Dagger is a powerful, programmable CI/CD engine designed to run pipelines within containers, both pre-push on a local machine and post-push in a CI environment. This open-source tool replaces complex CI scripts with a more flexible and programmable platform, making use of containerized pipelines. Dagger ensures pipeline portability, promising that if a pipeline works on a developer's laptop, it will work in any CI environment.
The engine leverages standardized Dagger Functions that can be reused and chained together, built either by individual teams or the community. This approach simplifies the creation and maintenance of pipelines, reducing the need for repetitive coding. Dagger also optimizes performance by caching to avoid unnecessary rebuilds and test reruns, significantly speeding up the CI/CD process.
Dagger supports multi-language pipelines, allowing developers to write pipelines in the same language as their applications. It offers tools to visualize pipelines, providing interactive debugging and visibility into every pipeline aspect, helping to identify and resolve issues efficiently.
The platform is trusted by various companies for its capability to streamline deployment processes, reduce build times, and enhance overall CI/CD efficiency. Testimonials from users highlight its impact on improving deployment speed, simplifying processes, and enabling frequent, reliable software shipping.
Pricing
Dagger Cloud offers three pricing plans: Individual (Free) for 1 user with pipeline visibility and debugging; Team ($50/month after a 2-week trial) for up to 10 users with additional experimental distributed cache service and operational insights; Enterprise (Custom pricing) for large-scale support and confidence. Each plan includes pipeline/function logs, function call traces, and pipeline cache visibility. The Team plan adds a 1-month cache retention and access to global cache storage across 26 regions. Operational insights, centralized telemetry, and run history vary by plan, with the highest level of support and features available in the Enterprise plan.