2023-09

2023-09-19 Dagger in Action: Restoring Developer Confidence in CI

We’re always interested in hearing how our community is using Dagger – their use cases, their challenges, and their experiences with deploying Dagger in different environments.

Our Discord is a great place to find these stories, and to benefit from the knowledge and experience of the Dagger community.

In this blog post, we’ll share the story of Daggernaut Sean Clayton (aka @clayton9821 on Discord).

Sean recently joined a new company, and was surprised to learn he would be the SME for all its CI pipelines. He had never used GitLab’s CI/CD feature before, but took initiative to make it better .

By switching to Dagger and away from a YAML-based CI workflow, Sean was able to give the development team faster builds and increased reliability, particularly for Maven builds.