OpenMeter wanted a toolchain that eliminated push and pray for developers, made it easy to create standardized environments, and was compatible with DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principles so that they could quickly leverage existing pipelines to create new ones:

"At OpenMeter, we use Dagger to run our programmable CI/CD pipelines in containers. The process includes building and publishing various types of artifacts like Docker images to OCI-compliant registries (GitHub Container registry, etc.)"

Airbyte has an extensive ecosystem of 350 containerized connectors, all of which need to be tested regularly. On average, Airbyte publishes 17 connectors per day and tests 100 connectors per night, both as part of regularly scheduled testing cycles and in response to incoming pull requests. 

Airbyte not only leverages Dagger internally but also enables connector contributors to get a consistent testing environment both locally and in CI thanks to Dagger. "We decided on Dagger because of the expressiveness of being able to do things completely in code. Being able to write things in a more simple, imperative style makes it a lot easier to understand and test."

The Flipt team currently uses Dagger for both build and test phases of their pipelines, handing off to GoReleaser for the release phase.

In the build phase, the Dagger pipeline downloads the application source code, adds required dependencies and build tools, and builds the application. The end result of the build phase is two artifacts: a "test" image with the source code plus build and test dependencies, and a "production" image optimized for distribution.

In the test phase, the Dagger pipeline runs Flipt's complete suite of unit and integration tests, validating the test image against a common set of Flipt operations. In addition to performing complete end-to-end API testing, the pipeline also performs additional tests related to importing, validating and exporting feature flag configurations. These tests are performed against a variety of databases (including Postgres, MySQL and CockroachDB).

The Golang client team was looking for "vendor-independent and locally reproducible CI/CD pipelines so that our contributors can ensure quality before opening the pull requests." One challenge is that they test with several Go versions. Like many users while they were curious about using Dagger, which seemed to fit their needs, they were wary of embarking on a huge all-encompassing change. They decided to take an incremental approach, Daggerizing a few simpler pipelines first, getting feedback from developers and expanding from there.

Tracetest was looking for a better way to onboard their users given that it previously required them to install multiple tools and go through a lengthy and YAML based flow. Additionally, they were also eager to give their users the ability to run their product in a more controlled and unified way across different providers as each of them has its own custom settings that they needed to maintain and test each time they performed a release.

Dagger Modules enabled them to not only deliver a better onboarding flow to their users, but also to encapsulate all the complexity into reusable functions that can now be consistently distributed across multiple runtime environments.

Like many other infra related projects, cdebug was having a hard time coming up with automated tests as it relies on low level infrastructure dependencies like Containerd and Kubernetes which are not usually straightforward to setup reliably in a CI/CD pipeline. All the testing work had to be done manually in the developer's machine, which was error prone and directly affected the speed of iteration of the overall project.

Leveraging Dagger Services, they were able to structure their tests in a way that they can now run complex scenarios both locally and in CI with confidence and delivering the required performance