Dagger

New accelerator entry · 2022-04-04 · the record

Winter 2019
batch
22
people
Early
stage
United States of America
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BatchWinter 2019
Announced2022-04-04
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size22
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
SectorsDeveloper Tools, DevSecOps
RegionsUnited States of America, United Kingdom, France, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Portugal, America / Canada, Europe, Latin America, Remote, Fully Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA; London, England, United Kingdom; Seattle, WA, USA; Portland, OR, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France; Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina; Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia; Vancouver, WA, USA; Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay; Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal; Remote
HiringNo
Sitehttps://dagger.io
Previously known asElastic Ledger, Blocklayer

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Dagger is a programmable CI/CD engine that runs your pipelines in containers. Develop your pipelines as code, in the same programming language as your application. Choose your SDK and start coding! Dagger executes your pipelines entirely as standard OCI containers. This has several benefits: - Instant local testing - Portability: the same pipeline can run on your local machine, a CI runner, a dedicated server, or any container hosting service. - Superior caching: every operation is cached by default, and caching works the same everywhere - Compatibility with the Docker ecosystem: if it runs in a container, you can add it to your pipeline. - Cross-language instrumentation: teams can use each other's tools without learning each other's language.

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