Dagger in a GitLab CI pipeline: assessment
I evaluated Dagger against a monorepo running 2,000 CI jobs a month, separating pipeline changes from the runner, cache, and hardware constraints that remain.
Development#dagger#gitlab#ci-cd
_EXPERIMENTAL_DAGGER_CACHE_CONFIG is inert in Dagger 0.21
A source trace explains why Dagger's BuildKit cache bridge works on 0.20.1, disappears in 0.21, and leaves type=gha with no effect.
Development#dagger#caching#buildkitPractical cache strategies for ephemeral Dagger CI
A decision guide to persistent engines, host-side cache bridges, registry proxies, and cold execution after Dagger 0.21 removed BuildKit remote export.
Development#dagger#caching#ci