alt Hacker NewsCan you explain/link to why you can't really use this without their cloud product? I'm not seeing anything at a glance, and this looks useful for a project of mine, but I don't want to be trapped by limitations that I only find out about after putting in weeks of work
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shykes • last Sunday at 6:14 PM
Hi, I'm the founder of Dagger. It's not true that you can't use Dagger without our cloud offering. At the moment our only commercial product is observability for your Dagger pipelines. It's based on standard otel telemetry emitted by our open source engine. It's completely optional.
If you have questions about Dagger, I encourage you to join our Discord server, we will be happy to answer them!
Overall I like Dagger conceptually, but I wish they'd start focusing more on API stability and documentation (tbf it's not v1.0). v0.19 broke our Dockerfile builds and I don't feel like figuring out the new syntax atm. Having to commit dev time to the upgrade treadmill to keep CI/CD working was not the dream.
re: the cloud specifically see these GitHub issues:
https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/6486
https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/8004
Basically if you want consistently fast cached builds it's a PITA and/or not possible without the cloud product, depending on how you set things up. We do run it self-hosted though, YMMV.