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
Dependency caching belongs at the registry layer, not the package store
Caching the package manager store treats a symptom. A pull-through proxy registry is the layer where cross-runner dependency caching actually compounds.
Development#caching#nexus#platform-engineering_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#ciTypeScript 7 is fast, but the Compiler API is gone. Here is what that breaks.
The Go rewrite delivers 10x faster type-checking. It also removes the programmatic API that eslint, Dagger, and every framework template type-checker depends on.
Development#typescript#eslint#daggerSelf-Contained mise in Dagger: Eliminating Tool Version Drift
Committing a self-contained mise bootstrap, mounting persistent cache volumes in Dagger, and enforcing the lockfile everywhere so mise.toml is the only source of truth for the toolchain.
Development#mise#dagger#ciDagger's TypeScript SDK doesn't understand pnpm catalog:
Dagger modules install in isolation with a generated pnpm-workspace.yml that has no catalog. The project root's workspace file is never read.
Today I Learned#dagger#pnpm#ciAdding Dagger CI to a Polyglot Monorepo
Porting my Dagger module to a repo with a uv Python service and pnpm frontends broke the lockfile-first cache trick, because uv builds the project at install time and pnpm does not.
Development#dagger#ci#pythonAdding Dagger CI to an Astro Blog
One container, ten checks, local/CI parity, and three bugs that taught me how Dagger works.
Development#dagger#ci#astro